Geek Incentives

Home
Archive
About

January 2023

Sign-up Versus Assignment
An Incentives Perspective
 • 
Kent Beck
18

December 2022

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…
 • 
Kent Beck
5
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…
3
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…
 • 
Kent Beck
1
Underpaid Programmers
Capital Versus Labor
 • 
Kent Beck
5

August 2022

July 2022

Sooner Versus Longer
Unexpected Incentive Misalignment in a Subscription Book
 • 
Kent Beck
4

May 2022

February 2022

Perverse Incentives of Retrospective Promotions
Do you: Promote people in hopes that they will perform well at the higher level? Wait until you’ve seen consistent performance at the higher level and…
 • 
Kent Beck
Obligation: Incentive to Write
Getting paid, even a little, makes a big difference
 • 
Kent Beck
1

December 2021

Fixed Equity Grants Become Toxic
Context Changes Incentives
 • 
Kent Beck
1
© 2024 Kent Beck
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture