Oxide and Friends

Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives

Oct 4, 2022

01:05:32

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Do You Still Have a Patent Bounty?

02:13

Are There Incentives That Motivate People?

01:40

Why I Don't Feel That Way About You

01:48

Introduction

2min

Stadia Stadia - What Do You Think?

2min

Is It a Good Idea?

2min

Incentivizing Engineers to Do Bigger Things

2min

Are You Good?

2min

Are We Perverting Our Incentives More and More?

2min

Are There Incentives That Motivate People?

2min

Why I Don't Feel That Way About You

2min

Do You Still Have a Patent Bounty?

2min

10.

You Know, I'm a New Engineer at Son

2min

11.

What Do You Praise in Public?

4min

12.

Extrinsic Motivation

2min

13.

You Know, I'm Leaving Sun

2min

14.

Is This a Good Idea?

4min

15.

Having a Chaos Engineering Program

2min

16.

How to Make Bug Bug Fixing More Visible in an Organization

2min

17.

Is That a Dream?

2min

18.

Are We Just Running the Food Stocks for Future Generations?

3min

19.

The Impact of Industrial Research on the World Wide Web

3min

20.

Is Maintenance Work a Master and Marker?

2min

21.

How Do You See Around Corners?

2min

22.

Taking Down Production

3min

23.

Are You Getting a Culture of Writing Post Mortems?

4min

24.

How to Incentivize Incentivize Young People

5min

25.

Are You the Monkey in This Metaphor?

2min

26.

When Was I Happiest and Why?

4min

Inspired by the incentives at Google that apparently promote launching--but not sustaining--new products, Bryan, Adam and the Oxide Friends discuss the efficacy of various incentives... and the incentives that can lead to unintended and negative outcomes.