What Adam Wiggins thinks about education

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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

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10 Feb 2026

Our readingPeople who lack intrinsic motivation to invest time upfront in a new tool often won't, even if it would save them time later

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Their wordsThe "homework problem" described above might be much worse in practice for end users who aren't motivated to invest in their email triage systems, even if it will save them time in the medium term.

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