The Wrong Way to Motivate Your Kid, “When a child encounters difficulty, it’s common for parents to feel like they don’t have many levers to pull. Yet my experience working with children, along with plenty of research on resilience, has taught me a valuable lesson: When a kid is falling short, penalizing them by taking away the thing they care most about is not the way to motivate them.”
The Lephrechauns of Software, a book, currently still a work in progress, about the issues with information dissemination, especially in regards to software engineering. This “telephone game” causes rumors to be repeated until they are blown up into a kind of folklore, which people cling to.
