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The Sociable’s editor in chief Tim Hinchliffe chats with Alejandro Vasquez, VP of Business Development at PSL about agile best practices.
Vasquez develops and executes business strategy to further penetrate the US market in IT offshoring / nearshoring services from Colombia.
With over 600 engineers, PSL is currently Colombia’s leader in IT Services exports to the US and Canada (custom software development, testing services, devops, software maintenance, team augmentation).
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Tim Hinchliffe
The Sociable editor Tim Hinchliffe covers tech and society, with perspectives on public and private policies proposed by governments, unelected globalists, think tanks, big tech companies, defense departments, and intelligence agencies. Previously, Tim was a reporter for the Ghanaian Chronicle in West Africa and an editor at Colombia Reports in South America. [email protected]
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Brains Byte Back interviews startups, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders that tap into how our brains work. We explore how knowledge & technology intersect to build a better, more sustainable future for humanity. If you’re interested in ideas that push the needle, and future-proofing yourself for the new information age, join us every Friday. Brains Byte Back guests include founders, CEOs, and other influential individuals making a big difference in society, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies.
The ostrich effect explains why some of the smartest founders ignore bad news until it's too late. In this episode of Brains Byte Back, host Erick Espinosa sits down with Dr. Atif Ansar, an Oxford researcher and co-founder of Foresight, to break down the psychological bias that makes teams bury uncomfortable information and keep dashboards green long after a project has drifted off course.
Dr. Ansar has spent years studying thousands of the world's largest projects, from dams and railways to today's AI data center boom. He explains why optimism bias hits founders and entrepreneurs harder than anyone, why a project gets more dangerous the closer it looks to ”done,” and how a little self-deception quietly turns small delays into major failures.
You'll learn:
What the ostrich effect is and the behavioral science behind it (Kahneman, Tversky, and Thinking, Fast and Slow)
Why organizations can be even more irrational than the individuals inside them
How to establish an honest baseline with emotional neutrality, without guilt or blame
Why you should question the ”green” metrics and support the ”red” ones
The final 10% problem, and why heroic delivery fails
Whether you're running a company, a startup, or a side project, this conversation is a practical guide to beating the optimism bias that sabotages your goals and to learning how to look at your numbers before they look at you.
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