Rewarding Contribution

Today's question: How do you reward someone for the contributions they make?

From the big questions straight into the weeds! This has been a favourite question in the last few years of figuring out how to rightly reward folks for contributing, but also how to motivate them to contribute in the first place. Are shout-outs enough? Do we need to tie rewards to the wider company rewards? Should motivation to contribute be intrinsic or extrinsic? Should we be encouraging contributions at all?

Resources:
Amy Hupe - You design system contribution model is doomed to fail
Ethan Marcotte - You deserve a tech union
Mike Monteiro - Ruined by design