> This bias isn't necessarily intentional: human nature (competitive evolution) just naturally pushes us to interpret the world in a way that makes ourselves as

> This bias isn't necessarily intentional: human nature (competitive evolution) just naturally pushes us to interpret the world in a way that makes ourselves as valuable as possible. For the surgeon example, the simpler explanation is that, given a particular ailment, they just know only the surgical treatment, not the alternative drug-based therapy. Or if they know, they know it way back in their head and don't think of it unless explicitly prompted, whereas the surgical procedure is probably recent experience. I could also see this apply to IT. Given some problem, maybe there would be a simpler solution if I implemented this particular problem in, say, Python, but I'll implement it in Go because I work with Go a lot and all its idioms are much more salient in my mind.