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Going from a mediocre team to an elite team can seem daunting, especially when we need to figure out where to start. The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) can be our north star, helping us build the habits and practices we need to be elite. We'll look at DORA, the challenges of building habits, and how to form habits that stick. What Is DORA? The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) report focuses on four key areas to measure elite teams: Lead time: How long does it take from code committed to running in production
Deploy frequency: How often does our organization deploy to production
Change fail percentage: How often do we need to rollback, patch, hotfix, or fix forward after a change
Failed deployment recovery time: How long does it generally take to recover service The challenge here is going from knowing about those four areas that need to be worked on so that we go from being a mediocre team to an elite squad scoring a ten on the DORA quick check. The four measurements of an elite team are: Lead time is less than one hour


Deploy frequency is on-demand (multiple deploys per day)


The change fail percentage is ideally 0%


Failed deployment recovery time is less than one hour To see where tour team currently places, try the DORA quick check. This blog will focus on the tools, technologies, practices, culture, and philosophies that will help teams become elite. Improvements in our work take time since we need to break old habits that don't serve us well and build new ones. This blog will keep that in mind as we move through different topics. Each post will have an invitation to try out what we learn. If there are any questions or issues that need to be covered, make use of the comments section to submit the question. The Challenges of Forming New Habits We've all seen New Year's Resolutions and possibly have had some of our own. According to the Forbes report in 2024, 53% of those surveyed had given up on their New Year's Resolutions by the end of March. For many people, sticking to a new resolution or goal is challenging. There is now a day known as Ditch New Year's Resolution Day, which during 2024 fell on January 17th. While the media paints a picture of a significant stumbling block, statistics show it's less troublesome than perceived. We can see the reality of the quit rate in the chart below: Source Why Do People Fail in Their New Resolutions/Habits? In an article by James Clear, he outlines five reasons our new habits might fail: Trying to change more than one thing at a time


Setting big goals without breaking them down into smaller steps


Seeking a result, not the ritual


We have not changed the environment in which we perform our good habits, so we quickly revert to our bad habits


Assuming small changes don't add up However, there are ways to set ourselves up for success. In the book Atomic Habits, James talks about three key lessons: Small habits make a big difference.
Forget about setting goals. Instead, focus on the system.
Build identity-based habits. The Impact of Habits Building identity-based habits means, for example, instead of saying I go running, we say we're runners, or instead of saying we paint, we say we're painters. There is a subtle difference in the wording, but if we start to think we're runners, that can lead to thinking, what does a runner do? It could mean changing the food we eat, how often we train, when we train, and the goals we set for ourselves. If we focus on getting 1% better every day in one year, we'll end up being 37 times better than when we started. It means that anything we set our mind to can profoundly impact us. It may not be noticeable at first, but as the changes compound over time, we will notice that we're a different person than when we started. Like a cliff being eroded over time by the waves, at the start, we overlook the impact each wave has, but over time, we see how the cliff face changes in its shape. How Do I Go About Creating and Maintaining Habits? In the Habits Cheatsheet, James Clear talks about the four laws to create a good habit: The 1st law (Cue): Make it obvious
The 2nd law (Craving): Make it attractive
The 3rd law (Response): Make it easy
The 4th law (Reward): Make it satisfying As an example, let's say we've decided that we want to drink more water every day. We could make it obvious by placing a water bottle on our desk so that we can't miss it. Having a nice bottle or putting some lemon or mint in the water would be attractive. To make it easy, we fill the water bottle the night before so we don't have to think about it in the morning. Then, to make it satisfying, we could have a calendar above our desk where we put a sticker to mark each day that we've managed to empty our water bottle. How Do I Beat My Old Bad Habits? Again, in the Habits Cheatsheet, there are the inverse laws for avoiding our bad habits: Inversion of the 1st law (Cue): Make it invisible
Inversion of the 2nd law (Craving): Make it unattractive
Inversion of the 3rd law (Response): Make it difficult
Inversion of the 4th law (Reward): Make it unsatisfying Let's say we want to watch less TV. We could make it invisible by placing the TV out of view, moving it to another room, or inside a cupboard. We might unsubscribe to our streaming accounts and TV subscriptions to make it unattractive. To make it difficult, we place the TV's power cord or remote control in another room. Finally, to make it unsatisfying, we could have an accountability partner that we check in with, with whom we will have to confess that we ended up watching TV. The Next Steps As we reflect on our DORA scores, we have an opportunity to identify areas where we can improve by forming new habits. The DORA quick check provides guidance on key areas we can work on to improve our score. In our team, we can decide what to work on to raise our score, moving us from developers to software craftspeople. Then, we can form habits to help us make lasting changes. For example, if we identify a need to reduce lead time, we may realize our review process is slowing us down. When we explore it, we recognize we need to set aside time to review the code. We could take a habit-stacking approach. For example, when we open our laptops in the morning (our current habit), we first review all of the pull requests that are pending review for us. Another could be first to review pull requests after our lunch break. To make it attractive, we might realize that the pull requests lack enough information, so we add a pull request template so all the information is there. Then, to make it easy, we could have a simple way for people to launch the application and see the change. To make it satisfying, we could recognize a person each week who does a great job of meaningful reviews and helps speed up the delivery of features. Conclusion We've explored the DORA report and how it measures teams' ability to deliver software. We've examined how habits are the foundation of meeting our goals/resolutions, looking at good and bad habits. Our challenge is to move from software developers to software craftspeople, using our daily habits to help us transform. References State of DevOps Report: https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops
DORA quick check assessment: https://dora.dev/quickcheck/
Forbes article on New Year's Resolutions Statistics: https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/new-years-resolutions-statistics/
5 Common Mistakes That Cause New Habits to Fail: https://jamesclear.com/habits-fail
Atomic Habits book by James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits
Summary of the Atomic Habits book by James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits-summary
Continuous Improvement - How It Works and How to Master It: https://jamesclear.com/continuous-improvement
Habits cheatsheets: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits/cheatsheet
Habit stacking: https://jamesclear.com/habit-stacking The lead image was generated using Microsoft Designer. Going from a mediocre team to an elite team can seem daunting, especially when we need to figure out where to start. The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) can be our north star, helping us build the habits and practices we need to be elite. We'll look at DORA, the challenges of building habits, and how to form habits that stick. What Is DORA? The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) report focuses on four key areas to measure elite teams: report report Lead time: How long does it take from code committed to running in production Deploy frequency: How often does our organization deploy to production Change fail percentage: How often do we need to rollback, patch, hotfix, or fix forward after a change Failed deployment recovery time: How long does it generally take to recover service Lead time: How long does it take from code committed to running in production Lead time: Deploy frequency: How often does our organization deploy to production Deploy frequency: Change fail percentage: How often do we need to rollback, patch, hotfix, or fix forward after a change Change fail percentage: Failed deployment recovery time: How long does it generally take to recover service Failed deployment recovery time: The challenge here is going from knowing about those four areas that need to be worked on so that we go from being a mediocre team to an elite squad scoring a ten on the DORA quick check. The four measurements of an elite team are: The four measurements of an elite team are: Lead time is less than one hour Deploy frequency is on-demand (multiple deploys per day) The change fail percentage is ideally 0% Failed deployment recovery time is less than one hour Lead time is less than one hour Lead time is less than one hour Deploy frequency is on-demand (multiple deploys per day) Deploy frequency is on-demand (multiple deploys per day) The change fail percentage is ideally 0% The change fail percentage is ideally 0% Failed deployment recovery time is less than one hour Failed deployment recovery time is less than one hour To see where tour team currently places, try the DORA quick check . DORA quick check DORA quick check This blog will focus on the tools, technologies, practices, culture, and philosophies that will help teams become elite. Improvements in our work take time since we need to break old habits that don't serve us well and build new ones. This blog will keep that in mind as we move through different topics. Each post will have an invitation to try out what we learn. If there are any questions or issues that need to be covered, make use of the comments section to submit the question. The Challenges of Forming New Habits We've all seen New Year's Resolutions and possibly have had some of our own. According to the Forbes report in 2024, 53% of those surveyed had given up on their New Year's Resolutions by the end of March. For many people, sticking to a new resolution or goal is challenging. There is now a day known as Ditch New Year's Resolution Day, which during 2024 fell on January 17th. While the media paints a picture of a significant stumbling block, statistics show it's less troublesome than perceived. We can see the reality of the quit rate in the chart below: Source Source Why Do People Fail in Their New Resolutions/Habits? In an article by James Clear, he outlines five reasons our new habits might fail: article article Trying to change more than one thing at a time Setting big goals without breaking them down into smaller steps Seeking a result, not the ritual We have not changed the environment in which we perform our good habits, so we quickly revert to our bad habits Assuming small changes don't add up Trying to change more than one thing at a time Trying to change more than one thing at a time Setting big goals without breaking them down into smaller steps Setting big goals without breaking them down into smaller steps Seeking a result, not the ritual Seeking a result, not the ritual We have not changed the environment in which we perform our good habits, so we quickly revert to our bad habits We have not changed the environment in which we perform our good habits, so we quickly revert to our bad habits Assuming small changes don't add up Assuming small changes don't add up However, there are ways to set ourselves up for success. In the book Atomic Habits , James talks about three key lessons : Atomic Habits three key lessons three key lessons Small habits make a big difference. Forget about setting goals. Instead, focus on the system. Build identity-based habits. Small habits make a big difference. Forget about setting goals. Instead, focus on the system. Build identity-based habits. The Impact of Habits Building identity-based habits means, for example, instead of saying I go running, we say we're runners, or instead of saying we paint, we say we're painters. There is a subtle difference in the wording, but if we start to think we're runners, that can lead to thinking, what does a runner do? It could mean changing the food we eat, how often we train, when we train, and the goals we set for ourselves. If we focus on getting 1% better every day in one year, we'll end up being 37 times better than when we started. It means that anything we set our mind to can profoundly impact us. It may not be noticeable at first, but as the changes compound over time, we will notice that we're a different person than when we started. Like a cliff being eroded over time by the waves, at the start, we overlook the impact each wave has, but over time, we see how the cliff face changes in its shape. How Do I Go About Creating and Maintaining Habits? In the Habits Cheatsheet , James Clear talks about the four laws to create a good habit: Habits Cheatsheet The 1st law (Cue): Make it obvious The 2nd law (Craving): Make it attractive The 3rd law (Response): Make it easy The 4th law (Reward): Make it satisfying The 1st law ( Cue ): Make it obvious Cue The 2nd law ( Craving ): Make it attractive Craving The 3rd law ( Response ): Make it easy Response The 4th law ( Reward ): Make it satisfying Reward As an example, let's say we've decided that we want to drink more water every day. We could make it obvious by placing a water bottle on our desk so that we can't miss it. Having a nice bottle or putting some lemon or mint in the water would be attractive. To make it easy, we fill the water bottle the night before so we don't have to think about it in the morning. Then, to make it satisfying, we could have a calendar above our desk where we put a sticker to mark each day that we've managed to empty our water bottle. How Do I Beat My Old Bad Habits? Again, in the Habits Cheatsheet, there are the inverse laws for avoiding our bad habits: Inversion of the 1st law (Cue): Make it invisible Inversion of the 2nd law (Craving): Make it unattractive Inversion of the 3rd law (Response): Make it difficult Inversion of the 4th law (Reward): Make it unsatisfying Inversion of the 1st law ( Cue ): Make it invisible Cue Inversion of the 2nd law ( Craving ): Make it unattractive Craving Inversion of the 3rd law ( Response ): Make it difficult Response Inversion of the 4th law ( Reward ): Make it unsatisfying Reward Let's say we want to watch less TV. We could make it invisible by placing the TV out of view, moving it to another room, or inside a cupboard. We might unsubscribe to our streaming accounts and TV subscriptions to make it unattractive. To make it difficult, we place the TV's power cord or remote control in another room. Finally, to make it unsatisfying, we could have an accountability partner that we check in with, with whom we will have to confess that we ended up watching TV. The Next Steps As we reflect on our DORA scores, we have an opportunity to identify areas where we can improve by forming new habits. The DORA quick check provides guidance on key areas we can work on to improve our score. In our team, we can decide what to work on to raise our score, moving us from developers to software craftspeople. Then, we can form habits to help us make lasting changes. For example, if we identify a need to reduce lead time, we may realize our review process is slowing us down. When we explore it, we recognize we need to set aside time to review the code. We could take a habit-stacking approach. For example, when we open our laptops in the morning (our current habit), we first review all of the pull requests that are pending review for us. Another could be first to review pull requests after our lunch break. habit-stacking pull requests To make it attractive, we might realize that the pull requests lack enough information, so we add a pull request template so all the information is there. Then, to make it easy, we could have a simple way for people to launch the application and see the change. To make it satisfying, we could recognize a person each week who does a great job of meaningful reviews and helps speed up the delivery of features. Conclusion We've explored the DORA report and how it measures teams' ability to deliver software. We've examined how habits are the foundation of meeting our goals/resolutions, looking at good and bad habits. Our challenge is to move from software developers to software craftspeople, using our daily habits to help us transform. References State of DevOps Report: https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops DORA quick check assessment: https://dora.dev/quickcheck/ Forbes article on New Year's Resolutions Statistics: https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/new-years-resolutions-statistics/ 5 Common Mistakes That Cause New Habits to Fail: https://jamesclear.com/habits-fail Atomic Habits book by James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits Summary of the Atomic Habits book by James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits-summary Continuous Improvement - How It Works and How to Master It: https://jamesclear.com/continuous-improvement Habits cheatsheets: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits/cheatsheet Habit stacking: https://jamesclear.com/habit-stacking State of DevOps Report: https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops DORA quick check assessment: https://dora.dev/quickcheck/ https://dora.dev/quickcheck/ https://dora.dev/quickcheck/ Forbes article on New Year's Resolutions Statistics: https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/new-years-resolutions-statistics/ https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/new-years-resolutions-statistics/ https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/new-years-resolutions-statistics/ 5 Common Mistakes That Cause New Habits to Fail: https://jamesclear.com/habits-fail https://jamesclear.com/habits-fail https://jamesclear.com/habits-fail Atomic Habits book by James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits Summary of the Atomic Habits book by James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits-summary https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits-summary https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits-summary Continuous Improvement - How It Works and How to Master It: https://jamesclear.com/continuous-improvement https://jamesclear.com/continuous-improvement https://jamesclear.com/continuous-improvement Habits cheatsheets: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits/cheatsheet https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits/cheatsheet https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits/cheatsheet Habit stacking: https://jamesclear.com/habit-stacking https://jamesclear.com/habit-stacking https://jamesclear.com/habit-stacking The lead image was generated using Microsoft Designer. The lead image was generated using Microsoft Designer . Microsoft Designer Microsoft Designer

