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In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Linda Rising about Daniel Kahneman\u2019s work on Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow, overcoming bias in the employment process and resisting social pressure in decision making. \n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\n\u2022\tDaniel Kahneman\u2019s book Thinking Fast Thinking Slow based on the research he did with Amos Tversky into how the human brain works, for which Kahneman win the 2011 Nobel Prize for Economics, is hard to read. Linda wants to make the ideas more accessible \n\u2022\tOne part is known as System One \u2013 the part that reacts quickly, never sleeps, where our cognitive biases reside and is the home of our expertise \n\u2022\tThe second part known as System Two is the conscious mind, somewhat associated with the prefrontal cortex, it is the part that sleeps and wakes and where considered decision making happens\n\u2022\tIn the hiring process, and other important decisions, it is vital to involve more than one person because awareness of the possibility of bias enables you to question each other\u2019s decision-making process and invoke System Two to examine decisions more objectively \n\u2022\tSocial pressure results in biases being reinforced, but a single dissenting voice can and des change the direction of bad decision making\n\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2NgG8Fm\n\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\n\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\nCheck the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2NgG8Fm