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What Might Automotive Lights Look Like in Future?

by Shrutin ShettyApril 4, 2022April 2, 2022

When it comes to automotive light designs, a few occasionally catch your eye. Like the sweeping indicator lights from some years ago. Those still are impressive. I think Audi SUVs were among the first to…

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Feature Suggestion for Todoist

by Shrutin ShettyJanuary 24, 2022September 7, 2022

In my last post, I recommended reading the book, To-do List Formula. I also shared my own key takeaways from the book. The book highly recommended the Todoist app to create and track tasks. I…

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What if the Comments Section on Social Media had a Search Feature?

by Shrutin ShettyJanuary 7, 2022

Image: source Say you create a post on social media, and friends or acquaintances comment on it over the next few days or weeks. Now, sometimes it gets tricky if the comments function is basic.…

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Reading and Writing Smarter

by Shrutin ShettyJanuary 5, 2022September 7, 2022

While looking up an old blogging account of mine, I stumbled upon a RattL 'em idea from many years ago. I had made a suggestion to Google, sometime in Feb., 2013 regarding composing of emails.…

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Sample Size of One: Towards a Possible Solution

by Shrutin ShettyDecember 8, 2021June 1, 2022

This post explores an alternative to fix the replication crisis (particularly in the behavioural science and economics fields, and if relevant, in other fields too). This post is in continuation to an earlier post titled…

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What if We could Mute Serial-Forwarders on WhatsApp Groups

by Shrutin ShettyOctober 13, 2021September 7, 2022

A recent ‘RattL ’em‘ idea was for Will Cathcart and Matthew Idema at WhatsApp. Through the lockdown, a lot of people began spending considerable time on WhatsApp. And some, let's call them 'serial forwarders', dump…

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Idea for a Review Mode for Note-taking and Planner Apps

by Shrutin ShettyOctober 13, 2021September 7, 2022

A recent 'RattL 'em' idea was for Note or Planner apps like Evernote, Google Keep and others. Such apps could include a 'Review Mode' for existing entries. In this mode, users could be given a…

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Constraints and the beautiful A-10

by Shrutin ShettyJune 29, 2021July 1, 2021

Contrary to popular belief: constraints help make better products (or services), and a good innovative product or service does not need to be expensive As a young kid, one thing I was good at, was…

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Towards a Better Mask – 3

by Shrutin ShettyNovember 20, 2020November 20, 2020

An internal project under Rattl has been to try create a better mask for the (Covid) times. While it is possible we fail to actually create an ideal one, the exercise so far has been…

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Towards a Better Mask – 2

by Shrutin ShettyNovember 11, 2020November 20, 2020

An internal project under Rattl has been to try create a better mask for the (Covid) times. While it is possible we fail to actually create an ideal one, the exercise so far has been…

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Towards a Better Mask – 1

by Shrutin ShettyNovember 7, 2020November 16, 2020

An internal project under Rattl has been to try create a better mask for the (Covid) times. While it is possible we fail to actually create an ideal one, the exercise so far has been…

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Managers & Leaders – For your Innovation & Business Growth Needs

by Shrutin ShettySeptember 1, 2020

If you are a manager who is:   1. struggling with business growth 2. stuck with trying to create the next great product or service   ...but don't want the hassles of appointing consultants to…

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Matchbox Design

by Shrutin ShettyJuly 8, 2020July 9, 2020

Matchbox design As a kid, I used to be quite fascinated by matchboxes. From the uncertainty of being shouted at by some elder, to how many tries it took to light it. And the best,…

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Suicide Watch

by Shrutin ShettyJune 23, 2020August 21, 2020

Suicide Watch Trigger Warning: This post contains thoughts on whether it is possible to identify people who might suddenly be at risk of self-harm or suicide. If this is not a topic of interest, or…

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Jane Elliott

by Shrutin ShettyJune 8, 2020June 8, 2020

Jane Elliott: image Heard of Jane Elliott?   She's an American schoolteacher and an anti-racism activist. She is especially famous for her truly visionary "Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes" exercise that she conducted in her classroom, 50…

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