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Rewarding Creativity
Using extrinsic rewards to motivate creative tasks is generally actively detrimental. >Incentives will have a detrimental effect on performance when two conditions are met: first, when a task is interesting enough for subjects that the offer of incentives is a superfluous source of motivation; second, when the solution to the task is open-ended enough that…
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Fairness
> To assume that fairness always requires that people should get what they “earn” —that the law of the marketplace is the same thing as justice —is a very dubious proposition indeed. What’s more, as Morton Deutsch warns, ”the danger of conceiving of personal relations in terms appropriate to marketplace exchanges is that it hastens…
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Memory Machines
> Rather than building devices that could enhance human memory and human knowledge for each individual, education technology has focused instead on devices that standardize the delivery of curriculum, that run students through various exercises and assessments, and that provide behavioral reinforcement. [source](http://hackeducation.com/2016/07/13/memory-machines)
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Self-Love
> It’s more than likely that one of the reasons that the trans and queer communities continue to make such gains in culture, despite a violent backlash, is the broad recognition that self-care, mutual aid, and gentle support can be tools of resistance, too. After the Orlando massacre, LGBTQ people across the world started posting selfies…
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Wellness
A gentle form of oppression and social goal-post-shifting. > The isolating ideology of wellness works against this sort of social change in two important ways. First, it persuades all us that if we are sick, sad, and exhausted, the problem isn’t one of economics. There is no structural imbalance, according to this view—there is only…
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Forcing consideration
> Consideration and thought are not bad things – they lead to more deliberate and more intentional use of technology, and that’s a good thing. [source](https://www.graphite.org/privacy/blog/safety-risk-and-informed-decisions)