{"id":11706,"date":"2016-03-07T19:03:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T17:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/?p=11706"},"modified":"2016-12-28T18:38:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:38:30","slug":"instant-communication-fast-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/instant-communication-fast-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Communication, Fast and Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"

We started thinking about Hubgets many years ago. We didn’t want to build yet another instant communication platform, but solve a problem that emerged five years ago and which, today, seems to have become much worse. Funny enough, last week I read?this article<\/a>?on Medium,?so I decided to write this post and tell our story.<\/p>\n

In your personal environment it’s OK to use any instant communication app you want. It may not be good for your mental health to be under constant siege by the multitude of apps that compete for your attention, but, in the end, everyone is free to decide for himself. The uninstall button is there?:) Professional life, however, is full of contradictions. Your demanding colleagues and bosses will want your full attention – sometimes 24\/7 – ?while they expect you to be highly productive and take the best decisions. Is this even theoretically?possible?<\/em><\/p>\n

You may have heard of Daniel Kahneman<\/a>, a renowned psychologist who won the Nobel prize in 2002 in economic science. He has taught us something extremely interesting.<\/p>\n

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Humans are mostly irrational<\/h3>\n

What? A?psychologist?who is a Nobel laureate in Economy??This is highly atypical, but it has a very good explanation. Kahneman focused his long career on human irrationality. Together with?Amos Tversky, another distinguished cognitive and mathematical psychologist, he discovered that human judgement tends to be greatly influenced by a multitude of factors which are logically unrelated to the subject of judgement.<\/p>\n

This behavior affects everyone, even people who are regarded as highly objective – judges, for instance. They further demonstrated that people making decisions in certain conditions are not acting to?maximize utility<\/em>, so they are actually not following the basic law our economy is based on. With this in mind, they developed an alternative theory for decision-making that takes into account the human philosophy called?prospect theory<\/strong>. This is what got Kahneman the Nobel prize – a?prize he would have shared with?Tversky, had he not died in 1996.<\/p>\n

Do you remember Spock?<\/h3>\n

If you’ve ever watched Star Trek, this won’t sound surprising. Do you remember the Vulcanian Spock? His process of decision-making was totally different to that of humans, and many times during the movie he exposed the weaknesses of the human resolutions.<\/p>\n

What is the connection between instant communication and decision making??Kahneman?wrote a very interesting book called?Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/em>, which I highly recommend. In this book, you will discover many things about yourself and the surrounding world that will help you a lot in the future.?Kahneman points to the “systematic errors in the thinking of normal people<\/em>” and describes the mechanisms behind them – “system 1 and system 2<\/em>.”<\/p>\n