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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What kind of product design roles one should be targeting for if they are okayish/decent in visual craft but better at interaction, systems, problem framing

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What is something you recently built or studied, and what did it teach you about how people work?

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Learning and Everyday Life by Jean Lave www.amazon.in/Learning-Eve... "This book weaves together ethnographic accounts of work and learning, apprenticeship and everyday life" "Lave addresses work practices and everyday life and discusses the problem of context and decontextualization"

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Semble @semble.so · 29/07/2026

We redesigned the Semble landing page! 🎉 Now with clearer info about what Semble actually does, and a FAQ if you still have questions :) 🏗️ Also a builders section with inspo from our awesome community projects & everything you need to start hacking on the API What will you save to Semble today?

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John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

You are looking for the field of Cognitive Systems Engineering www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/what-is-cogn...

adaptivecapacitylabs.com

What is Cognitive Systems Engineering?

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel, we see two stick figures. Text above them labels one as "book smart" and one as "street smart".
In the second panel we zoom out and see the two stick figures in nature next to a tree. There is a sign pointing out of the panel that says "LIFE".
In the third panel we see the street smart stick figure take the hand of the book smart stick figure. The street smart stick figure says "Come, I will guide you".
In the fourth panel we zoom out again and see the two stick figures walking in the direction of the "LIFE" sign. The book smart street figure looks back at the tree as they are walking and says, "I know a lot of facts about that tree".

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 02/09/2026

hello new followers, here is a talk i did last year for @theiaconf.bsky.social on making information architecture more essential by aligning with engineering, in turn by producing deliverables that they can consume directly instead of having to ETL all the time: youtu.be/8gRMk4-Gr1E

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Information Architecture Conference 2025: Organizational Cartography and You

YouTube video by dorian taylor

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Started an offline 4.5 month UX bootcamp in mumbai User research next week! uxui.designboatschool.in/mumbai/ Meanwhile practicing my UI and figma chops using shiftnudge

A group of 11 individuals posing together in a design studio space with white walls and overhead lighting. They're standing in a semi-circle formation, smiling at the camera.

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What would it take to create a job platform that vets companies instead of candidates Specifically vetting for non-toxicity, integrating reviews from glassdoor and blind? How would you even begin to create or source data for it

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I feel graphic design oriented UI folks who have been able to internalize few visual styles and tool proficiency hate ux process theater because it does actually take more effort to learn their craft and it is part of what goes into the assets for the making of the interface…

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Is there a Business intelligence software for aam aadmi (small business owner who does not MBA-speak) Think for people who do business without the jargon of corporate mba management consulting speak

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Caidan @caidan.dev · 22/04/2026

I'm opening the Terminal Graph beta to the public, and with it I bring a new docs site! Have fun, and go break things! terminalgraph.com

terminalgraph.com

Terminal Graph — A spatial development environment for macOS

Your entire workflow, one infinite canvas. Terminals, browsers, editors, and notes with dataflow connections. Sign up for the beta.

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Job hunting is a skill that seems harder than the skills required for doing the job itself

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My father has been dealing with Osteoarthritis pain in his knee for a while, after months of consultations and tests the conclusion was total knee replacement which could be delayed for a year with conservative treatments.

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I have a theory. Brand design, Capital D graphic design work or any kind of design work that requires a lot of very fine talent for visual art where the output is consumed for seconds via landing page assets or packaging is really for the rich by the rich.

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B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) @b-cavello.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I HATE when I copy a link to something (like a #Slack join link) & they insert a bunch of junk in there! “Join me on Slack -- it’s a faster, simpler way to work. Sign up here, from any device: <link>“ 🤡 Not only is it obnoxious & unnecessary, but if you’re trying to hyperlink it breaks everything

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

For translating a user need/concern/frustration/breakdown/research insight into a design concept ask What would the person need to become able to do here? and then What must the computer be able to do so the person gains this ability?"

Two-column framework showing steps 1 and 2 of a human-centered software design process.

Left column (Step 1): 'Observe the context' - Instructs to start with recurring situations: home, neighbourhood, work, education, small business, healthcare, public services, research. Also instructs to capture interruptions, workarounds, repeated decisions, information loss, uncertainty and consequences. Note at bottom: 'The first output is a Situation Record.'

Right column (Step 2): 'Frame the activity' - Instructs to convert observations into actors, goals, objects, actions, sequences, decisions, dependencies, breakdowns, exceptions and consequences. States that user research becomes an operational model, not a report. Note at bottom: 'Construct only as much context as the task requires.

Two-column framework showing steps 3 and 4 of a human-centered software design process.

Left column (Step 3): 'Translate into abilities' - Instructs to ask for every breakdown: 'What would the person need to become able to do here?' Lists human abilities: Remember what happened, Compare alternatives, Detect exceptions, Coordinate, Verify, Return to unfinished work, Reverse a mistake. Note at bottom: 'These become Human Ability Statements.'

Right column (Step 4): 'Derive the software capability' - Instructs to ask: 'What must the computer be able to do so the person gains this ability?' Lists software capabilities: Persist state, Reconstruct history, Classify events, Extract intent, Normalize data, Request confirmation, Preserve reversible history. Note at bottom: 'Only now do APIs and libraries enter.'

