Twin Cities Software Symposium
October 20 - 21, 2017
Hacking Your Brain with Metaphors
Saturday - Oct 21 1:00 PM CDT - WASHINGTON
Metaphors are the foundation of understanding – a conceptual lens that highlights some details, and hides others. Whether you're trying to understand an idea, design an architecture, or communicate an idea to a member of your team, metaphors shape the fabric of our thoughts.
The side-effect of understanding the world one way, is it becomes extremely difficult to see the world another way. Blindspots are the areas of understanding that fall outside of our metaphorical lenses, the invisible world that doesn't “make sense”.
In this session, we'll do a deep dive into the nature of metaphors and blindspots, and you'll learn three new brain hacks that can help you shift between metaphorical paradigms on command. We'll also discuss some of the blindspots in our industry caused by the Technical Debt metaphor, and how you can force a paradigm shift in your organization to Flow-oriented systems thinking.
Learn to see the world with a whole new perspective by hacking your brain with metaphors!
Arty Starr
Author of Idea Flow, Founder, FlowInsight
About Arty Starr
Arty Starr is a recognized Flow Experience expert, researcher, speaker and thought leader, and author of Idea Flow, how to measure the friction in software development. Arty's PhD research is developing a theory of momentum in software development, and she is creator of the FLOWS platform designed to help developers thrive and find joy through more time in the flow state. The company she founded, FlowInsight, is on a mission to bring back joy to our everyday work.
Arty is also a 2D/3D animator and artist, and has spent the last couple years building 3D apps in AR. She loves to share about her experiences with these technologies.