Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social
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Former Diamond Dealer | Independently explored research in design, education, and cognitive science; now bringing those ideas to life via UX
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Badass : Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra
sobrief.com/books/badass
Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra at Mind the Product San Francisco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBtc...
"Instead of solely improving your product, concentrate on making your users better at using it"
sobrief.com/books/badass
Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra at Mind the Product San Francisco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBtc...
"Instead of solely improving your product, concentrate on making your users better at using it"
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Badass : Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra
sobrief.com/books/badass
Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra at Mind the Product San Francisco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBtc...
"Instead of solely improving your product, concentrate on making your users better at using it"
sobrief.com/books/badass
Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra at Mind the Product San Francisco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBtc...
"Instead of solely improving your product, concentrate on making your users better at using it"
Although I will say this, one time summative assessments have zero resemblance to knowledge and skill usage in real world use.
Think about this, if you get any error in your daily work do you just scrap all of it completely or just fix that particular thing and iterate?
Think about this, if you get any error in your daily work do you just scrap all of it completely or just fix that particular thing and iterate?
Got radicalized by teachers teaching to the test for memorization based exams. Got me researching about project based learning, open book assessments, open education
Got deradicalized again by realizing those exams are there for a reason : easiest to scale for millions
Got deradicalized again by realizing those exams are there for a reason : easiest to scale for millions
“what radicalized you” idk paying attention
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Although I will say this, one time summative assessments have zero resemblance to knowledge and skill usage in real world use.
Think about this, if you get any error in your daily work do you just scrap all of it completely or just fix that particular thing and iterate?
Think about this, if you get any error in your daily work do you just scrap all of it completely or just fix that particular thing and iterate?
If Vannevar Bush, J.C.R. Licklider, Douglas Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Alan Kay were to work at modern Series A startups as designers, what would their workflow have been like?
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If Vannevar Bush, J.C.R. Licklider, Douglas Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Alan Kay were to work at modern Series A startups as designers, what would their workflow have been like?
What kind of software business makes scaling unnecessary?
What kind of software output generates so much value density per user, per employee that the company doesn’t need to scale headcount, bureaucracy, or user base to sustain itself?
What kind of software output generates so much value density per user, per employee that the company doesn’t need to scale headcount, bureaucracy, or user base to sustain itself?
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
What kind of software business makes scaling unnecessary?
What kind of software output generates so much value density per user, per employee that the company doesn’t need to scale headcount, bureaucracy, or user base to sustain itself?
What kind of software output generates so much value density per user, per employee that the company doesn’t need to scale headcount, bureaucracy, or user base to sustain itself?
Got radicalized by teachers teaching to the test for memorization based exams. Got me researching about project based learning, open book assessments, open education
Got deradicalized again by realizing those exams are there for a reason : easiest to scale for millions
Got deradicalized again by realizing those exams are there for a reason : easiest to scale for millions
“what radicalized you” idk paying attention
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Got radicalized by teachers teaching to the test for memorization based exams. Got me researching about project based learning, open book assessments, open education
Got deradicalized again by realizing those exams are there for a reason : easiest to scale for millions
Got deradicalized again by realizing those exams are there for a reason : easiest to scale for millions
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I have previously worked in an architecture team and it was great. AND...
Software Design Is NOT Software Architecture (& That’s A Good Thing!) | @emilybache.com
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Software Design Is NOT Software Architecture (& That’s A Good Thing!)
YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering
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October 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I have previously worked in an architecture team and it was great. AND...
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AI-assisted coding is like the blind men and the elephant. Everyone's experiencing it from different vantage points.
Makes it genuinely hard to know whose experience is worth learning from.
Sketched a graph to illustrate & wrote about the patterns I'm seeing.
blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/26/y...
Makes it genuinely hard to know whose experience is worth learning from.
Sketched a graph to illustrate & wrote about the patterns I'm seeing.
blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/26/y...
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
AI-assisted coding is like the blind men and the elephant. Everyone's experiencing it from different vantage points.
Makes it genuinely hard to know whose experience is worth learning from.
Sketched a graph to illustrate & wrote about the patterns I'm seeing.
blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/26/y...
Makes it genuinely hard to know whose experience is worth learning from.
Sketched a graph to illustrate & wrote about the patterns I'm seeing.
blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/26/y...
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Attaching a code-generating firehose to our development process that was largely trained on short-form code examples means we need to really stay on top of the bigger picture as it emerges one test and one refactoring at a time.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/t...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/t...
