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Ep 2: Your Brain Is Lying to You feat. Kate Astrid
It took Kate Astrid eight months to ask what "entity" meant at her job. Not because she didn't know how to ask. Because she was afraid of being misunderstood and considered stupid for not already knowing.
Kate is a Senior Product Engineer at Cogram, and she's spent time studying cognitive bias, the mental shortcuts our brains use to feel confident instead of correct. In this episode, we get into how that shows up at work, in code review pushback, in meetings where everyone agrees a little too fast, in the terms nobody explains because everyone's afraid to be the one who asks.
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