Continuing the series… Trying to understand human motivation and behaviour, a few years ago I finally came across this article: Motivation Reconsidered: The Concept of Competence, by Robert White (1959). According to the current APA abstract: Theories of motivation built upon primary drives cannot account for playful and exploratory behavior. The new motivational concept of “competence” [...]
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This is pretty awesome: via David Brooks: In the late 1930s, a group of 268 promising young men, including John F. Kennedy and Ben Bradlee, entered Harvard College. By any normal measure, they had it made. They tended to be bright, polished, affluent and ambitious. They had the benefit of the world’s most prestigious university. They [...]
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The AIG bonuses have marked a turn, for the worse — not economically but socially, or morally. The disgrace of the bonus-giving itself has been dwarfed by the populist reaction against them. Matthew Yglesias has pointed to some of the best bits from around the web — especially via this post quoting Brad DeLong on compensation reform (also [...]
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by Brian on 01-21-2009
in art
This may or may not be interesting to anyone (I’m assuming it’s not) but I feel like I need to write this to get a more coherent sense of the influences that shaped my thinking. Or maybe that’s not it — I don’t really know why I feel like I need to write this, I just [...]
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richard rorty,
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