Gamification

How to Use Gamification to Break Our Addiction to Our Phones

At a party I went to last month — comprised of 20- and 30-somethings — roughly 10% of the attendees could be found huddled over their phones at any given moment, completely withdrawn from the social scene.

Achieving Excellence Through Abstraction

For the past eight or nine months, I’ve been spending my weekends in a local coffee shop learning the ins and outs of coding. Object oriented programming, functional programming, unit testing, various frameworks, database management and more. Self teaching is…

Gamifying the Job Search @ GSummit 2013

Get Rejected. Get Rejected Again. Repeat

“A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.”

-Bo Bennett

Learning to handle rejection (and fail gracefully) is one of the most valuable skills for succeeding in almost every…

Jon’s 30 Minute Live Discussion on Goals and Gamification

How to Gamify Your New Year’s Resolutions (and Other Goals Too)

How to Gamify Your Life: An Experiment — Part 4

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
-Leonardo da Vinci

At the start of this gamification experiment, I had a detailed system of time-tracking, progress standardization, a full list of “activated abilities”, and…

How to Gamify Your Life: An Experiment — Part 3