Archive - Geek Incentives

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.

Aug 23, 2023 •

January 2023

Sign-up Versus Assignment

An Incentives Perspective

Jan 5, 2023 •

December 2022

The Pie Problem

Once upon a time there was a guild of bakers.

Dec 20, 2022 •

Team Matching Creates Incentives

Buried in this tweet by Gergely Orosz is an interesting quote: “Team matching was very frustrating for hiring managers.”

Dec 19, 2022

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…

Dec 15, 2022 •

Underpaid Programmers

Capital Versus Labor

Dec 6, 2022 •

August 2022

Geographic Compensation Will Lose

I’m your employer.

Aug 10, 2022 •

July 2022

Sooner Versus Longer

Unexpected Incentive Misalignment in a Subscription Book

Jul 15, 2022 •

May 2022

Earning to Write, not Writing to Earn

“You’re just doing it for the money.”

May 17, 2022 •

February 2022

Perverse Incentives of Retrospective Promotions

Feb 25, 2022 •

Obligation: Incentive to Write

Getting paid, even a little, makes a big difference

Feb 1, 2022 •

December 2021

Fixed Equity Grants Become Toxic

Context Changes Incentives

Dec 10, 2021 •

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