The Scientific Study of Satisfaction

April 19, 2021 at 10:27 am

[…] pay peo­ple enough to take the issue of money off the table. Pay peo­ple enough, so that they are not think­ing about money and they are think­ing about the work. Once you do that it turns to 3 fac­tors that the sci­ence shows leads to bet­ter per­for­mance, not to men­tion per­son­al sat­is­fac­tion: Autonomy, Mastery, and  Purpose.

(via swiss­miss)

The Manual

September 16, 2014 at 9:34 pm

Have a look at this the next time your ready for some deep read­ing and crit­i­cal think­ing. The Manual is a design jour­nal that explores what it means to design for the web and why we design. Their first suc­cess­ful Kickstarter put them in print; now they are run­ning anoth­er cam­paign to open up their pub­lish­ing and expand pro­duc­tion to mul­ti­ple platforms.

My favorite arti­cle so far is Practicing Passion by Tiffani Jones Brown. It’s a pow­er­ful, per­son­al look at over­com­ing the fear of medi­oc­rity and find­ing the love for some­thing. *Hint: it’s prac­tice.* It was def­i­nite­ly the per­fect read to keep me moti­vat­ed this week and to keep pow­er­ing through projects. Especially this gem of a paragraph.

If you want to have pas­sion for your work then do what your coach­es told you: set chal­leng­ing goals for your­self every day, work hard to achieve them, and eval­u­ate how you did at the end. Structure it in a way that makes absorp­tion pos­si­ble. Do it, in other words. Then do it some more.
— Tiffani Jones Brown 

Today will be a good day.

August 21, 2014 at 1:34 pm

John Henry Müller has the right idea about get­ting moti­vat­ed and being pro­duc­tive — one day at a time. Don’t get over­whelmed by mas­sive to-do lists; keep it clear, con­cise, and simple.

(via Designer News)