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Let's learn about via these 53 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Dogecoin /Learn Repo If you google 'anonymous crypto jokes,' Dogecoin is the third result. 1. An Intro to Shitcoins for Beginner Crypto Traders Shitcoins are the subject of most crypto discussions and for a good reason. Find out more about them in this introductory article. 2. My Picks: Five Top-Performing Cryptos in 2021 My Five top-performing cryptos in 2021: Bitcoin, Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, Dogecoin and Solana. What's yours? 3. Lets Graph Simple Moving Averages Using Rust Simple Moving Averages are calculated by getting the mean closing price over a period of time. Lets see on how we can program that idea into Rust. 4. Is Tesla Adding Dogecoin as a Payment Option? Twitter user @BitDeepu tweeted an image of Tesla’s source code that shows that Dogecoin holders can buy Tesla Model Y with their DOGE tokens. 5. Mining Crypto for Profit: It is Time Full-scale mining requires a large number of computers with powerful GPUs. 6. Who Showed Up to Dogepalooza and Who Cares? (Much Surprise) What happened at the first-ever Dogecoin-themed charity music festival Dogepalooza? Hear it from the perspective of one of the performers there, Rito Rhymes. 7. Elon Musk and Crypto Markets: "Seriously, playing?" or "Playing seriously"? Elon Musk and crypto market manipulation - is it a joke or a serious crime? 8. Doge Wars: Attack Of The Clones Dogecoin's popularity has inspired more clones with very similar names to emerge, creating a situation where the name itself is in contention between coins. 9. From Dogecoin to Twitter: The Making of the Everything App Depending on whom you ask, Elon is either an egotistical villain or a savior. He is currently the world’s richest man, with a net worth of about 200 Billion. Well, with that ind of money it becomes easy to create products that have a direct impact on people’s daily lives- with huge repercussions. Now, Elon is not your average billionaire. Most of the time, he has swayed the masses to his favor, much to the chagrin of big tech. This has turned him onto somewhat of a cult, with a huge following and an enviable portfolio of companies that seek to upend conventional beliefs and corporations. From Neuralink to Space X , Tesla to the Boring Company, he is an entrepreneur who seeks to “disrupt” global order as he strives to achieve what may somewhat be thought to be impossible, until its done. 10. Should You Invest In Meme Coins? Find out everything you need to know about meme-based cryptocurrencies 11. How to Pronounce Doggie Coin The doggie is in heat! One of the inventors confirms Dogecoin is "DOhj"coin. The name is made up but "sounds" Japanese. 12. 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They believe the motto Do Only Good Everyday. They were doing it when dogecoin was going for less than a penny. 17. The Elon-Twitter Love Affair: Is it Steamy Enough for Crypto and Tech? Elon Musk Twitter association is expected to pave the way for the next-gen of social networking, web 3.0 adoption, and other tech-powered developments. 18. My 5 Favorite Proof of Work Cryptocurrencies Proof of Work is an important aspect of the cryptocurrency solution. Here are my favorite Proof of Work cryptocurrencies. 19. The Power of Memes: Tendies, Dogecoin, and the Potential for Social Impact Ask yourself this question: what is the most powerful, yet relatively untapped force on earth at this moment? You might think of the ability of sustainable energy to replace fossil fuels, the strength of youth voices as they attempt to take power back from the boomer powers that be, or as it's been hammered through the heads of technologists over the past 5 years, decentralization. The promise of decentralization is as follows: instead of the corporations owning all the services you pay for, the services run themselves and act in a truly fair way towards all users. This means no more price gouging of Epipens, no more ridiculously high medical bills, no more violations of net neutrality, and so on. To get to this idealized form of world decentralization, however, we need to think about the how. Think about the one omnipresent force that is on every single person's mind right now: virality. 20. Why You Should Be Careful Investing in Dogecoin Even though there has been plenty of DOGE price momentum lately, it will come to an end sooner rather than later. 21. Shiba Inu vs. Akita Inu: The Great Memecoin War Meme-based coins have taken the world by storm lately. Two new cryptocurrency entrants are Shiba Inu and Akita Inu, inspired by Dogecoin and based on Ethereum. 22. 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The Multiverse of Madness: Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, Inflation & Bitcoin Warren Buffett vs. Elon Musk - Inflation vs. Bitcoin 31. What's Driving The DogeCoin Mania? You've got that friend that came to you and asked about Dogecoin? That's how crazy Doge is all about. Why did it skyrocketed in 2021? Read to find out more now! 32. Is Dogecoin Worth a Dime? - All Things Doggie Are Good Dogecoin is holding at a nickel so a dime seems possible. Crypto is SO volatile, there is no actual set value in your head. 33. Why Bitcoin Boomed and Dipped, and What's Coming Next Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, although they are using high amounts of energy, create greater efficiency because they are taking out the middle man. 34. Who's the Top Crypto Dog? Shiba Inu vs. Dogecoin This article compares the various value propositions presented by the Shiba Inu coin (SHIB) and Dogecoin (DOGE). 35. It's Time to Give Meme Tokens a Purpose Each meme token is moving to offer a unique value proposition in a space more known for inside jokes than serious efforts toward innovation. 36. Meme Coins That Still Have Market Traction in 2022 Coins based on memes and online pranks, known as meme coins, are a form of digital currency. 37. Is There Such a Thing as Too Many Cryptocurrencies? An excessive number of cryptocurrencies and an endless rollout of ICOs can be problematic for the image of the crypto world. 38. Bitcoin vs Dogecoin: An Honest Comparison Bitcoin and Dogecoin are two popular cryptocurrencies. Here is how they compare regarding market supply, concentration, mining, and transactions. 39. In The BTC Vs. USD Battle, My Money's on DOGE: Here's Why Could it really be true Dogecoin is better than Bitcoin for widespread adoption and usage by a national or pseudo-national entity? 40. 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How a Single Elon Musk Tweet can Change Cryptocurrency Prices Elon Musk tweets about Dogecoin and everyone starts buying: find out how he and other crypto influencers affect the prices of cryptocurrency in this piece. 45. Understanding Meme Economy While traditional investing moves along the lines of traditional media, the meme economy is developed as a result of user-generated investment strategies. 46. You HODL Dogecoin? What seems like millennia ago, but was only about a year ago, I wrote on HN about Dogecoin's value proposition being worth a penny. I just wrote my response to my adult sons when they had asked why I had started accumulating Dogecoin. This essay is similar. This is essentially my response to their queries when they learned I was still HODL'ing my Dogecoin. 47. Cats, Computers, & Working From Home Fails Top writers and editors at Hackernoon share their working from home fails with fluffy individuals jealous for attention otherwise known as cats. 48. Always Bet Musk's Oxen! Fresh off the Virgin Martian Express, Jackson had a layover at the Blue Origin moon base. He was trying to get to the Starbase Autonomous Zone 49. Security.org Knows 15 Million Americans Will Be Buying Cryptocurrency in the Next Year Twelve years after the Bitcoin network came into existence in 2009, we asked nearly 1,300 U.S adults about their familiarity, ownership, and confidence in cryptocurrencies, from Dogecoin to Ethereum, and everything in between. One highlight?  Nearly 15 million Americans plan to purchase crypto for the first time in the next year. 50. How I Built a Bot to Help Buy Doge or BTC When Elon Musk’s Tweets About Them this post contains a lot of affiliate link because all tools that I recommend are necessary to run the bot and provide a simple indirect way to funding the project without charging end-user 51. Dogecoin: Everything You Wanted To Know About This Memecoin Making A Mockery of 'Serious' Crypto Can a cryptocurrency that started as a joke become a serious asset? Here is a quick guide on the Dogecoin ecosystem, how to start mining some, and its future. 52. Analyzing Dogecoin Tweet Sentiment in Real Time How to analyze Dogecoin tweet sentiment in real-time with a new managed Kafka platform. 53. The Dogecoin Salut on The HackerNoon Podcast Welcome to this beautiful corner of the internet - Dogecoin meets partying & decentralization. Amy Tom talks to Gary Lachance, a Vancouver Dogecoin millionaire. Thank you for checking out the 53 most read stories about Dogecoin on HackerNoon. to find the most read stories about any technology. Visit the /Learn Repo

