Non sacrificial volunteering
Categorizing volunteering intent into two categories: sacrificial and non sacrificial. Sacrificial is when we agree to volunteer against our best incentives, and out of a feeling of duty or sacrifice for the good of others. We'd rather be doing something else in other words, but our guilt or sense of obligation drives us to volunteer.
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You are reading a 10 page summary of a 100 page analysis of 10,000 answers to a UK volunteer survey. These notes are focused specifically on younger volunteers.
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Code refactors are a tricky thing. It's easy when wearing an engineer hat to focus too much on the correctness of the code. Incorrect code feels like having a dirty house and refactoring is a way to make it feel clean again. We've got to be particularly careful that we don't refactor with a 'grass is greener on the other side' bias, as then all the work will have been for almost nothing. Does that new way of doing things really solve a problem you're frequently running into that significantly slowing you down?
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