[$] The dark side of expertise

Everyone has expertise in some things, which is normally seen as a goodthing to have. But Dr. Sean Brady gave some examples of ways that ourexpertise can lead us astray, and actually cause us to make worse decisions,in a keynote at the 2020 linux.conf.au. Brady is a forensicengineer who specializes in analyzing engineering failures to try to discover the root causes behind them. The talk gave real-world examples of expertise gone wrong, as well as looking at some of thepsychological research that demonstrates the problem. It was aninteresting view into the ways that our brains work-and fail to work-insituations where our expertise may be sending our thoughts down the wrong path.