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Counterintuitive Series: Babies resisting sleep Counterintuitiveness makes life more interesting. It also briefly reveals gaps or lags in our understanding or mindsets. This particular one is a hypothesis and not an example (yet at least),…
image: source Counterintuitiveness – Unhurried conversations Counterintuitiveness makes life more interesting. It also briefly reveals gaps or lags in our understanding or mindsets. Some weeks ago, I chanced upon a virtual session titled "Unhurried Conversations…
Counterintuitiveness makes life more interesting. It also briefly reveals gaps or lags in our understanding or mindsets. A recent article, and probably many before that, states how pre-rinsing dishes before putting them in the dishwasher…
Pic: source In light of the current Russian war on Ukraine, and similar tensions and wars over the past decades that have left thousands dead, millions homeless and helpless.. here's stating some obvious thoughts that…
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…
Two days ago, I was reminded of a Medium post I had read in the early days of the pandemic. One of the interesting things about it, was that the author attempted to understand and…
What was missing before and during the 2007-08 global financial meltdown, and during the Covid-19 pandemic? Or during the Spanish Flu? Or in Nazi Germany? Something that perhaps could have prevented the resulting tragedies? …
Bitcoin, Bit(e)coin I'll start by saying that I clearly don't know much about cryptocurrency. I'll also add that it would be incredibly beneficial to have a global currency that works securely without the need…
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…
Random musings. Every once in a while, mom would pester me to explore opportunities abroad. Canada in particular for some reason. And between my love for an imaginary idea called 'India', familiarity and…
Classic economics started off factoring psychology and behavioural trends and shortcomings (biases) into economic understanding. However, through the ages, economic concepts and policies were built on the assumption that humans are rational beings. This was…
Cold Masks Late last year, the world (except probably Japan) would not have imagined that in a few months, they would not be able to see full faces in public. And yet, now most people…
Religious Fashion Was chatting with a friend about religion. I randomly correlated religion with fashion. Or people's dressing sense, if you will. People either have their own style, or in most cases, they…
Pic: source Shared Tables This amusing but perhaps effective picture I saw in this tweet last month got some thoughts rolling. We could all use some personal space in public. Especially in countries like India.…