Who doesn’t know them, those mildly irritating requests to type up the letters of a small picture in order to log in somewhere. I knew they are useful as they ensure the site we are logging in to that we are humans instead of spam-bots. So they will know that we really want to buy those tickets, post a comment, etc. But today I learned there is much more behind [full post]
Arriving home late last night I zapped for a bit and ended up watching a TED Talk on motivation by Daniel Pink. “There is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does”. Employees are being incentivised with carrots and sticks, while according to research this type of motivators work only in case the task to be performed is of a mechanical nature, not requiring creativity at all. As [full post]
