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Staff at Terraform Industries have fake $100 bills taped all around their workstations. Founder @cjhandmer explains how it's part of a unique bonus system he runs at the company, and its symbolic value: "So, I have this ability to kind of increase people's salaries on a biweekly basis — much the same way that Nucor, the American Steel Company, does — by agreeing to a series of milestones in advance." "If we hit them, which we do about a third of the time, the person who hits them gets to hand out the fake money to everyone. We write on it what it was for, and then the cash lands in your account." "But then the money, you stick up by your computer. And it reminds you that even though we're kind of in this interminable grind to try and make this technology work — and sometimes you have weeks and even months of really banging your head against the wall — you were able to succeed doing almost impossible things on impossible timelines and budgets. And you can do it again. And you will do it again. "And it's really important to internalize that 'you just have to keep on grinding away until you solve the problem mentality.'"
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