Geek Incentives
Kent BeckCreating and maintaining incentives that help geeks do their best work
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 29 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 3 years ago |
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See You Over There
With the advent of Sections on SubStack, it no longer makes sense for me to maintain a separate blog for my incentives work. I have migrated all subscribers & posts to the Incentives section of tidyfirst.substack.com. You can restrict notif...
Sign-up Versus Assignment
Usually I build posts around 1 story but this time I’m going to use 2.
Story 1: I was talking with someone from Boeing who told me how the best mechanical engineers design the wing spars, the most complicated & consequential part of the de...
The Pie Problem
Once upon a time there was a guild of bakers. Bakers belonged to a kitchen and the kitchens belonged to the guild. They were fortunate enough to live in a town simply mad for pies. As soon as they baked a pie it was bought and eaten.
The b...
Team Matching Creates Incentives
Buried in this tweet by Gergely Orosz is an interesting quote: “Team matching was very frustrating for hiring managers.”
Briefly, team matching is the process where hiring an employee is separated from the decision of which team the new em...
Performance Review Incentives
Gergely Orosz’s excellent The Pragmatic Engineer substack recently published a couple of pieces on the performance review process at large tech companies. If you are going to be subject to performance reviews, it makes sense to have a plan...
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