We all make mistakes. Let’s talk about understanding our mistakes, failing fast, owning up and moving forward, keeping customers happy and the business flowing.
The cognitive framework of making mistakes and what part cognitive biases play in that. How our brain prevents us from correcting our set ways and methods and strategies to overcome that. The structuring of memory and the working of the neural pathways. We also share a real life lesson from a meeting with Her Imperial Highness, Princess of Japan.
When we do programming or other work we use our past learning to create beautiful digital experiences. But what if the framework changes and our best practices or common functions are deprecated? Having typed drupal_set_message thousands of times I still have hard time remembering if it is now Messenger or Messaging and if I should setMessage or addMessage - and that’s my neural pathways doing the dirty on me.
In this session we take a look at how our brain works in either helping or hindering our work. Through examples we learn about the workings of our neural pathways and the role they play in learning and especially relearning things when our context changes.
We study the different kinds of cognitive biases that make our life harder when for example hunting bugs or learning new tools. And being aware how our brain tries to trick us, we learn about ways to mitigate that.
About the speaker
Simo holds a degree in Computer Science, has worked as a web developer since the 1990s and as a Drupal developer since 2007, contributes to usability and accessibility in Drupal core development, is a black belt in three Japanese martial arts, and shares life with three dogs, four cats, and a couple of humans.
Find Simo on Drupal.org: https://www.drupal.org/u/simohell