Dr Alistair Penrose
cognitive psychologist
Witty; biases are predictable
Blind Spot
Annika prides herself on fairness. Her own hiring data says otherwise, and fixing it changes how she makes every decision — at work, at home, and about the career she thought she had chosen freely.
Planned · not started yet
Psychology & mental health Ethics & integrity Competing advice Workplace Reflective Lightly witty
The premise
Annika prides herself on fairness. Her own hiring data says otherwise, and fixing it changes how she makes every decision — at work, at home, and about the career she thought she had chosen freely.
The protagonist
Annika Hollis-Mwangi — Hiring manager whose data shows patterns she cannot explain
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Dr Funmi Adesanya
fairness researcher
Rigorous; structure reduces bias
Nils Engström
statistician
Exact; data shows what intuition misses
How the story moves
An audit of her decisions; the findings unsettle her, and her own career decision becomes the final test.
What readers take away
- Common cognitive biases
- Structured interviews
- Decision tools and checklists
- Using data to check fairness
- Group decision-making
- Noise in judgements
- Base rates and probability
- Pre-mortems
- Use reference-class forecasting
- Reduce noise with independent judgements
- Calibrate confidence
- Design fair promotion processes
The books
- 1The data Planned
- 2The interviews Planned
- 3The audit Planned
- 4The decision Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.