{"id":735,"date":"2008-10-10T00:12:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T00:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2008-10-10T00:12:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T00:12:16","slug":"sins-of-commissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2008\/10\/10\/sins-of-commissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sins of Commissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/inc.html?13\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 5px\" alt=\"Inc. Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/26Inc.png?w=730&#038;ssl=1\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&#8220;A couple of years ago, I went into a big-box shoe store and bought a pair of sneakers. At the checkout counter, the cashier grabbed a can of that bogus silicone spray stores always try to up-sell you. It&#8217;s supposed to make sneakers shiny and waterproof, but it doesn&#8217;t seem to do anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From my latest Inc. column:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/inc.html?13\">Sins of Commissions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biu.ac.il\/faculty\/spolsb\/\">dad<\/a> emailed to add:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The same problem arises when you set measurable incentives (money for better test results) in educational policies like No Child Left Behind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A couple of years ago, I went into a big-box shoe store and bought a pair of sneakers. At the checkout counter, the cashier grabbed a can&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2008\/10\/10\/sins-of-commissions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Sins of Commissions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83KNI-bR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}