Your Brain on Software Development • Fahran Wallace • GOTO 2018

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2018. #gotocon #gotocph http://gotocph.com Fahran Wallace - A wildly enthusiastic software engineer at OpenCredo @FahranWallace ABSTRACT The brain encounters more complexity than it can possibly deal with in life, and it's evolved a rich set of heuristics to deal with the problem. Those heuristics are fantastically tuned for staying fed, not getting eaten by bears etc., but are they well-suited for designing software? This talk is for software engineers and architects alike, who are curious about how they make decisions, and how they think. It's threaded together from stories, personal experiences and otherwise, of systems that ended up a very strange shape, or were killed altogether, not through bad coding, but through humans collectively optimising for the wrong thing. Learn about the biases that affect our programming choices; how we favour the first solution we think of (Anchoring effect), are suspicious of things that were “Not Invented Here”, and just how difficult it is to change your worldview (the Backfire effect). Your Brain on Software Development is a whimsical talk that explores the intersection of Programming, Architecture and Psychology [...] Read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2018/sessions/601 https://twitter.com/gotocph https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConference https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- http://gotocon.com #HumanFactor #productivity #psychology Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO Conference near you! Get your ticket at http://gotocon.com SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1