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Dogs, Frat Boys, and Leadership

November 28, 2011

For anyone who knows me personally, it should come as no surprise that I spent a portion of my holiday weekend tucked in to the December/January ’12 issue of Garden and Gun magazine. This issue’s cover model is a very handsome black Labrador retriever named Deke, a hunting dog trained at the famous Wildrose Kennels [...]

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The Achievement Dilemma

May 19, 2010

In a 2010 TED talk, game designer Jane McGonigal remarks that “We are optimized as human beings to do hard, meaningful work.” I repeat: humans are optimized for hard, meaningful work. In fact, McGonigal points out that gamers are very likely committed so deeply to gaming because they experience a sense of “blissful productivity,” that [...]

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