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Kent Beck

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Kent Beck writes Geek Incentives, a personal blog at geekincentives.substack.com about career, economics and business. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Ratings as Incentives – By Kent Beck – Geek Incentives”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2022

Creating and maintaining incentives that help geeks do their best work.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Ratings as Incentives – By Kent Beck – Geek Incentives
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Programmers Underpaid? Labor vs. Capital as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted The Pie Problem: A Performance Assessment Parable as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Ratings as Incentives – By Kent Beck – Geek Incentives as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Fixed equity grants become toxic to hard work in later growth as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Ratings as Incentives as a story · 1 points

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