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Notices by Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)

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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 02:07:38 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal
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    A realization that I had too late in life as an Indian — You're always solving a problem at a scale here, like that's the one universal constant here in every aspect of life, that you're almost always a part of trying to distinguish yourself from : Bheed (a large crowd)

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 02:07:38 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal
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    To make things manageable, we build depersonalized systems, rigid workflows, and one-size-fits-all tools.

    But what we gain in scalability, we often lose in dignity, flexibility

    This especially applies to teaching to the test, exam based education

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 02:07:38 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal

    Almost every problem in India is about scale — having way too many people — so we end up creating depersonalized processes, workflows, institutions, and tools with default setups that can handle a huge population.

    Traveling in India, especially outside the big cities, you notice how every solution to a problem that feels pretty standardized and a bit detached is really all about our scale

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 02:07:37 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal
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    The question is: how do you scale creative cognition, higher-order thinking, real invention across a bheed?

    What would a true Cognitive Commons for India look like—something a village, a town, a crowd could draw from—not just to sort themselves, but to transform how they know, think, and create?

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 02:07:37 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal
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    Solutions that feel cold or standardized aren't just bad design—they're coping mechanisms for scale

    Take our edu system. Teaching to the test, exam-based learning, IIT-IIM prestige monopolies—they’re not designed to nurture creativity. They're signaling & filtering systems, built to sort millions

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 02:07:37 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal
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    Everything, everywhere, is about distinguishing yourself from the bheed—the overwhelming crowd

    Almost every 'default' we have in India—whether in education, hiring, public services—feels rigid, impersonal & often frustrating at an individual level. But it exists because it has to work for a bheed

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 02:07:37 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal
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    Every sucky default for every problem space in every domain we have is because that solution despite being sucky at an individual level scales for a bheed.

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 02:07:36 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal
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    How does one scale creative cognition and higher order thinking across a bheed, what sort of cognitive commons can we make that a bheed can draw from that shifts our baseline ways of knowing, thinking

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 21:39:07 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal
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    “I’m not stupid. I just need more time to think.”

    But the world — schools, apps, deadlines, interfaces — punish slowness.

    Meetings move on before you speak.
    Notes vanish before they connect.

    Most digital tools are made for speed, for output. Not reflection. Not ambiguity. Not neurodivergent depth.

    Most people don’t lack ideas. They lack space to let them breathe. You’re not bad at thinking. You’re using tools that make reflection feel like a flaw.

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 21:39:07 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal
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    For doing this I want to explore what would it be like redesigning penpot for neurodivergent designers.

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 21:39:07 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal

    I want to design tools for the minds that traditional education forgot.

    The slow.
    The nonlinear.
    The reflective.

    I want to build systems that reward clarity over speed. That honor thoughtfulness, uncertainty, pause.

    Most UX gaslights us into rushing.
    I want to build tools that let us breathe.

    Because some of us were never meant to “move fast and break things”

    We were meant to notice, reflect, and build something that lasts

    https://mastodon.social/@impactology/114387104009486182

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      Raghav Agrawal (@impactology@mastodon.social)
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      One thing I've noticed in a lot of pedagogical research (and I understand why it is so) is that a lot of it is focused on folks operating within an existing established system, within an institution — a school, a college If we truly want to design education for excluded, we also need to focus on folks who slipped through institutional cracks. For those system spat out and labeled unworthy.
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 00:56:52 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal
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    • Adrianna Tan
    • Jonathan Yu

    @skinnylatte @jawnsy

    Helping people change their concrete circumstances due to unusual life decisions is out of syllabus work

    (Cntext : I'm entering corporate workforce at 30, I'll be a 30 year old fresher)

    https://mastodon.social/@impactology/114170251485873697

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      Raghav Agrawal (@impactology@mastodon.social)
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      At 30 I'm finally trying to start my career after decade of independent research post-drop out Continuing my BA, enrolling in a UX bootcamp. This is the only way I can move forward but given its something I should have done long ago anxiety of will I ever make it doesn't go away I'm trying to prepare myself for the grind, to be a 30 year old fresher, I just hope I can eventually get to work with good kind people.
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 00:46:21 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal
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    • Adrianna Tan
    • Jonathan Yu

    @skinnylatte @jawnsy

    I connected with a therapist two months ago when I was on the verge of giving up because of career decisions that makes me feel unemployable (feel less so today compared to at that time). Therapist's response to my narration was basically : sorry can't help you

    In conversation about a month ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 00:37:18 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal
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    • Adrianna Tan

    @skinnylatte licensed therapists are also no panacea though, especially for depression related to career related fuck ups and decisions they can be useless

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 23:59:10 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal

    Mental health apps should be connected with career counsellors and creative problem solvers — with entrepreneurs, with career transitioners people who took extreme risks in life, faced hopeless situations, survived and now thrive

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 02:43:49 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal

    Are there contexts where users actually prefer complexity over simplicity?

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 02:49:39 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal

    Folks on the TL (just confirming how common it is to know this in these circles)

    Do you understand proportional reasoning behind profit, margin, cost price, selling price calculations?

    Can you determine how to adjust prices for buying or selling during negotiating discounts without losing margins

    In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 03:30:20 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal

    Happy new year everyone!

    In conversation about 5 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 02:48:56 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal
    • Tim Chambers

    Hey Tim @tchambers a member of your instance is doing a targeted harassment for a post that mentioned twitter link to a video drawing parallels between zionism and nazism.

    At no point in the video there is mention of what the member of your instance claims "Holocaust revisionism"

    https://mastodon.social/@impactology/113221532940413580

    The video acknowledges Holocaust and after that draws parallels, citing quotes from the founders of the zionist movement and Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé

    In conversation about 8 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      Raghav Agrawal (@impactology@mastodon.social)
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      @louis@indieweb.social Huh? The person in the video was quoting these zionist leaders — Theodore Herzl, David Ben Gurion, Moshe Sharett, Yosef Weitz and Ehud Avriel Also the historian cited is Ilan Pappé, he is not some random guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Papp%C3%A9 Also the video at no point denies holocaust, it acknowledges it and further draws parallels with how current israeli government's ethnic cleansing of palestinians bears similarity to it.
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    Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 03:00:30 JST Raghav Agrawal Raghav Agrawal

    Every country should pass a labour law banning use of ATS

    https://x.com/immigrant_boy88/status/1839686091177439536?t=67nDBRMOjn8kqZeCqQ077g&s=19

    https://mastodon.social/@impactology/112661554290379561

    In conversation about 8 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Diamond Dealer | Trying to break in UX after decade-long indie research: HCI, IxD, Design Theory, Phil of Tech, Feminist Theory, STS, Media Theory, Pedagogy

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