{"podcast":{"title":"Refactoring Podcast","slug":"refactoring-podcast-6754878","podcast_index_feed_id":6754878,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/ee484c90/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://refactoring.fm","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/39877156/39877156-1701361251890-4052e839c628f.jpg","author":"Luca Rossi","episode_count":68,"summary":"Weekly interviews with world-class engineering leaders about writing great software and working well with humans.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T16:17:08.822802+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/refactoring-podcast-6754878"},"episode":{"title":"Thinking in Bets for Engineers 🎲— with Annie Duke","slug":"thinking-in-bets-for-engineers-with-annie-duke","published_at":"2025-08-01T08:23:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/refactoring-podcast-6754878/thinking-in-bets-for-engineers-with-annie-duke","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/refactoring-podcast-6754878","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lucaronin/episodes/Thinking-in-Bets-for-Engineers--with-Annie-Duke-e36aio8","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/ee484c90/podcast/play/106301640/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-7-1%2F404937953-44100-2-dd446b9899f21.mp3","summary":"Today's guest is Annie Duke , who is a former world-class professional poker player and one of the world's top experts on decision-making.She's a bestseller author and coach of many tech founders and teams.With Annie we talked about her journey from studying decision science to becoming a top poker player and back to decision-making. We explored how to make good decisions under uncertainty, alone and in a team. And we particularly focused on quitting decisions, what maked for a good versus a bad quit and why we are so bad at recognizing those.00:01:31 Introduction00:03:45 From poker to decision-making00:08:30 Sponsor00:10:07 Poker and the definition of "resulting"00:16:42 Feedback loops and decision-making00:21:59 Successful but not hungry00:26:14 A good decision-making process00:35:24 Qualifying the market00:38:17 Team decision-making00:47:46 Quitting00:52:43 Make quitting easier01:08:43 Kill criteria—This episode is brought to you by Unblocked! Unblocked brings all the context about your codebase together, so your team gets expert-level answers, no matter where they’re working.Learn more at getunblocked.com!—You can also find this at:• 📬 Newsletter: https://refactoring.fm• 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Luds9dmzZDoDC8Q7EMbSw• 📱 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/refactoring-podcast/id1719137305—For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, or appearing as a guest, email: luca@refactoring.club","meta_description":"Today's guest is Annie Duke , who is a former world-class professional poker player and one of the world's top experts on decision-making.She's a bestsell…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4315,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/refactoring-podcast-6754878/episodes/thinking-in-bets-for-engineers-with-annie-duke/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/refactoring-podcast-6754878/thinking-in-bets-for-engineers-with-annie-duke.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}