Motivation Glossary
Browse 5 motivation terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
5 Motivation Terms
- Enthusiasm
- Visible energy, interest, and eagerness toward work, ideas, or collaboration. In team culture enthusiasm can be contagious and helpful, but it is most useful...
- Hate-Driven Development
- A joking phrase for writing tools, scripts, or refactors because a workflow, dependency, or codebase has become so frustrating that irritation itself becomes...
- Passion Project
- A personally motivated project pursued for interest, learning, or meaning rather than direct business need.
- Scratch Your Own Itch
- To build or improve something because you personally need it, rather than because it was assigned externally. In engineering slang, the phrase often describes...
- Stretch Goal
- An ambitious target set beyond the expected plan to motivate effort or capture upside if execution goes unusually well. Stretch goals can inspire teams, but...
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