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Sometimes it takes time to cultivate intrinsic motivation. Gamification can get you over that hump.


I've moved on from gamification and thoroughly removed all such interventions from everything. I found the extrinsic nature of the mechanisms wasn't helping and were creating a distraction in and of themselves.

Metrics are generally overrated in my view. The ones that matter really matter but the rest are just noise that slows and obfuscates.


What metrics matter?




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