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is a company co-founded by Sam Altman, the now-infamous CEO of OpenAI (of ChatGPT fame). The premise for the company’s flagship project, , is simple: Tools for Humanity WorldCoin Exponential improvements in Artificial Intelligence technology will one day lead to the creation of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). When this happens, the global economy will be disrupted beyond recognition by job destruction, wealth concentration, etc. A post-AGI world will need something resembling a Universal Basic Income (UBI): money with no strings attached to par inequalities. AI improvements will make proving that someone online is a human very difficult. But, for UBI projects to work, you will need to verify that the people receiving it are real and are not cheating the system. So far, so good, right? It’s, however, all downhill from here. WorldCoin is the weirdest project happening in the tech world right now. How does WorldCoin “work”? To solve the issues mentioned above, WorldCoin has a two-step plan. . First, the company wants to scan your eyes This is being done using metallic spheres the size of bowling balls called . You Stare Into the Orb, and the Orb Stares Back at you. The device uses a thermal scanner to check people’s body temperature, a 3D camera to map out their faces, and high-resolution cameras to capture video and images of their bodies, faces, eyes, and irises. Orbs The irises are supposedly the important part. Since , it’s possible to create a code based on this specific biometric information. This unique crypto-graphic identifier is called a “World ID” or “IrisHash.” This code would supposedly replace IDs in an AI-dominated future. all irises are different unique If that feels like random techno-babble, trust your instincts. If this was it, this project would be creepy… but not nefarious. But no. Altman and his goons aren’t thinking about the future. They’re trying to peddle a cryptocurrency. Once your irises have been scanned, you download an app (there’s always an app). is yet another crypto wallet, which you can log onto by linking it to your IrisHash and proving you’re a human. At this point, you automatically receive some WorldCoins, which are supposed to be the basis for a new post-AGI, UBI-based economic order. This is your reward for selling out your biometrics. The World App , WorldCoins is not backed by any cash flows and are not tied to a fiat currency. Unlike other tokens, it doesn’t give , either. It is essentially worthless. Like most cryptos voting powers Congrats, you sold your eyes for something worth less than a Chuck e Cheese token (~17 cents). Like everything in crypto, this is a silly solution looking for a problem. Why is WorldCoin a Bad Idea? More than 2 million people have supposedly already had their eyes scanned by one of the 300+ Orbs in the world today, with the ominous spheres popping up in most major cities of the world. It must be noted, however, that most of that data was gathered , in what can only be referred to as . in the developing world while violating privacy laws crypto-colonialism : As the MIT Technology Review writes It’s just cheaper and easier to run this kind of data collection operation in places where people have little money and few legal protections. Ay, there’s the rub! If some form of Universal Basic Income was created in the future, it would exist to help the global poor. And so far, . At all. the global poor used as guinea pigs don’t feel helped The project’s leadership also fails to address the risks of the Orbs being hacked or how (which is how most crypto-scams come to be) could be used to derail their plans for a fair and transparent UBI system. And don’t expect transparency on this any time soon. social engineering As the reports: MIT Technology Review WorldCoin has promised to open source its code, including repeating to MIT Technology Review on multiple occasions that this would occur “within the next few weeks” — since we first contacted the company in February. Oh, the guy building a super-intelligent AI is compiling a permanent electronic identification database of all humans and refusing to explain how he’s using that data. That’s not an alarming science-fiction premise at all. Obviously, regulators will have something to say about the project if it gains traction because we have systems to distribute money to people in need. They are based on national identity and work fairly well. Sure, there is some fraud… but that fraud is usually committed like Sam Altman and his backers. UBI isn’t happening because we lack the technology; it’s happening because we lack the political will to do it. But that’s a story for another day. already by rich people Why does WorldCoin exist, really? WorldCoin is backed up by the usual crypto suspects: , , and (maybe?) are all investors. Coincidentally, these are all venture capitalists . Andreessen Horowitz Khosla Ventures Three Arrows Capital with massive crypto-related losses These people didn’t invest because they cared about the world’s poor or privacy. To them, this is a last-ditch effort to make fetch happen and recoup some of their losses. It didn’t work in the West, so they’re now . setting their sights on the global south Want UBI? Scared of AI? They will spin it however they can to get you onboard. They hope that using enough buzzwords like AI, , , and will make users forget about WorldCoin’s core concept. Which, again, . biometric data verification censorship-resistant transfer Sybil attacks is getting your eyeball scanned for free If the team in charge of WorldCoin was serious about UBI, they would be working on the political will to give money to people all over the world. But that’s . And that would make WorldCoin a tech company. It would make it a . And tech bros profits. The fact that makes that abundantly clear. difficult not non-profit love investors hold 10%+ of the WorldCoin supply I have no doubt that Sam Altman has good intentions. But that doesn’t really matter, does it? There is a reason the phrase “ ” exists. Actions speak louder than words, and right now, his actions point to him building a crypto- . the road to hell is paved with good intentions Panopticon The project launched “officially” in late July. The quicker it goes back to obscurity, the better. Good luck out there. Also published . here

