Brunch, Sat. Oct. 3, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m, my place

Subject says it all. RSVPs appreciated. Drop me a note if you don't know where I live.

Excellent TED talk on motivation

Most of us (by which I mean me and the handful of people who regularly read my LJ) are, however much we may dislike the term, knowledge workers; many of us also manage other knowledge workers. And most of us — or at any rate, those with whom I have, over the years, had conversations about the subject — feel that, once you're making a decent living, money isn't anywhere near as good a motivator, for ourselves and those of our colleagues we respect, as upper management seems to think it is.

But until now I didn't know there was science to back that belief up. Indeed, science to show that financial incentives are in fact de-motivatiing for creative intellectual work.

Deniel Pink's TED talk. Ninteen minutes. Well worth watching.