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Hidden motives
2018.07.29 13:46:22 CEST
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I started preparing my keynote speech at Gophercon and I will be
speaking about hidden motives, rationalizations and the decision-
making process working with technology. Most, if not all, the
people I work with personally try to be as data-driven as possible
about their decisions, but do they really?
I've been reading a lot about the distinction between real hidden
motivations and the rationalizations we tell ourselves.
Unfortunately it seems there is a real gap there: we do something
and then our brains reverse-engineer the decision, convincing
ourselves that's the reason we did that one thing to begin with.
It's mind-bending (I should say mind breaking), but learning about
this helped myself a lot and I want to share it with others.