Empower the Team

It is becoming more and more clear to me that the next significant step in software development evolution will not be a new technology or a new tool,

but an approach that successfully incorporates our hardwired human nature in the way we develop.

In InfoQ Interview: Linda Rising on Collaboration, Bonobos and The Brain Linda Rising points out that scientists initially believed the conscious mind

is like the tip of an iceberg, while the subconscious is the remaining 90%.  However, later studies suggest that our subconscious is the whole iceberg,

while our conscious is actually just… a snowball on top of it.

If only we could learn how to drive this iceberg…