Speaking at Brighton Ruby 2024
I gave a talk called: Making work (and life) less stressful by making better decisions.
Video and slides
I'll post them when they're up.
I also had the benefit of some great feedback and encouragement from Melinda Seckington, who I wholeheartedly recommend as a speaker coach: https://www.seckington.com.
References
Here's a list of references I used while writing my talk:
- The Biggest Bluff - Maria Kournikova
- Thinking in Bets & How to Decide - Annie Duke
- Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
- The Right Kind of Wrong - Amy Edmondson
- How to Make the World Add Up - Tim Hartford
And some other ideas that informed my thinking, but weren't mentioned in the final talk:
- Thinking in a foreign language at Wired and thinking in a foreign language at the Guardian
- Hillel Wayne writing on sleep at X/Twitter and writing on sleep at Increment
- Managing at the threshold - David Yee
- Habits of highly effective teams - Charity Majors
Image from Ever at Flickr