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Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives

Oxide and Friends

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What Do You Praise in Public?

I'm not sure like there was a clearly right answer in that circumstance But it did make me think a lot about what you praise in public. What you praise in private because you know You appreciate the work, but don't necessarily want that to be set as the the standard of the pattern. Once you do that publicly you raise the bar and make it hard for everyone else Whereas if you tell him privately, this was terrific work and we really appreciate it might be different. It sets different kinds of incentives and expectations Okay, that's interesting private versus public alsoWhat about if would she have felt the same way if the praises didn't public but there'd been no compensation associated with it? I

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