# Getting Philosophical - How to Keep Your Best Programmers (Highlights)

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**Authors**:: [[Getting Philosophical]]
**Full Title**:: How to Keep Your Best Programmers
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**Document Tags**:: #team-management
**URL**:: [daedtech.com](https://daedtech.com/how-to-keep-your-best-programmers/)
**Host**:: [[daedtech.com]]
**Highlighted**:: [[2020-07-26]]
**Created**:: [[2022-09-26]]
## Highlights
- desire for autonomy, mastery, or purpose
- check out [this video from RSA Animate](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc)
- the desire to control one’s own work, the desire to get better at things, and the desire to work toward some goal
- Work on the narratives with the developers and refine them over the course of time.