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In today’s episode of the Brains Byte Back podcast, we speak with , CEO of , an end-to-end platform that allows companies to achieve their expansion needs through finding, hiring, retaining, and paying talent. Pablo Miller Remoti To start the show Miller shares how Remoti is a total talent platform that connects companies with talent in Latin America, and advocates that the platform offers three main services: talent connection, talent employment, and people products. People products include retention plans, smooth onboarding and offboarding processes, and the upcoming launch of their recruitment app. He also shares the origin story of Remoti, explaining that the initial basis of the company was established in the UK seven years ago when Miller noticed the demand for salespeople in London’s fintech companies and started a small recruitment firm. He recognized the need for a different approach and aimed to build a business that understood and provided a unique service. While visiting Colombia, the country his mother is from, Miller witnessed the rise of second-generation Latin talent and the potential for innovation in the market and decided to set up operations in Colombia, serving clients from the US and UK. company culture The conversation then moves onto the topic of the future of and innovation. With this in mind, Remoti aims to connect Latin American professionals with global companies that can offer better opportunities and development. remote work Miller also shares how he believes remote work promotes and breaks down geographical barriers, providing opportunities for talented individuals who may not have access to the same resources locally. social mobility And finally, Miller shares insights on how to hire talent quickly and effectively for your business. He states that those looking to hire should consider international perspectives, local preferences, benefits, upskilling opportunities, and candidate output rather than focusing solely on universities. https://youtu.be/fM9YyO_so6I?embedable=true I’m the founder and CEO my main role and this business, it has been said, is to keep the lights on, turn off the fires and keep it all together. Remoti is a platform that allows companies to build technology hubs in Latin America. As I like to call it, we’re a total talent platform in the sense that we offer three services. Number one, we connect you to the talent. Number two, we employ the talent for you. And then number three, we call it people products. So we’re able to locally hire your talent and we have a number of retention products to ensure a smooth onboarding off-boarding and several retention plans. Alongside that will be launching our app in the next coming months, which allowed the whole recruitment process to be done for your template. Pablo Miller: Fantastic. thank you for joining us today, and thank you for taking a break from putting out those fires and making sure those lights are kept on. And I really want to kick off with how did Remoti first start? Samuel Brake Guia: So Remoti, which was formerly known as Fincrew, actually started in the UK seven years ago. So I was brought up in the UK. I was at Nottingham University, studying Politics and Sociology, and this was in 2008 when everyone hated the banks and the rise of Fintech started rising. So, I noticed that all these small, Fintechs in London, needed, graduate salespeople, and from Nottingham University, we set up a very small recruitment company. When I was doing that, I noticed that all the cool Fintech companies really didn’t like recruiters, they thought that we were transactional. They thought that we didn’t actually understand the company culture. Pablo Miller: So I wanted to build a business that was a bit different and the idea was actually set up the company in the US and then, my mother’s from Armenia, Quindío and I came on holiday to Colombia before I set up the business, and I saw something truly amazing happening in Latin America which was, first of all, the rise of, second-generation Latin talent, both locally and the ones that have gone abroad to study or work in other companies and have come back and secondly, and the markets here were just right for innovation and for disruption and so I had one investor at the time and I told him instead of, wiring the money to our Chase account in the US, can you wire it to our Bancolombia account here in Bogota and we set up the operation in Colombia, servicing US and UK clients. So we kind of trod along, working there, within their clients just operations here that everything was with outside markets and then the pandemic here and this is when everyone for okay, I don’t need to hire locally, Latin America is a market with a lot of potential. Let’s have a look at that time and that’s when Remoti was built in terms of being kind of the bridge between the West and LATAM. And that essentially has been now for the last three years. : Fantastic. I have to say, I do completely understand what you mean when you talk about the potential here in Latin America and I have to say as well that it’s great to speak with you being based in Bogota because I definitely do feel like there’s an energy within the startup ecosystem, especially in Medellin and Bogota that I really love and it’s so surprising to see. And most people might not think of that if they’ve not been down here of how much potential there is here. So it’s so great to hear of this success story coming out from essentially my own back garden, well where I live anyway, at least obviously not being from here myself, but I want to know on a separate note, Remoti, what’s the story behind that name? How did that come about? Samuel Brake Guia Yeah, great question. Just to kind of supplement what you’re saying, when people ask us, we’ve managed to scale a team, to 70 people. And we took very limited funding and our secret sauce has always been our people. There is great energy in this country. And people want to work for companies where they’re treated, where they’re respected and therefore this is why when foreign companies look at Latin America and Colombia and it’s a great place to start a business. Pablo Miller: So when we change the name from Fincrew which was meant to be like fintech recruitment to Remoti, we wanted to give a real remote work vibe and secondly, because we’re building a bunch of technology. If you are onboarding products of boarding products for our salary benchmark products, we want to obviously have the technology infrastructure, so really Remoti stands for remote technology infrastructure and we get good feedback from our clients because it says exactly what we do. Because ultimately you can’t just set up a remote team. Number one, it is very hard to hire local people if you’re based UK or China or whatever. And then to actually hire them properly to ensure that their payroll, legal taxes and all that are done accordingly and also to retain them. So that’s where the name remote technology infrastructure comes from that. If you want to just build a remote team, you just integrate pur platform into your business and off you go. That’s nice. Yeah, it does have that real startup vibe. I can see that in the name and I think it reflects what you do. We’ve obviously spoken a lot about the company here, but I would love to know some more insights. So can you share some insights on what companies have to do in order to secure top talent? Samuel Brake Guia: Yeah, so it’s also quite an interesting topic obviously, in the market that we’re in. Last year, our key markets, we work along with Fintech clients, we worked a lot with Web 3 clients, and obviously with the down market, we’ve had to find alternative markets, to find growth in these, tricky market conditions. So we look at one market that’s growing very fast for us is actually ERP Implementation Consultants. So these folks go into companies to implement in this SAP, Salesforce, Workday and traditionally you’d have to hire someone locally, and what these big institutions, found that actually make sense to have some folks based in Argentina, based in Cali, Bogota. And they design implementing, literally from here and it’s a remote role. Pablo Miller: So, for us, we’re very easy to work with in the sense that we find a client. They tell us what their needs are. We then tell them exactly where we believe in the region that can be a talent pool, we conduct salary benchmark reports, So we’re in contact with Finance to ensure that it’s in conjunction with them, We then assign a full team and that team, our slogan is “Quality at pace”, that team works full time for that assignment and then we’ll be able to deliver results very very quickly at the highest quality to our clients. : Fantastic. it sounds like you got it. Very nailed down. And I am so happy to see that there’s so much innovation in this space because I think remote work really does feel like it’s here to stay and as someone that feels the benefits of this. And I know so many other people have as well. It’s so exciting to see it flourish really. The benefits of this are just I think so profound that it’s great to see that you’re working on innovating in this space to make sure it prevails really. Samuel Brake Guia : Absolutely. And I think one of the key things, from my story. My mother was from Armenia, she traveled to the UK, my dad is English and we’re very fortunate that we went to, good schools, good universities, we learn how to communicate well. And that obviously gave us a lot of opportunities for me and my sister when it came to jobs. So really my vision with remote work is, I want to get that untouched talent of Latin America that has all that potential. We want to help them connect with companies that locally may not be able to pay them as well. May not be able to develop them as well, and may not be able to give them the opportunities. And so there’s a wonderful kind of social mobility angle to the rise of remote work. Pablo Miller : Yeah. Breaking down borders. That is a wonderful side effect of this, the remote work digital world that I can see here. And I also have to say I’ve seen on your blog that you have a post titled, how to recruit fast Six practical strategies to hire quickly. Now I would definitely recommend listeners, go and check that out. But while I have you here, I would love to cover a few insights that you can share based on this article, as well as your own knowledge and how our listeners can hire quickly and effectively. Samuel Brake Guia : Yeah, absolutely. I think one of the key things that, obviously supplements the title is that you’ve got to think internationally and at the same time, think realistic. So as you know being based in Medellin, someone from Medlelin is very different from someone in Bogota. So as a business you need to understand the differences of particular people and, particular geographical candidates who would like, in terms of benefits the way they want to work, some people want to work, hybrid, and someone people want to work remotely. Number two, you need to be able to give them access to upscale courses locally as well. if we’re looking, hiring someone in Europe, maybe they’re not that interested in, having English courses, for example, as opposed to candidates in Latin America, and number three, you need to obviously be open-minded and not be kind of judgmental about universities. Always look at the output that these candidates achieve. So if a candidate has done incredible work at a local startup, they should not be discounted if they haven’t been to Harvard or something. It’s very important to have these sort of mindsets when looking at hiring and connection. Pablo Miller I think that’s some solid advice there and I think it can be surprising just how much of a difference there can be when it comes to even small distances, like you mentioned, Medellin to Bogota. And I think you can find that across many countries and I do want to know, are there other companies operating in this space? And if so, how do you differentiate yourself from the competition? Samuel Brake Guia: : Great question. So HR tech, it’s certainly a crowded space and number two, I mean there’s a lot of companies now saying, I can help you find talent in Latin America, it’s cheap, etc. You have got to be very cautious about this in the sense that certain companies are trying to just sell Latin America for the cheap economic sense. But really Latin America is a great example of the modern workforce, the folks that are developers here, they not the ones that have been building databases in a bank for about 30 years, it’s that kind of millennial developer the self-taught, worked at startups. And so where we differentiate ourselves is that we have access to the modern workforce that can build modern digital products. And secondly, we’ve been focusing more on corporate clients, they hate finding new supplies for everything. So given that we’re a total talent platform. Pablo Miller They have three essential services from finding to hiring to retaining talent. It means the clients can with one provider, solve the whole problem. So when I look at competitive Ontop, fabulous business, great founders, but they just offer the payroll solutions, they don’t offer retention products. They don’t offer talent scout. And then obviously deal who are one of the pioneers and this amazing, payroll business. When the pandemic hit they got great technology, they really just focus on the payments and payroll side and so really if you don’t retain the candidates, it’s hard to offer them payroll. So this Remoti fits in well and we can offer all three services. Most importantly we have access to the modern workforce and we have tools in order to retain them and also to attract them to your business. That makes a lot of sense. I can see that and I do like the idea that this modern world is more of a meritocracy, it matters less where you are and just more about your skills and your ability. And I think that that’s really important because I really dislike the fact that so much is dictated by where you’re born. And I think that when job opportunities are open to everyone in the world, that just feels like it’s more of a meritocracy, the way it should be. And really my last question to you is what’s next on the horizon? Samuel Brake Guia: Yeah. absolutely. So, at the moment, as I mentioned we’ll be launching our app and our app is super interesting because, like most problems in life, most problems are caused by, bad communication. So, our industry has a very bad reputation for candidates not being given proper feedback or candidates not being fully prepared or candidates not being rejected probably. So we’ve got a communication tool that candidates can download and they seamlessly go through the whole recruitment process and all the communication between the candidate, client, and recruiter is in one place. Number two, in terms of the payroll, the digital wallet will be in the app so they can track their payments. Pablo Miller: They can also track when they will be paid. And number three will be building a marketplace where there’s going to be upsell. So we’re going to be offering our community of developer language courses and also development courses. And so really in one place, you’d be able to find a job. You’ll be able to grow financially. Number three, you’ll be able to upskill. So essentially we’re digitalizing this community and helping them, regardless of where you are in Latin America to find a great job, be paid accordingly and also to be upskilling. And that is really our passion for the modern workforce. Fantastic. if people are listening and they want to keep up with the work that you folks are doing. Pablo, what’s the best way for them to do that?Pablo Miller: So obviously the main channels, we have LinkedIn. We also have Instagram with Facebook and also on our website. We also have two offices, one in Bogota and Medellin, so people are welcome to come in for a coffee, would be delighted to host them. And, from candidates to clients, we have an open-door policy and are always very happy to virtually meet. Samuel Brake Guia: This article was originally published by on Samuel Brake Guia The Sociable.

