In Which I Address Awards Controversies Slantwise With Stuff Nobody Else Seems To Be Saying

[dr_pretentious]

Come check out my new post on Black Gate. It's an essay on awards and the psychology of motivation, with a studies-have-shown riff about why motivation doesn't work the way most of us have been led to think it does, and a pull-the-wool-over-your-own-eyes riff about preserving self-motivation from stuff that might deplete it.

Comments

[selki.livejournal.com]

I've read about those problems with rewards and motivation for creative activities -- it comes up in Open Source Software and in software engineering circles sometimes. I enjoyed your chewy and witty post.