85. What is BrainyTab? An Interview with the Founders Radu and Raluca Judele

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As students of behavioral economics know even when we are aware of our biases, they still exist. Our brains and subconscious act on autopilot and incorporate biases into our decision making process without us even realizing it. If that’s the case, how can we make our decisions more rational? Improving our awareness of these biases can help us at least understand how we are being influenced. From there, we can determine opportunities to step back and take a second look at the information at hand. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Behavioral economics is a broad subject with a lot of variations of biases and principles. Fortunately, BrainyTab is a tool to help learn about and reinforce some of those biases. I’m excited to have Radu and Raluca Judele on the show today to discuss BrainyTab. Radu and Raluca wanted to create a tool to shine a light on those cognitive biases. They started researching and came up with a browser extension called MyCognitiveBias which has now evolved into BrainyTab.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I couldn’t resist learning more about a tool set up to share behavioral economics with the world. That’s why Radu and Raluca are here today to introduce the extension to you and talk about why they came up with it, how it has helped them, and why it can help you. It’s free for everyone, and you can</span> <a href="https://brainytab.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">download it from their website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The tabs introduce about 530 concepts, and they are constantly adding new material including relatable, real-life examples. They also have a fun contest where users can get a chance to win $100 worth of books from Amazon. </span></p> <p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[03:32] Radu was nervous to reach out to The Brainy Business (I’m so glad he did!) He and Raluca wanted to work on a project together. BrainyTab is phase 2. Phase 1 was an extension called M