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Hello Developers! The Round 2 winners of The Web Development and Ecommerce Writing Contest are announced! For those hearing about it for the first time, here's some context: HackerNoon and Elastic Path have organized the Web Development and Ecommerce Writing Contest. You can win from an impressive $12,000 prize pool by writing on web development or ecommerce. We've now entered the final round. Share your story today! Check out this prompt to write a story on #web-development.
To write a story on #ecommerce, feel free to use this prompt. Round 2 Nominations For selecting the top 10 nominations, we picked all the stories with the #web-development and Ecommerce tags on HackerNoon, published in round 2. Then we chose the top stories using a 60:30:10 weightage ratio for: Number of hours read
The number of people reached
The freshness of the content #Web-Development: Top 10 Stories How Coding Education Prepares Kids for Life – Not Just Careers by @lomitpatel
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How To Customize an OpenAI Chatbot With Embedding by @hacker7182015
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APIs to Foster Loyalty in Your Customers by @alexolson
How to Use Intent-Based Promotions to Drive E-commerce Revenue by @maxikuznetsov
Innovation in The Yachting Industry: What to Build in a Not-So-Known Industry by @notarseniy
Why Retail Stores Are More Vulnerable Than Ever to Cybercrime by @howierobleza
The Future of Retail: The Convergence of Physical and Online Stores by @michealchukwube
Shoppable Videos: The Untapped Market for Video Commerce? by @techsis
Cross-selling in eCommerce Matters: A Technical Guide for Upselling Online by @sasha754 Round 2 Winners To select the winners, we ran internal polls on the top 10 nominations. Our editors weighed in, and here are the final results. #Web-Development Writing Contest Winners In the first place, we have: https://hackernoon.com/how-i-built-and-sold-an-ai-powered-gift-idea-generator?embedable=true My idea was simple:

