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Dan Pink on Intrinsic Motivation

Interesting animation of Dan Pink's RSA lecture on the truth about what motivates us.

Dan Pink's talk at the RSA

Dan Pink's talk at TED

The surprising science of motivation. 

For more see running notes.

Behavioral economics of intrinsic motivation

Jeff Monday on intrinsic motivation.

In Dan Pink's new book Drive and his latest TED talk he makes the distinction between extrinsic motivators like strict schedules and large bonuses and intrinsic motivators like autonomy, mastery, and purpose. He makes the case that employees performing jobs that require more than just basic cognition, are less productive when motivated by an extrinsic source than an intrinsic source.

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Tim Berners-Lee on the year Open Data went worldwide

At TED 2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED 2010, he illustrated a few interesting examples of real world linked data.

Some of the examples he references include:

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Government data around the world

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The Rise of Patient Capital

In the presentation above, Jacqueline Novogratz proposes a middle way between Venture capital and aid, as a means of helping the world's poorest people. It's called Patient Capital and is a mechanism to provide financing to entrepreneurs and enterprises, so they can bring affordable clean water, housing and healthcare to the poor.

She highlights various promising examples of this tyoe of entrepreneurial innovation driving social change. She notes how, in the eight years she has run The Acumen Fund, she has seen the power of patient capital not only inspire innovation and risk taking, but also create thousands of jobs and bring millions of products and services to some of the poorst people on the planet.

She explains how Patient Capital is focused on building solutions from the perspective of those we are trying to help.

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