{"id":16263,"date":"2010-03-08T10:42:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T10:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/03\/what-motivates-you-besides-sandwiches.html"},"modified":"2010-03-08T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T10:42:42","slug":"what_motivates_you_besides_sandwiches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/08\/what_motivates_you_besides_sandwiches\/","title":{"rendered":"What motivates you (besides sandwiches)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I visited the nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Googleplex\">Googleplex<\/a> to hear a talk from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danpink.com\/\">Daniel Pink<\/a>, author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594488843?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=freeagentnati-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1594488843\">Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us<\/a><\/em>.  His talk is well worth a listen, maybe as background during lunch:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"261\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IXrMbGloMTI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"261\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nOddly enough, I make a cameo around the 2:30 mark.  I was already a touch nervous about whether it was entirely legit for me to attend, despite being invited by friend &amp; Google employee Marc Pawliger.  I&#8217;d also heard Daniel on NPR talking about experiments in which subjects had to solve problems on the fly (e.g. how do you stick a box of candles to the wall?)&#8211;and of course Google is known for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=3916173\">testing people<\/a>.<br \/>\nGetting immediately called before the audience, therefore, was nerve wracking: <em>Oh my God, these people are going to figure out I&#8217;m an impostor, I&#8217;m going to eat it on some stupid puzzle, and I&#8217;m going to make Adobe look bad by extension<\/em>.  Fortunately, however, the worst that awaited me was some Cheetos (at the expense of a free meal in the vaunted Google cafeteria).<br \/>\nAs I say, the talk is worthwhile, and I&#8217;ll comment more soon on Autonomy, Mastery, and Progress, especially as I&#8217;ve faced my own struggles recently.  [Thanks to Marc for hosting me, Google for posting the video, and of course Daniel for the sandwich.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I visited the nearby Googleplex to hear a talk from Daniel Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. His talk is well worth a listen, maybe as background during lunch: Oddly enough, I make a cameo around the 2:30 mark. I was already a touch nervous about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}