2014:meat_machines_-_psychology_and_programming
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Title: Meat Machines - Psychology and Programming
Proposer: Mike Long
Type: Presentation
Duration: 90 mins
Description:
Why does bad code happen to good people?
How does an industry full of introverts nonetheless succeed in a high-communication industry?
Why do we fall into the same logical traps over and over?
Why is everything so hard to change?
Nikola Tesla famously described the human body as 'a meat machine which responds to externa forces', but is that really all we are?
This session will look at what modern cognitive psychology has to tell us about navigating the modern software landscape.
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