Engineering under pressure is less about having perfect certainty and more about noticing when your first interpretation is not a fact.
I wrote about cognitive distortions for engineers: the patterns that show up in code review, incidents, AI work, planning, and career decisions.
A failed deploy can become “I broke everything.”
A review comment can become “they think I’m not good.”
A noisy job market can become “there is no future for engineers.”
The fix is not forced optimism. It is precision:
fact, interpretation, emotion, evidence, next action.
Read the article here:
https://tgmarinhopro.com/en/blog/cognitive-distortions-for-engineers
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