Leveraging Our "Brains" in Software Development • Fahran Wallace, Benjamin Mitchell & Preben Thorø

This interview was recorded at GOTO Berlin 2019 for GOTO Unscripted. https://gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/software-development-brains Fahran Wallace - Senior Consultant at OpenCredo Benjamin Mitchell - Director of Engineering at Kevel Preben Thorø - CTO of Trifork Switzerland DESCRIPTION Our brains empower us to run complicated software development programs, but can also be the thing that prevents us from achieving the best possible results due to several psychological biases. Fahran Wallace, senior consultant at OpenCredo, and Benjamin Mitchell, director of engineering at Kevel, discuss those psychological biases at work, how we can tackle them and how we can wire the brain to overcome them. RECOMMENDED BOOKS Fabio Pereira • Digital Nudge • https://amzn.to/3yhxJu9 Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow • https://amzn.to/2XmJEtf Thaler & Sunstein • Nudge • https://amzn.to/3CglrmX Dan Ariely • Predictably Irrational • https://amzn.to/3lyDBd7 Robert B Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded • https://amzn.to/3tL8GxB Cathy O'Neil • Weapons of Math Destruction • https://amzn.to/3EO8Bi7 Nir Eyal • Indistractable • https://amzn.to/3EE3Pn9 Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now • https://amzn.to/39yjS7r Linda Rising • Design Patterns in Communications Software • https://amzn.to/2XsxDCg Linda Rising • The Pattern Almanac 2000 • https://amzn.to/3kfgIfi Linda Rising • The Patterns Handbook • https://amzn.to/3lxDPAS Linda Rising • Fearless Change • https://amzn.to/3AfvyrK Linda Rising • More Fearless Change • https://amzn.to/2Z3bYBh https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1 Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com) Twitter (https://twitter.com/GOTOcon) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/goto_con) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto-) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences) CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.tech (https://gotopia.tech) SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL (https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1) - new videos posted daily!