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The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

You would think that monetary reward is the primary motivator for human beings to perform their best. You’d be right for simple tasks, but once you enter the realm of more complicated and more cognitive-intensive tasks, things turn upside-down.

The embedded video above is an excerpt from Dan Pink’s TED talk on motivation:

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.

via RSA Animate via TED GlobalThanks for the scoop, Ken!

June 7, 2010 Posted by Mike | How-To, Productivity, Science and Technology, Video | , , | 2 Comments

MetaX – Video File Meta Data Tagging

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I started a project not long ago to convert my physical DVD library into a digital movie library. One of the things I used to obsess over is entering every bit of meta data for each video file. Now with two kids, I slowly fell off that bandwagon.

Until now.

Luckily there are both Windows and Mac OS X versions of the software.

via Kerstetter.net via Lifehacker

May 16, 2010 Posted by Mike | How-To, Mac, Movies, Productivity, Software, Television, Windows | , | Comments Off

Distractions of the Digital Persuasion

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Whoa, Nelly! An entire month passed without a new post to MCOJ? My apologies!

What better excuse than a post on digital distractions. :)

via Information is Beautiful via Lifehacker

September 12, 2009 Posted by Mike | General, Humor, Productivity, iphone | , , , | Comments Off

Amazon Hot! Stuff [Firefox Extension]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m already an Amazon fanboy, but now this Firefox extension takes my fanboy-ism to epically lazy proportions!

via Firefox Add-ons via Lifehacker

June 2, 2009 Posted by Mike | Productivity, Software | , , , | 1 Comment

Remember The Milk Hacked Into Launchy

If you’re not afraid of getting your hands a little dirty, Lifehacker has a great little VB script that enables you to enter items into your Remember The Milk to-do list via Launchy.

A couple of caveats:

  • This VB script assumes you have a gmail account.
  • This requires putting your gmail username and password in the VB script.

For the security-minded (read: paranoid), this might be too much.  This works out nicely, though for quick task entry without losing momentum.

via Lifehacker

April 6, 2009 Posted by Mike | How-To, Productivity, Software, Windows | , , , | Comments Off