Archive for January, 2009

Talking Moose

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Back in the 80’s I had this “Talking Moose” program on my Mac. I just ran across a new OS X version of the program. The Moose cracks me up!

http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/moose.htm

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

I just read this interesting article about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and compensation. I had a conversation a lunch today about how hard (or impossible) it is to place a value on development work because it is so subjective. Which is why annual reviews and bonuses always feel so arbitrary. I don’t really have a solution to suggest, just ranting I guess. I do, however have more respect for people who recognize the difficulty of this somewhat paradoxical issue.