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One of his more innovative educational initiatives is called Study and Progress. The program offers small cash stipends to mothers of fourth, fifth, and sixth graders who attend public schools in Sucre. In order to receive the stipend, the student must attend at least 85 percent of his or her classes. In the first month, roughly 75 percent of those eligible signed up for the program, but one-third did not receive the stipend because of their children’s absences. It was a better start than most expected, and the program’s mix of incentives quickly took hold. By the fourth month, the number of mothers not receiving stipends dropped to 12 percent. “In order to govern within an authoritarian system, you have to be a lot more creative,” Ocariz tells me. “Many opposition leaders haven’t realized that the problem isn’t Chávez. The problem is the problems of the people. If you efficiently address those problems, that is how you take support away from Chávez.”
The Dictator's Learning Curve
William J. Dobson
Embrace constraints “I don’t have enough time/money/people/experience.” Stop whining. Less is a good thing. Constraints are advantages in disguise. Limited resources force you to make do with what you’ve got. There’s no room for waste. And that forces you to be creative.
Rework
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Her curiosity piqued, Gallagher set out to better understand the role that attention—that is, what we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore—plays in defining the quality of our life. After five years of science reporting, she came away convinced that she was witness to a “grand unified theory” of the mind: Like fingers pointing to the moon, other diverse disciplines from anthropology to education, behavioral economics to family counseling, similarly suggest that the skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.
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