Capture data about someone. Enough to get a sense of who they were.
Use that data to generate a dynamic prompt using GPT-3’s natural language engine.
Interpret the result and display it using Bubble.
Link the result text to a product on Amazon/anywhere.
Show the results as a “Comparison” page at the end of the process. Congratulations @simonblogs! You have won $1000! The second position is won by: https://hackernoon.com/git-explained-in-5-levels-of-difficulty?embedable=true GIT is like a magic notebook where you can write down all the changes you make to your computer projects.
Do you know when you draw a picture, and you can't erase it or make it like before?
Sometimes, when we work on big projects, we also want to go back and see the older versions of our pictures. @mcsee has won $600! In the third place, we have: https://hackernoon.com/the-lazy-programmers-guide-to-maintaining-a-personal-website?embedable=true In the following, we will therefore take a look at how to build and maintain a personal website with minimal effort in 10 easy steps. Because, while we may love coding, we also love time away from the computer. 🌳🤸🍝 Congratulations on winning $400, @judicodes! #Ecommerce Writing Contest Winners The first position is won by: https://hackernoon.com/cross-selling-in-ecommerce-matters-a-technical-guide-for-upselling-online?embedable=true This is a basic collaborative filtering recommender system that combines user-based and item-based approaches and can be used in a variety of e-commerce projects, particularly those with a large number of SKUs, to provide a wide range of recommendations. Congratulations, @sasha754! You have won $500! In the second place, we have: https://hackernoon.com/amazons-entry-into-the-nft-market-implications-and-challenges?embedable=true While the move is exciting for the NFT market, there are several challenges that Amazon will need to overcome, including volatility, competition, and regulatory concerns. Yay, @lavaniya! you have won $300! The third position is won by: https://hackernoon.com/the-future-of-retail-the-convergence-of-physical-and-online-stores?embedable=true Personalization is key in the future of retail, and hybrid shopping is leading the way. Utilizing big data and AI, retailers can now analyze consumer behavior and preferences to provide customized recommendations, creating a more intimate shopping experience for each customer. With this kind of understanding, retailers can better cater to the needs and wants of their customers, making every shopping experience a unique and enjoyable one. Congratulations,@michealchukwube! You have won $200! Congratulations to all the winners again! We will contact y’all shortly. Visit contests.hackernoon.com today to check out the currently running contests. We are launching three new contests in April! Check out this prompt to write a story on #web-development.
To write a story on #ecommerce, use this prompt. Hello Developers! The Round 2 winners of The Web Development and Ecommerce Writing Contest are announced! For those hearing about it for the first time, here's some context: HackerNoon and Elastic Path have organized the Web Development and Ecommerce Writing Contest . You can win from an impressive $12,000 prize pool by writing on web development or ecommerce. We've now entered the final round. Share your story today! Elastic Path Web Development and Ecommerce Writing Contest Check out this prompt to write a story on #web-development. To write a story on #ecommerce, feel free to use this prompt. Check out this prompt to write a story on # web-development . web-development To write a story on #ecommerce, feel free to use this prompt . use this prompt Round 2 Nominations For selecting the top 10 nominations, we picked all the stories with the #web-development and Ecommerce tags on HackerNoon, published in round 2. Then we chose the top stories using a 60:30:10 weightage ratio for: Number of hours read The number of people reached The freshness of the content Number of hours read The number of people reached The freshness of the content #Web-Development: Top 10 Stories How Coding Education Prepares Kids for Life – Not Just Careers by @lomitpatel Celebrating Women in STEM and Encouraging the Next Generation by @lomitpatel 32 Awesome JavaScript Snippets (one-liners) You Should Use in 2023  by @RAHULISM GIT: Explained in 5 Levels of Difficulty by @mcsee How To Customize an OpenAI Chatbot With Embedding by @hacker7182015 The Lazy Programmer's Guide to Maintaining a Personal Website by @judicodes How to Keep Your Code SOLID by @oxymoron_31 How to Become a Blockchain Developer: How These 10 Pros Did It by @emmmanuelnwaka The Only API You Need! by @lukaszwronski How I Built (and Sold) an AI-Powered Gift Idea Generator by @simonblogs How Coding Education Prepares Kids for Life – Not Just Careers by @lomitpatel How Coding Education Prepares Kids for Life – Not Just Careers @lomitpatel Celebrating Women in STEM and Encouraging the Next Generation by @lomitpatel Celebrating Women in STEM and Encouraging the Next Generation @lomitpatel 32 Awesome JavaScript Snippets (one-liners) You Should Use in 2023 by @RAHULISM 32 Awesome JavaScript Snippets (one-liners) You Should Use in 2023 @RAHULISM GIT: Explained in 5 Levels of Difficulty by @mcsee GIT: Explained in 5 Levels of Difficulty @mcsee How To Customize an OpenAI Chatbot With Embedding by @hacker7182015 How To Customize an OpenAI Chatbot With Embedding @hacker7182015 The Lazy Programmer's Guide to Maintaining a Personal Website by @judicodes The Lazy Programmer's Guide to Maintaining a Personal Website @judicodes How to Keep Your Code SOLID by @oxymoron_31 How to Keep Your Code SOLID @oxymoron_31 How to Become a Blockchain Developer: How These 10 Pros Did It by @emmmanuelnwaka How to Become a Blockchain Developer: How These 10 Pros Did It @emmmanuelnwaka The Only API You Need! by @lukaszwronski The Only API You Need! @lukaszwronski How I Built (and Sold) an AI-Powered Gift Idea Generator by @simonblogs How I Built (and Sold) an AI-Powered Gift Idea Generator @simonblogs #Ecommerce: Top 10 Stories Sustainability in Ecommerce: What Are The Possibilities? by @juxtathinka How AI and Machine Learning are Reshaping SaaS FinTech by @eliaspeak Amazon's Entry Into the NFT Market: Implications and Challenges by @lavaniya APIs to Foster Loyalty in Your Customers by @alexolson How to Use Intent-Based Promotions to Drive E-commerce Revenue by @maxikuznetsov Innovation in The Yachting Industry: What to Build in a Not-So-Known Industry by @notarseniy Why Retail Stores Are More Vulnerable Than Ever to Cybercrime by @howierobleza The Future of Retail: The Convergence of Physical and Online Stores by @michealchukwube Shoppable Videos: The Untapped Market for Video Commerce? by @techsis Cross-selling in eCommerce Matters: A Technical Guide for Upselling Online by @sasha754 Sustainability in Ecommerce: What Are The Possibilities? by @juxtathinka Sustainability in Ecommerce: What Are The Possibilities? @juxtathinka How AI and Machine Learning are Reshaping SaaS FinTech by @eliaspeak How AI and Machine Learning are Reshaping SaaS FinTech @eliaspeak Amazon's Entry Into the NFT Market: Implications and Challenges by @lavaniya Amazon's Entry Into the NFT Market: Implications and Challenges @lavaniya APIs to Foster Loyalty in Your Customers by @alexolson APIs to Foster Loyalty in Your Customers @alexolson How to Use Intent-Based Promotions to Drive E-commerce Revenue by @maxikuznetsov How to Use Intent-Based Promotions to Drive E-commerce Revenue @maxikuznetsov Innovation in The Yachting Industry: What to Build in a Not-So-Known Industry by @notarseniy Innovation in The Yachting Industry: What to Build in a Not-So-Known Industry @notarseniy Why Retail Stores Are More Vulnerable Than Ever to Cybercrime by @howierobleza Why Retail Stores Are More Vulnerable Than Ever to Cybercrime @howierobleza The Future of Retail: The Convergence of Physical and Online Stores by @michealchukwube The Future of Retail: The Convergence of Physical and Online Stores @michealchukwube Shoppable Videos: The Untapped Market for Video Commerce? by @techsis Shoppable Videos: The Untapped Market for Video Commerce? @techsis Cross-selling in eCommerce Matters: A Technical Guide for Upselling Online by @sasha754 Cross-selling in eCommerce Matters: A Technical Guide for Upselling Online @sasha754 Round 2 Winners To select the winners, we ran internal polls on the top 10 nominations. Our editors weighed in, and here are the final results. #Web-Development Writing Contest Winners In the first place, we have: https://hackernoon.com/how-i-built-and-sold-an-ai-powered-gift-idea-generator?embedable=true https://hackernoon.com/how-i-built-and-sold-an-ai-powered-gift-idea-generator?embedable=true My idea was simple: Capture data about someone. Enough to get a sense of who they were.
Use that data to generate a dynamic prompt using GPT-3’s natural language engine.
Interpret the result and display it using Bubble.
Link the result text to a product on Amazon/anywhere.
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Utilizing big data and AI, retailers can now analyze consumer behavior and preferences to provide customized recommendations, creating a more intimate shopping experience for each customer. With this kind of understanding, retailers can better cater to the needs and wants of their customers, making every shopping experience a unique and enjoyable one. Personalization is key in the future of retail, and hybrid shopping is leading the way. Utilizing big data and AI, retailers can now analyze consumer behavior and preferences to provide customized recommendations, creating a more intimate shopping experience for each customer. With this kind of understanding, retailers can better cater to the needs and wants of their customers, making every shopping experience a unique and enjoyable one. Congratulations, @michealchukwube ! You have won $200! @michealchukwube Congratulations to all the winners again! We will contact y’all shortly. 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Setting goals is essential for a genuinely success-oriented person. However, you can't keep doing the same thing expecting different results. It's not enough to set goals; you must have the discipline and system to execute them. You’re disciplined and skilled in setting goals does not automatically make you a goal-getter. Goals are not fixed only on paper; another phase is goal execution. While you may be good at setting goals, you must develop the same to execute them. Your lack of discipline in goal execution may be a few factors. Here are some factors that may be affecting the execution of your financial goals. Factors That Might Be Affecting Your Financial Goal Different and various factors could be responsible for your lack of goal execution. These factors may be internal, which includes your fears, doubt, and lack of discipline or may be external. Spending Triggers Spending triggers, also referred to as emotional expenditures, are the act of spending based on impulse or emotions. You keep buying what you don't need based on an obsession with the product or the product's pull on you. You’d have to learn to control your spending triggers to be on track with your financial goals. No Budget A costly mistake you’d make this year is if you still don't have a budget that tracks how much comes in and goes out. People may say, “I don't know where my money goes.” You can't know because you don't have a structure that tracks your spending. A budget helps you to prioritize your spending; that is, you’d have covered your necessities on a scale of preference before you can attempt to accumulate expenses on frivolities. Your spendings are in check. People don't want to create a budget for this reason; they do not want to be in check or under any form of accountability. They don't want to take responsibility for their spending. Discipline gets you what you want and makes you become what you want. Savings Saving money can be for multiple reasons, e.g., your daughter’s wedding, purchase of a car etc. Savings is keeping part of what you have for the future. The first cure for a lean purse is to start saving money. The man in the story, The Richest Man In Babylon, by George Clason, saved ten percent of his income and slowly increased his savings over time. If you don't see any reason to save, two things should inspire you to begin to save today. Having an emergency fund and education fund. . Emergencies are inevitable, they emerge from nowhere, but you don't want to be caught unaware. We must always be prepared for the inevitable. The emergency fund covers your expenses for 3-6 months. It's something you can rely upon in case of emergency An educational fund is an amount of money you set aside to educate yourself, which include buying books, courses, college fee etc. Learning is a lifelong process and improves your chances of making more money because knowledge is real money. Going for a better-paying Job This year, improve your value by going for that better-paying job or starting that business you’ve always had in mind. You can't keep allowing your low-paying job to keep limiting you from enjoying the lifestyle you’ve always dreamt of, primarily when you know you’ve worked so hard for yourself. Take the bold step! Have a passive income A passive income is an income you earn without much effort. Having a passive income expands your financial capacity with minimal effort. There are many ways you can earn from passive income today. You can invest in stock. Write and sell a book or digital products. Convert your items into an asset that’ll bring you money in the long run. How You Should Set Your Financial Goals Goals may be short-term and long-term. You need to prioritize these two but keep in mind that your financial goals should not be set too low and should be SMART, that is, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-Based. Your short-term goals for the year could be set monthly or weekly. But one long-term goal you should have for the year is becoming a millionaire or billionaire. The aim of setting this goal is not the money but what it will make of you to achieve it. Setting these goals will make you a better person when you achieve them or when you are in the process of achieving them. Bottom Line A famous quote, “An idea without action is stillborn,” when you’re setting that financial goal ensures that you have the discipline to execute them. Don't just set goals, set systems that’ll help you achieve them. The difference between this year, your previous years, and your next is your ability to execute those goals you’ve written down.

