Skip the Sugarcoating

July 15, 2025 Skip the Sugarcoating If your company is offering unappealing food, you ll be tempted to add artificial sweetener. And if your schools are offering unengaging lessons (which students had no role in creating), you ll be tempted to use some kind of gimmick to make them seem less dreary. This episode considers how, long before gamification, John Dewey hit on the metaphor of sugarcoating…