If you had to guess, would you choose a monetary reward or social recognition as more impactful incentives for users to provide good answers to questions? Let’s take a real life example to see how this played out. Mahalo.com was a Q&A site that utilized a special incentive process to get users to ask and…

It is good to be disrupted from your norm. Today try something different. Adventure is calling, answer it. Photo by sarandy westfall on Unsplash.

When you’re running away from a ravenous bear I can assure you, not from personal experience, that your mind is not filled with concerns other than going as fast as possible. An undeniable benefit of urgency is that it mitigate the voice of analysis paralysis. That said, urgency can also make you more brash and…

Habits compared to addictions, what is the difference? Addictions are persistent, compulsive, dependencies on a behavior or substance. Inherently addictions are destructive. A habit on the other hand, is a common behavior that can be healthy or unhealthy, and is done with little or no deliberation. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash.

Today I talked with a friend who has spent the past six months living among the people of Panama.* From living in a third world country, their biggest take away was: “how debilitating ignorance is.” As the locals prepared their meals they had no concept of cleanliness. After food and water, education quickly follows. The…