Achieving Your Financial  Goals: What To Consider Before Setting Those Goals

Building a profitable business is impossible alone. A person cannot perfectly understand all the processes necessary to achieve a result. That is why both a beginner entrepreneur and a successful leader always have a team that helps create and improve a product. The founder can use in-house specialists or cooperate with outsourcing companies for delegation. Findstack predicts that business process outsourcing will reach by 2032. Every day more people realize the importance of delegation, which allows a business to grow and attract new customers. $620 billion 3 Main Types of Delegation Delegation is the transfer of responsibilities to specialists from the team or to outsourcing. Thanks to this action, the leader unloads themself from routine tasks and concentrates on more important ones that require their intervention. Since various factors influence the process of work, there are three main types of delegation: Full and Partial Delegation. Full delegation implies that the leader transfers tasks to the employee for consistent execution, and all responsibility for the result is now on them. The manager can contact this employee for information clarification or control the implementation, but they do not take part in it. The manager uses partial delegation when the task is too big, and there is not enough time to work. In this case, only part of the duty is transferred to the specialist, and several people are already responsible for the result. General and Specific Delegation. General delegation allows an employee to deal with several areas at once in their department. At the same time, this employee must report the project's current status to the manager. A specific delegation refers to a particular task on a project. It may be collecting material for the customer, communication with the client, or documentation analysis. Such delegation ends when the project comes to an end. Formal and Informal Delegation. Formal delegation is part of the requirements specified in the contract between the customer and the contractors. In this format, the employee is responsible to the manager, as defined in the documents. An informal delegation has no obligations. This type is used when the tasks are part of a job description (without a formal mandate). You can see these types of delegation in every existing company. Each is a way to communicate effectively with subordinates and speed up the workflow. Why Delegation Is Important A successful entrepreneur knows that delegation is one of the main components of a growing and developing business. Delegation allows you to keep yourself in good shape and concentrate only on tasks that are important for the manager. If you are wondering why delegation is the boom of the 21st century — you need to familiarize yourself with its benefits. Burnout Prevention The balance between work and ordinary life is essential for every person, regardless of position. Even the most experienced entrepreneur will not be able to perform all the processes in the company on their own for a long time — this will end in burnout and loss of interest in business processes. Delegation helps to separate working and free time. It gives the business owner the right to rest and receive energy for further enterprise development. Delegation keeps all departments productive, relieves stress, and frees time to acquire new knowledge. The delegation will keep the entrepreneur in good shape and allow them to look at their business from the outside. Budget Savings Aspiring entrepreneurs face delegation difficulties due to the lack of a budget for maintaining in-house specialists. For example, to develop a website for a business, you need a whole team consisting of programmers, a project manager, a business analyst, and a QA. In such cases, the startup manager has the opportunity to delegate the task to an outsourcing IT company. So the leader will be able not to spend the budget on monthly salaries, vacation pay, bonuses, and sick days. The outsourcing team will evaluate the project and, upon signing the cooperation agreement, will announce the final cost of services. You can say goodbye to them after completing the agreed tasks or hire them further as long as the need arises. Time Management Time is money. Most people know this truth, and the business owner does. To not waste it and use it with maximum productivity, you need to set tasks for yourself wisely and with the expectation of rest. In order to remain in the resource and smoothly lead the company to success, the leader hires people to whom they will shift some of their responsibility. Giving project tasks to outsourcing or in-house specialists, the manager learns to manage their time and trust essential aspects of the work to experienced people. Employee Engagement According to Hrcloud, only of employees are engaged in the workplace. Since this is a big problem for employers these days, more and more people are talking about delegation. 36% Delegation is an indicator for employees that the leader trusts them and is confident in the result. The worker immediately understands the responsibility put on them and is involved in the process much better. The specialist understands they are part of a big deal, and now they cannot let the whole team down. The delegation also improves the relationship between the leader and subordinates. It creates a close bond between people and allows for more communication. This format influences the company's growth and the pace at which the project is closed. Finding Leaders Companies are always looking for leaders among their employees who create excellent conditions for further career growth. There is training and education for employees to identify leadership qualities — business owners are ready to invest in this. Delegation is a way of discovering such people and inspiring them to display their abilities. It teaches people new skills and shows the field for creativity. Their training in practice in a short time will allow the business owner to retire a bit and do more critical work to promote the company. Having leaders in the team, you will not constantly check the completion of tasks and correct every specialist's action. How to Delegate If you decide to start delegating to grow your company, you need to understand that this is not an easy process. A leader cannot trust all tasks to all people. You need to know the delegation rules to create an ideal environment for business scaling: decide which tasks you will delegate; determine the outcome that the trusted task team should achieve; hire a person or a team to take on the project and talk about all the details of cooperation; create motivation for specialists that will inspire them to achieve the best result; tell the staff about your vision of the development and check the reporting throughout the process; evaluate the work fairly and make the necessary changes. If you are giving a project to an outsourcing team and worry about the final result, discuss your expectations and requirements before signing the contract so that each party does not incur losses. What Tasks Сan You Delegate Modern business owners need to understand the importance of delegation and know the benefits they get from it. You can delegate tasks for which there are experienced specialists on the market with excellent cases: content marketing, accounting, administrative tasks, HR tasks, IT, and much more. In 2022, most of the tasks outsourced were related to software development. Building on this, Exploding Topics says IT outsourcing spending is projected to reach in 2023. $519 billion Don't be afraid to delegate. All that is needed from the manager is to find good contractors, set clear goals, and trust the specialists who help hundreds of enterprises!

How Delegation Makes Businesses Successful

Java developers are unique people, but when hiring them, if you don’t follow the proper steps, it can be pretty easy to make the wrong hire. Something you don’t want to happen since it’ll cost you time and money. No matter which programming language is trending, a universal programming language will always remain the core of programming. One of those languages is Java, and something to know is that Java developers will always be in demand no matter what. Well, let’s not waste any more time because, in this article, we will find out how you can find and hire the best Java developers around the world. Let’s dive right in! What are the two different things to look into when choosing between a senior and junior java developer? First, have significant differences from each other. Junior Java developers will usually have between zero to two years of experience, and senior ones will have more than three years of experience. senior developers and junior developers An experienced Java developer can write optimized codes that are clean and easy to read. They possess strong knowledge of OOP concepts and deep knowledge of J2EE. Nevertheless, a senior java developer is good at error handling and debugging techniques. Top Java developers should easily understand runtime and garbage collections. Additionally, they should be able to write complex SQL queries and more. On the other hand, we have junior Java developers who can be worth the hire if they have the right ambitions and motivation to become great java developers. A top junior java developer should have adequate knowledge of Java, Enterprise Java Beans, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and a practical understanding of SQL/ORM. Ideal places to find top talent Java developers Source If you want to find top Java developers, here are a few ways you can do so: Try asking other developers who have already started a business or know someone that can give you expert advice on how to find top-end Java developers. Connections can always recommend trustworthy people they may have collaborated with. Personal recommendations: Most software developers will spend time on tech forums to exchange knowledge. Nevertheless, they may discuss the latest technologies in areas such as Oracle, Java Forum, Stack Overflow, and more. Forums: there are plenty of freelance sites on the web. The most popular ones are Freelancer, Toptal, Upwork, Guru, and more. Choosing a freelancer may be a difficult task to do because of the prices and tasks, but most freelance sites will offer you reviews and star ratings. Additionally, they climb the rankings whenever these freelance sites suspect they are getting good reviews. Freelance sites: LinkedIn is undoubtedly one of the most powerful B2B social media platforms on the web. It’s an excellent platform to use for hiring and is used by many professionals around the world. On LinkedIn, you can quickly check people’s CVs and easily contact them. LinkedIn: Powerful independent platforms such as GoodFirms, Clutch, and others, can list some of the best software development companies where developers specialize and if they have verified customer reviews. Independent platforms: What are other methods for hiring Java developers? Source Use a test assessment Java is a general-purpose language that is used in different environments. It’s one of the most popular programming languages for desktop applications, android app development, and embedded systems. Strong programming knowledge in Java is essential for junior programmers so they are prepared enough to pursue a professional career. The test is roughly ten minutes and might require you to complete a simple coding task. These coding tasks are evaluated in sets, some of which allow you to distinguish whether candidates are on the right track. Some of the best bets are to combine coding tests for evaluating analytical skills, ability tests, and more. First, therefore, you must conduct an to assess if your candidates have the adequate skills to be part of your team. online Java assessment Use job boards Job boards are a traditional way of hiring full-time and part-time developers. Moreover, let’s not forget that you can also use this method of hiring contractors as well. Different job boards have different characteristics, so attracting active job seekers is important. Here are some we recommend: One of the largest job boards that are specialized in IT talent and tech. Whenever you use this job board, it’ll help you maximize your exposure and the posting you receive. Dice: An alternative to LinkedIn, Glassdoor provides opportunities for employees to review and rate companies and find out more about their salaries in order to get in the field of the companies they’re interested in. It’s pretty similar to LinkedIn, but the communication level isn’t as advanced as LinkedIn. However, Glassdoor is good at showing you reviews of candidates and even companies, including comments that other people will include for you to see. Glassdoor: AngelList is excellent at connecting startups with investors and is a job board specifically for developers who want to work in innovative environments in an early funding stage. AngelList: If you’re seeking to hire local or original talent, Craigslist is a cost-effective way of doing so. You can do the screening process independently whenever you hire through job boards. Craigslist: Professional matching sites Professional matching sites are another popular way of hiring suitable candidates that fulfill your company's needs. This might be an ideal choice for companies that don’t have a large HR team and need help from online recruiters. Here are some powerful recruiting platforms you can consider using: You may have heard of Toptal before. It’s a professional matching service designed for sourcing top tech talents as independent contractors. Nevertheless, Toptal screens candidates and will only hire the . This makes the process easier for you and ensures you are hiring top-qualified candidates. Toptal: top 3% of submitted applications Is good at working with medium-sized and small businesses, including Enterprise businesses. ZipRecruiter uses the to match candidates' skills and include them on their top-rated site. ZipRecruiter: power of AI Hiring has a custom matching software algorithm you can use to find developers and software engineers with top and specialized skill sets. This site is perfect for identifying whether the candidate has adequate skills. Hired: Team hiring Team hiring is another alternative to hiring developers with your internal team. How is this done? Team hiring involves outsourcing your development team to a third party to manage their projects and the team’s composition for you. Here are a few powerful third parties that can do this: Provides high-class mentorship and educational resources you can use for identifying if your candidate is the right fit or not. This will help you seek and hire a team of trusted developers. X-Team: gigster can staff entire project teams for building apps that include software engineers, designers, solution architects, and product managers. Gigster: What skills do you need when hiring a Java architect role? A Java architect role is undoubtedly the most powerful senior role you can have when coding in Java. Usually, Java programmers with more than five years of experience in this role can be perfect candidates. These types of Java developers are skilled in handling multi-threads, exceptions, and data types and have a deep understanding of J2EE, Hibernate, and more. Let’s not forget that they should also have design patterns and SQL skills. Furthermore, here’s a checklist for assessing the skills of a Java architect: Adequate knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Design patterns and analysis Practical knowledge associated with SQL, ORM, and relational databases Sufficient familiarity with algorithms and data structures Knowledge of synchronization and multithreading To successfully break down things, hiring a java developer for certain application architecture will require you to assess skills such as knowledge of SOPA, microservices, jQuery, CSS, HTML, and more. Wrapping everything up We come to an end for this article. These are the top tips you should follow when finding and hiring the ideal java developer. But, of course, these are suggestions, and the ability to assess how well fit your candidate will depend on you at the end of the day. Hiring a java developer isn’t a piece of cake, and you need to carefully consider one when you find a set of qualified candidates. After all, it’s important you even have the skills to distinguish who is suitable for the job and who isn’t. These tips can help you assess your fit candidate much better, and now it’s up to you to put them into practice!