The AI-Ready Software Developer #14 – Continuous Architecture
They say a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step, but we still need to look where we’re going. One complaint that’s often leveled at micro-iterative development practice…
codemanship.wordpress.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Attaching a code-generating firehose to our development process that was largely trained on short-form code examples means we need to really stay on top of the bigger picture as it emerges one test and one refactoring at a time.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/t...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/t...
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I wrote a blog post today "The Microskills Theory of Programming": coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/10/the-...
The Microskills Theory of Programming - Coding Is Like Cooking
How to Succeed with Technical Coaching Software Developers are constantly shifting between activities. It might all be ‘coding’ but when you look more closely there are hundreds of distinct activities...
coding-is-like-cooking.info
October 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I wrote a blog post today "The Microskills Theory of Programming": coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/10/the-...
I found the term for what I've been doing tacitly for years: conceptual blending. It's the practice of intentionally mixing disparate disciplines to discover novel intersections that don't exist in any single field.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept...
November 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I found the term for what I've been doing tacitly for years: conceptual blending. It's the practice of intentionally mixing disparate disciplines to discover novel intersections that don't exist in any single field.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept...
Transferable Skills Are Cool. But Do They Transfer? – Education Rickshaw educationrickshaw.com/2020/03/27/t...
October 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Transferable Skills Are Cool. But Do They Transfer? – Education Rickshaw educationrickshaw.com/2020/03/27/t...
A cognitive science research question
At what level of performance of a skill can we identify pattern of thinking that can be translated from one domain to another
A question of transferrability of a skill
At what level of performance of a skill can we identify pattern of thinking that can be translated from one domain to another
A question of transferrability of a skill
October 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A cognitive science research question
At what level of performance of a skill can we identify pattern of thinking that can be translated from one domain to another
A question of transferrability of a skill
At what level of performance of a skill can we identify pattern of thinking that can be translated from one domain to another
A question of transferrability of a skill
October 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
In your field, what’s the smallest valuable act you repeat that actually makes you better? If you had to turn that act into a daily exercise for others, what would it look like?
Purpose of an exercise or an assignment is to compress the maximum amount of retention of concepts principles in a single exercise such that there is a proper gestalt of understanding that a person can form, that when repeated it forms an automatic skill, that the mind retains
October 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
In your field, what’s the smallest valuable act you repeat that actually makes you better? If you had to turn that act into a daily exercise for others, what would it look like?
One thing I realized, difference between quality of an ivy professor's assignments vs online course instructors
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
One thing I realized, difference between quality of an ivy professor's assignments vs online course instructors
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'This report looks at who gets to be an artist in the UK today, and considers whether access to a career in this vital industry is equitable and accessible'.
Such a relief we've got the White Paper on post-16 skills and education deeply committed to rectifying this anomaly in England... 2/2
Such a relief we've got the White Paper on post-16 skills and education deeply committed to rectifying this anomaly in England... 2/2
Who gets to be an artist? | Artquest
This report looks at who gets to be an artist in the UK today, and considers whether access to a career in this vital industry is equitable and accessible Student working in the painting studio, 2022,...
artquest.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
'This report looks at who gets to be an artist in the UK today, and considers whether access to a career in this vital industry is equitable and accessible'.
Such a relief we've got the White Paper on post-16 skills and education deeply committed to rectifying this anomaly in England... 2/2
Such a relief we've got the White Paper on post-16 skills and education deeply committed to rectifying this anomaly in England... 2/2
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'Are you from a professional family, went to private school, have a postgraduate degree, and live in London with a load of cash in the bank?
If so, congrats – you’re three times more likely to become an artist than anyone else.' 1/2
If so, congrats – you’re three times more likely to become an artist than anyone else.' 1/2
Who gets to be an artist?
Are you from a professional family, went to private school, have a postgraduate degree, and live in London with a load of cash in the bank?
wonkhe.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
'Are you from a professional family, went to private school, have a postgraduate degree, and live in London with a load of cash in the bank?
If so, congrats – you’re three times more likely to become an artist than anyone else.' 1/2
If so, congrats – you’re three times more likely to become an artist than anyone else.' 1/2
What customer segments consistently reject products designed by elite-educated teams because the solutions miss their actual pain points?
October 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
What customer segments consistently reject products designed by elite-educated teams because the solutions miss their actual pain points?
KG-PLPPM: A Knowledge Graph-Based Personal Learning Path Planning Method Used in Online Learning
mdpi.com/2079-9292/14...
Using knowledge graphs, the method personalizes learning paths by mapping concept similarity, learner mastery, and planning optimal routes.
mdpi.com/2079-9292/14...
Using knowledge graphs, the method personalizes learning paths by mapping concept similarity, learner mastery, and planning optimal routes.
