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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…
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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…
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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…
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Underpaid Programmers
Capital Versus Labor
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Geographic Compensation Will Lose
I’m your employer. If you live somewhere it costs you $1,000/month to live, then I should pay you less than if you live somewhere it costs you…
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Sooner Versus Longer
Unexpected Incentive Misalignment in a Subscription Book
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Earning to Write, not Writing to Earn
“You’re just doing it for the money.” I’ve heard this criticism of technical ideas since, well, ever. It’s laughable, really. If I was coming up with…
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