How to Find and Hire The Best Java Developers

Take a moment to think about these questions: Why do we cherish a freebie? Why are we thrilled when we complete our first 10k run? Why are some people keen on answering questions and spending hours writing articles on Wikipedia and Quora for free? Why are you even reading this article? What makes you tick? People do things for a reason. If we look deeper within ourselves and the world around us, we realize that we are all motivated by a myriad of drivers. These drives are what motivate us to act and commit to specific activities. Gamification The first thing that comes to our mind when we think about gamification is leaderboards, points, badges & levels. But the core idea of gamification goes beyond just adding these game elements to a product. It is designing human motivation into a system and placing the customer at the forefront of the design to make the overall synergy with the application, website, or product more seamless. According to Yu-kai Chou, one of the earliest pioneers of gamification, true gamification is when we tap into our core human drives that motivate us towards various decisions and activities. He then drilled down on these different motivations, which led to creating the groundbreaking gamification design framework: Octalysis, an octagon-shaped model bearing eight core drivers. Octalysis Framework Octalysis Framework The is a human-centric gamification design framework to help decipher all the motivational Core Drives that can be used to understand how to engineer and design for motivation within a particular setting and transform activities into meaningful and enriching experiences. Octalysis Framework Chou’s starting premise from within the Octalysis Framework was to maximize the motivation for desired behavioral outcomes through the use of 8 Core Drives (Meaning, Accomplishment, Empowerment, Ownership, Scarcity, Unpredictability, Avoidance). Let’s take a closer look. The 8 Core Drivers Every action we do stems from one or more of these core drivers. Without the presence of at least one of them, we will not be motivated or driven to act. Core Drive 1: Epic Meaning and Calling People like to feel that the work they are doing matters This core drive guides us to seek a higher purpose or meaning beyond our personal goals. It is the drive where the users are motivated as they feel like they are the chosen ones and are participating in something greater than themselves. Contributing for the good of others can be a great motivator. For Example : Wikipedia Stack Overflow The reason why people commit hours contributing to the above platforms is because of this Core Drive 1, where the users embark on the epic journey of making the world a better place by documenting and spreading knowledge. Free Rice Free Rice is a trivia-based website, supports the United Nations World Food Program by raising money to help 10 million people in the world have a meal, and they even made money off advertising while doing it. They did this by creating small challenges for their users. Upon successfully completing a challenge Free Rice donates 10 grains of rice to people in need, playing off a Core Drive concept called “humanity hero.” This is a powerful drive used by big businesses and leaders worldwide, asking you to put ‘the greater good’ above yourself. Apple Think about Apple. They don’t talk about their specs. They talk about “Changing the World,” and you were “The chosen one to make a difference.” Core Drive 2: Development and Accomplishment This drive is internal, as we all are driven to take on challenges to meet our desired goals. The crux here lies in the dimension of challenges since any reward is meaningless without feeling an actual accomplishment. There needs to be an effort, a hurdle that needs to be crossed. It should leave one with a sense of accomplishment as it is what pushes us to work harder to keep developing our skills and see ourselves progress. But not all progressions are intriguing and satisfactory. That’s why Yu-kai Chou underlines the importance of feeling proud of the new status. If there’s no interest in leveling up whatsoever, there won’t be any motivation either. What’s more fulfilling than looking back at the progress you’ve made? Many game elements aim at this core when showing the user their progress. We can find progress bars, badges, status symbols, and leaderboards among these tools. , many eCommerce sites these days make use of progress bars. When a consumer fills out payment details to purchase a product online, a progress bar indicates how far they are from finishing the process. It’s not by chance that this has become a staple for most sites to will their users onto the finish line, i.e., the purchase. For example Apps like such game mechanics as progress bars, badges, etc., to motivate their users to achieve their goals. Duolingo, Goodreads, and Fitbit use LinkedIn In the early days of LinkedIn, users rarely completed their profiles due to poor visual feedback of the progress made (insufficient Core Drive 2). That’s when LinkedIn introduced a profile progress bar, which helped increase the profile completion ratio by a staggering 60%. LinkedIn Progress Bar Core Drive 3: Empowerment of Creativity and Feedback Creation is beauty, all forms of it. We all have it. People need avenues to express themselves, and creativity is one of them. This core drive lets users use their creativity, view their results, get feedback and make adjustments. Here the user is engaged in a creative process where they try different combinations and strategies to get to a particular result. It can be as simple as making a playlist on Spotify or shooting a rainbow and posting it on Instagram. And the instant feedback that the users receive shows them the result of their work so that they can adjust their strategy if needed. Minecraft Minecraft is a classic example of Core Drive 3 because users are given the ability to express creativity by using simple building blocks (with thousands of combinations) to craft complex structures, can immediately taste the result of their choices, and make adjustments as they go. Core Drive 4: Ownership and Possession Everyone likes to own certain things, be it in the real world or in the digital world. The feeling of possessing something rare or expensive makes for a great motivator. In this Core Drive 4, users are motivated because they feel like they own or control something. This makes users want to increase, improve, protect, and even obtain more. It’s why we want to accumulate wealth or collect virtual coins. This Core Drive also provides emotional comfort and instills a sense of well-being and belonging to a society and cultural environment. Pokémon Go Pokémon Go focuses heavily on a Core Drive 4 concept called “ .” Each Pokémon captured is added to a collection and gives users a sense of ownership. Once players catch a few Pokémon, they are motivated to catch all of them, and the hunt continues. collection set Core Drive 5: Social Influence & Relatedness If used properly, it can be one of the most potent and long-lasting tools for motivating people. This core drive taps into all the social elements that motivate people: mentorship, social acceptance, social feedback, companionship, competition, and even envy. Has it ever happened to you that you bought something you didn’t need but just because it reminded you of your childhood? That’s relatedness which refers to the human need and tendency to nostalgia and emotional associations. Saregama — Caravaan One of the reasons why the Saregama Caravaan is so popular is Nostalgia. In an age of high tech Alexas, while everyone was busy adding more ways to listen to songs, Saregama Caravaan carved a niche for itself by looking the other way- back at a simpler age, an older time. Amazon People trust what they can relate to. Appealing to an emotional connection with other users builds a sense of trust and lowers the threshold to buy something. On Amazon, you must have come across the following statement while looking for products: “Customers who bought this item also bought…”. In fact, approximately 60% of Amazon’s revenue comes from the recommendations section. Leaderboards in fitness apps are another interesting example of social influence, as people check out their progress, compare and compete with others. Core Drive 6: Scarcity and Impatience If you can’t have it, you want it. We have all been there. It’s an innate desire of humans. And the sixth Core Drive addresses just that – the longing for something, simply because it is scarce, exclusive, or immediately unattainable. And because it is so difficult to obtain, its perceived value increases immensely. Even leading brands like have successfully used scarcity as a significant lever to influence choice. OnePlus Urgency has been greatly leveraged in eCommerce. You must have often come across sales promise bargains on eCommerce sites like Myntra, Nykaa, Amazon, etc., that are only available for a limited period like “70% OFF. Today ONLY!”. The impulse to push that button is immense. The existence of the sale is scarce, and people are motivated to act with a sense of urgency. Core Drive 7: Unpredictability and Curiosity We, humans, are hard-wired to seek thrill in uncertainty. We’re driven by the chase. We have no foolproof way of predicting the future, yet we’re always thinking about what will happen next. Unpredictability entails constant engagement as one does not know what will happen next, and our brain’s reward center lights up when we encounter such sensations. Unpredictability is a powerful force in motivating people to keep pressing on until they have clarified the unknown. This explains our love for surprises and our desire to seek new experiences. The virtual scratch cards on Google Play are a great example as we mischievously scratch them, knowing quite well that there’s not going to be much in there. Example: Gpay Virtual cards TV/Web Series A good web series will add a cliffhanger at the end of every episode to create a sense of anticipation for the next, which appeals to the audience’s curiosity and desire to clarify the unknown. Core Drive 8: Loss and Avoidance Humans are risk-averse by nature, and this core drive is our natural aversion to losing things we have worked hard to obtain. Avoidance and loss motivate through the fear of losing something or having an undesirable event occur. We can go to any lengths to minimize potential loss or risks wherever and whenever possible. According to psychology, we are more likely to act based on avoiding loss rather than making gains. Hence the fear of losing 1000 Rs is greater than the opportunity to gain Rs.1000. There’s nothing as powerful as offering an incentive upfront and then threatening to take it away. For example : uses streaks to encourage users to build a daily habit of using their app by giving you more XP if you maintain a streak. Learners or app users have to achieve their daily goals to save and improve their streak. Duolingo Duolingo Gamification – Streaks Miss one day and the streak is reset to zero. More recently, this option was replaced with one free ‘Streak Repair’ per month for premium members and a ‘ ‘ item that can be bought in the in-app shop with Gems. The urge to protect the daily streak motivates the users to put a small amount of effort every day to preserve their streaks. Streak Freeze Another classic example of this is the Marketing campaigns that often target our Core Drive 8 with tactics like, “If you don’t sign up/purchase now, you’ll lose this chance forever.” Black Friday Black Friday is an excellent example of how limited opportunity can motivate people to act with an extreme sense of urgency. Every year in the United States, products are priced a lot cheaper on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and people flock to stores to avoid losing out on sweet deals. Final Thoughts Gamification, or as Yu-Kai Chou calls it, human-focused design, is not about badges or leaderboards. It’s about human core drives, the most profound concept in gamification. And the Octalysis Framework tries to understand these nucleus motivations and uses them to drive behaviors. The more we understand the psychology behind our core drives, the better we will become at designing gamified systems and developing consistently good user experiences. First published here.

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