MOOCCube: A Large-scale Data Repository for NLP Applications in MOOCs
aclanthology.org/2020.acl-mai...
"A large-scale data repository of over 700 MOOC courses, 100k concepts, 8 million student behaviors with an external resource"
aclanthology.org/2020.acl-mai...
"A large-scale data repository of over 700 MOOC courses, 100k concepts, 8 million student behaviors with an external resource"
October 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
KG-PLPPM: A Knowledge Graph-Based Personal Learning Path Planning Method Used in Online Learning
mdpi.com/2079-9292/14...
Using knowledge graphs, the method personalizes learning paths by mapping concept similarity, learner mastery, and planning optimal routes.
mdpi.com/2079-9292/14...
Using knowledge graphs, the method personalizes learning paths by mapping concept similarity, learner mastery, and planning optimal routes.
MOOCCube: A Large-scale Data Repository for NLP Applications in MOOCs
aclanthology.org/2020.acl-mai...
"A large-scale data repository of over 700 MOOC courses, 100k concepts, 8 million student behaviors with an external resource"
aclanthology.org/2020.acl-mai...
"A large-scale data repository of over 700 MOOC courses, 100k concepts, 8 million student behaviors with an external resource"
October 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
MOOCCube: A Large-scale Data Repository for NLP Applications in MOOCs
aclanthology.org/2020.acl-mai...
"A large-scale data repository of over 700 MOOC courses, 100k concepts, 8 million student behaviors with an external resource"
aclanthology.org/2020.acl-mai...
"A large-scale data repository of over 700 MOOC courses, 100k concepts, 8 million student behaviors with an external resource"
Vadalog is a system for performing complex logic reasoning tasks over knowledge graphs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadalog
How could Vadalog's graph-based knowledge representation be adapted to model student learning pathways and competency networks?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadalog
How could Vadalog's graph-based knowledge representation be adapted to model student learning pathways and competency networks?
October 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Vadalog is a system for performing complex logic reasoning tasks over knowledge graphs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadalog
How could Vadalog's graph-based knowledge representation be adapted to model student learning pathways and competency networks?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadalog
How could Vadalog's graph-based knowledge representation be adapted to model student learning pathways and competency networks?
EDUKG: a Heterogeneous Sustainable K-12 Educational Knowledge Graph arxiv.org/pdf/2210.12228
github.com/THU-KEG/EDUKG
A systematic literature review of knowledge graph construction and application in education www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
github.com/THU-KEG/EDUKG
A systematic literature review of knowledge graph construction and application in education www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
EDUKG: a Heterogeneous Sustainable K-12 Educational Knowledge Graph arxiv.org/pdf/2210.12228
github.com/THU-KEG/EDUKG
A systematic literature review of knowledge graph construction and application in education www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
github.com/THU-KEG/EDUKG
A systematic literature review of knowledge graph construction and application in education www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I think the reason why the term taste in design is so nebulous and mysterious because unlike devs designers dont have an industry practice of documentation.
Almost every piece of software, any library, api, framework has docu for it, its an established practice to write docs.
Almost every piece of software, any library, api, framework has docu for it, its an established practice to write docs.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I think the reason why the term taste in design is so nebulous and mysterious because unlike devs designers dont have an industry practice of documentation.
Almost every piece of software, any library, api, framework has docu for it, its an established practice to write docs.
Almost every piece of software, any library, api, framework has docu for it, its an established practice to write docs.
Is there any lab that takes research in HCI and converts it into practical workflows, methods, techniques that UI designers, PMs in industry can use?
Think HCI research to chunkable PM routine pipeline
Think HCI research to chunkable PM routine pipeline
October 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Is there any lab that takes research in HCI and converts it into practical workflows, methods, techniques that UI designers, PMs in industry can use?
Think HCI research to chunkable PM routine pipeline
Think HCI research to chunkable PM routine pipeline
A Philosophy of Software Design by John K. Ousterhout
www.amazon.in/Philosophy-S...
"This book addresses topic of software design: how to decompose complex software systems into modules (such as classes and methods) that can be implemented relatively independently"
www.amazon.in/Philosophy-S...
"This book addresses topic of software design: how to decompose complex software systems into modules (such as classes and methods) that can be implemented relatively independently"
October 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
A Philosophy of Software Design by John K. Ousterhout
www.amazon.in/Philosophy-S...
"This book addresses topic of software design: how to decompose complex software systems into modules (such as classes and methods) that can be implemented relatively independently"
www.amazon.in/Philosophy-S...
"This book addresses topic of software design: how to decompose complex software systems into modules (such as classes and methods) that can be implemented relatively independently"