Lose some…Win 'em all.!
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…
Image: source The Replication Crisis is an ongoing crisis where it has been difficult or impossible to reproduce findings of scientific studies. The field of behavioural science too, has had its challenges with replicating past…
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…
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…
Nosocomial infections are infections that patients contract inside of a hospital, due to contamination or germs present there. A patient undergoing treatment at a hospital is almost always has a weak immune system, which is…
In 2019, the US FAA approved the company Molon Labe Seating's (MLS) landmark seat design for commercial airplanes. What MLS did, is take the problem of discomfort of middle-seat passengers, and attempted to solve…
Image: source It helps to have a positive mindset, especially in a crisis or trying time, since those with a negative mindset crumble quickly. But even optimism and some values have their limits, especially…
Last week, I was speaking with a post-grad design student who had just finished her Masters, and was trying to figure out her career options. She mentioned that most job opportunities on campus involved UI/UX…
Do you use hyperboles often? I do. Mostly with close friends and family, but when necessary, with clients or my students. Helps convey the meaning or gravity of an idea or situation. Like when Gordon…
Image: source We humans have always dealt awkwardly with time. Some look for new ways to kill it. Others, better ways to fill it. And the lockdown has really done a number on how we…
India - More highways or Better National & Public Transport? This is an email I had sent to our Minister for Road Transport & Highways in January this year. Of course I am still…
Not sure y'all heard, but Segway stopped production in 2020. Founded in 2001, those incredible-looking, futuristic two-wheeled, self-balancing personal transporters were priced at a prohibitive $5000-8000 a unit. Probably why, despite their universal popularity and…
How much attention do you pay to detail? I had read about this somewhere and found the attention to detail unimaginably inspiring. The sculpture of Moses by Italian Renaissance artist, Michelangelo Buonarroti has a slight…
Many of us are familiar with the paradox of choice, whether or not we have heard of the phrase itself. The paradox of choice, is our tendency to believe that more options or variants or…
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…