Gamification, life, and the pursuit of a gold badge (2021)
I think this article is written a bit like that cash register anecdote. There is no conclusion other than examples why you are this way.<p>Why do you think you are like this? Not everyone is - I’m not.<p>But I’m currently working on a rewards gamification system in a surgical-medical training device and we’re discovering in user-testing that while yes, medical students do fixate on optimizing their scores, the system doesn’t  necessarily incentivize the sort of development we would like to see. Kind of like the cash register anecdote - some people get stuck. And then there are also people who are turned off by this perspective of having to perform like this.<p>I think it has to do with a certain set of rules that some people are exposed to, but not others. For me gamification turns some things into a slog.