Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

This animated sequence is a talk by Dan Pink (Wikipedia Google Twitter) discussing human drives and motivations at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (Wikipedia RSA Website). It’s a great all around introduction to some newly minted economic research from the top tier of the profession (MIT, U of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon — sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank), and should be interesting for anyone, not just business folks. I’ll let Dan explain:

It’s All About Scalability

One thing we know about here at XZ Backup, and that is scaling. You need ways of managing your infrastructure so you can optimize your work accordingly. Bottlenecks must be addressed, code breaks, hardware dies, new storage is brought online; when building to support SMB and Enterprise customers, you need to work on a global time-frame, which means 24/7/365.

In the process of building systems, you always have a set of options and technologies available to you, and the question is what mix of these solutions will help bring your product or service to the next level.

Here’s a video with Steve Huffman, founder of reddit, at Future of Web Apps Miami 2010, giving insights into lessons learned.

Lessons Learned while at Reddit from Carsonified on Vimeo.