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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
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Kent Beck
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January 2023
Sign-up Versus Assignment
An Incentives Perspective
Jan 5, 2023
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Kent Beck
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December 2022
The Pie Problem
Once upon a time there was a guild of bakers.
Dec 20, 2022
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Kent Beck
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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.”
Dec 19, 2022
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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…
Dec 15, 2022
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Kent Beck
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Underpaid Programmers
Capital Versus Labor
Dec 6, 2022
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Kent Beck
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August 2022
Geographic Compensation Will Lose
I’m your employer.
Aug 10, 2022
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Kent Beck
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July 2022
Sooner Versus Longer
Unexpected Incentive Misalignment in a Subscription Book
Jul 15, 2022
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Kent Beck
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May 2022
Earning to Write, not Writing to Earn
“You’re just doing it for the money.”
May 17, 2022
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Kent Beck
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February 2022
Perverse Incentives of Retrospective Promotions
Do you:
Feb 25, 2022
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Kent Beck
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Obligation: Incentive to Write
Getting paid, even a little, makes a big difference
Feb 1, 2022
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Kent Beck
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December 2021
Fixed Equity Grants Become Toxic
Context Changes Incentives
Dec 10, 2021
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Kent Beck
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