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Adrian Hon on the Gamified Life

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I Love Working and I Love Being Productive

As someone who doesn't text or live online, it saddens me that so many people cannot handle quietness. How many companies are simply gamifying their workers because the workers do not know how to self-stimulate to be productive? This touches a little bit on the earlier comment about how our brains are changing and so on. I'm hesitant to blame workers. If you are in a job that is incredibly repetitive and where you have no agency and you don't feel like you're benefiting society, then of course your motivation is going to be pretty low," she says.

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