In business, people love to talk about bonuses. “Bonuses are an incentive for employees to work harder.” you hear people say. But are they? Let’s take a critical look at this “motivational” practice. Thinking that bonuses are a path to employee efficiency shows a great lack of corporate empathy by management for the workers. It …
Category Archives: Essays
The Social Web and the “Reconnection Generation”
Each generation faces unique challenges and a varying landscape of social interaction. In the last several hundred years we have seen these changes happen at a pace hitherto unknown in human history. During the nineteenth century reliable high speed steam transportation gave people, for the first time, the ability to send mail and parcels long …
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What is a Game?
Everyone has their own definition of what constitutes a “game” and, as one would suspect, philosophers have put forth their own theories as to what is and is not a game. I have long felt that there is a certain aspect of gaming that is often misidentified and included in many activities that are called …
Video Games as Literature
At the turn of the century (that is, in 1899 – the LAST century) I think that few people would have guessed that photography would become a significant form of art or that recorded music would mostly displace performance music as the core of the musical arts nor would many believe that future forms of …
The End of Powered Telephones
I have long argued that the legacy telephone network was on its last leg. It no longer serves any real purpose. It is expensive both for end users and for the telephone companies. The quality of phone calls, in my personal experience, has been inconsistent and only on par with VoIP. I have heard many …