If You Think Of People As Making

Money Is A Wonderful Invention. It Lets Us Save, It Lets Us Specialize, Right? I Couldn't Be A Professor If There Wasn't Any Money. Every Day I Would Have To Raise Chicken And Bread And Broccoli And Go Ahead And Spend All My Time Trading. So, Money Is A Wonderful Mechanism.

When We Think About Labor, We Usually Think About Motivation And Payment As The Same Thing, But The Reality Is That We Should Probably Add All Kinds Of Things To It - Meaning, Creation, Challenges, Ownership, Identity, Pride, Etc.

It Is Very Difficult To Make Really Big, Important, Life-changing Decisions Because We Are All Susceptible To A Formidable Array Of Decision Biases. There Are More Of Them Than We Realize, And They Come To Visit Us More Often Than We Like To Admit.

I Think We Could Get People To Both Be More Productive And Happier. We're Less Productive As Individuals. We're Less Productive As Companies, And We're More Miserable.

There's Something About [cyclically] Doing Something Over And Over And Over That Seems To Be Particularly Demotivating.