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Ask HN: Good books and videos on understanding and designing Incentives?

Hello, I have searched quite a bit but I could not see any books and videos for understanding Incentives.Can you suggest books and videos for understanding and designing incentives? I am aware of famous video from Charlie Munger about Psychology of Human Misjudgement and looking for more resources like this.Please suggest.

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Ask HN: How to Deal with Disagreements?

I am wondering what resources are there to learn how to deal with disagreements. At work, I have too many people disagreeing with what I am saying. My team or org. in general argue endlessly without reaching the conclusion. I usually step in, sometimes to avoid disagreements, but people treat that as either authoritative or agree with grunts.Any suggestions and material to learn from?

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Ask HN: Should I quit software development?

Not sure if it’s just me or whole field seem to have gone radical changes in last 5 years. I started as an IC data engineer and always had an ambition for management. I was data engineer when I had started and later moved to software engineer specializing in analytics role. I never wrote web app or apis if that matters. I had enough of being IC and fake competition I had to bear in my role...

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