The framework emphasizes translating human needs into abilities first, then deriving technical requirements, before considering implementation tools.

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

There is a big gap in the procedural skills between user research and interface conceptualization The middle layer translating a human need to the right software capability and interface primitives

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Organizing content in a way where all the loose threads are tied up well feels like more than half the job of designing Its not easy to figure out a spine, a structure that synthesizes all the different parts of what you want your site or app to say or do

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The first ever practice of design craft should be, start by wireflowing the apps that you use What are those for y'all?

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

All tech jobs should be like this razorpay.com/ai-builders/ "No resume theatre. Just show us what you've built.' Three steps. 1. Fill the form, 2. Submit your project or GitHub, 3. If it has signal, we'll call in 48 hrs" x.com/harshilmathu...

Tweet from Harshil Mathur (@harshilmathur) announcing an always-on opening at Razorpay for AI builders. The tweet praises the design team's career page at razorpay.com/ai-builders/ and includes a video thumbnail showing the page's dark interface with text about building the future together and values like '/UNLIMITED TOKENS' '/ANY MODEL' '/AI TOOL' '/NO HIERARCHY' '/SHIP FAST'

Razorpay AI builders career page hero section with dark background showing an iMac computer with code on screen. Headline reads: 'No resume theatre. Just show us what you've built.' Below: 'Three steps. No nonsense.' followed by: 1/ Fill the form, 2/ Submit your project or GitHub, 3/ If it has signal, we'll call in 48 hrs. Blue 'Apply Now' button visible.

Razorpay AI builders page section with dark code-patterned background. Heading: 'Unleash Your Inner Builder.' Text explains: 'We aren't looking for standard resumes, we want your best AI build that solves a real, tough problem. Show us how you prioritize features to build something original. Use any tech stack you want, just make sure it's fresh work built for this challenge that prioritizes core logic over surface polish.' White 'Start' button below.

Razorpay AI builders application form step with dark background. Heading with sparkle emoji: 'Show us the magic.' Instructions: 'Paste a live link or working demo. Deployed somewhere we can click and try. (Vercel, Replit, HuggingFace Spaces, your own domain, whatever)' Additional text: 'If it can't be deployed, drop a link to a 2-minute screen recording of it working instead.' URL input field showing 'https://' placeholder and 'Next' button below.

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ever wonder if past theorists, practitioners would have come up with their work you admire with today's conditions, resources? Like would Douglas Engelbart immersed in present ui discourse have come up his augmenting the human intellect paper or something similar today? & how?

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@fasterandworse.com Steve how many hours it takes for you to make your videos on your channel and essays for your blog? Like how many hours you dedicate to each from start to finish

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

interfacelineage.com "Interface Lineage takes the invisible mechanisms in your interfaces apart for the people who make them. You leave able to name each move, feel how it works, and say why it matters" A library of interaction mechanisms and how they came about

Checkmark list showing what's included in Interface Lineage: hundreds of interfaces analyzed to the mechanism level, principles they prove or break, reusable patterns with origins, maker context, interactive demos, optional quiz cards and reveals, and a critical analytical approach throughout.

Six Thumbnail Cards:
1. Press-and-Release Menus
iPhone screen showing a press-and-hold context menu appearing over a list of contacts, demonstrating long-press interaction pattern

2. Infinite Scroll Timeline
Phone interface showing an infinite scroll timeline with stacked cards or messages, demonstrating continuous vertical scrolling behavior

3. Expand and Collapse
Stacked layered cards or panels in an accordion-style interface, showing expand and collapse mechanism with visible depth and layering

4. Cursor Affinity in Rich Text Editors
Text editor interface showing formatting options (Bold, Italic, Code, Highlight) with cursor positioned at the boundary between formatted and plain text, demonstrating cursor affinity behavior

5. Clear App's Gesture-Only List
Hand holding iPhone performing a swipe gesture on an orange-colored interface, demonstrating gesture-based list item deletion or clearing interaction

6. Sketch to Search
Ceramic bowl or vessel photographed on white surface, representing sketch-to-search functionality where visual input finds similar items

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

@fasterandworse.com Hey Steve how are you? What are you upto these days? Are you more active on bsky or on masto?

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

From Junior to Senior: Allocating Agency and Navigating Professional Growth in Agentic AI-Mediated Software Engineering by Dana Feng, Bhada Yun, April Yi Wang arxiv.org/abs/2602.00496

Three tables displaying participant demographics across three study phases. Table 1 shows Phase 1 participants (S1-S5): 5 senior software engineers with 5-13 years experience from companies including Big Tech/Cloud & AI, FinTech, Design Tools, DevTools startup, and Enterprise SaaS, detailing their GenAI and Agentic AI tool usage and familiarity levels. Table 2 shows Phase 2 participants (J1-J10): 10 junior software engineers with less than 1 year to 1 year experience from various sectors including FinServ startup, FinTech, Enterprise SaaS, HealthTech, Big Tech, FinMedia, Investment, Payments, and Consulting, all using Software Engineer titles with varying GenAI and Agentic AI tool usage. Table 3 shows Phase 3 participants (S6-S10): 5 senior engineers with 8-26 years total experience (6-16 years senior level) from FinTech, Social/Consumer, Big Tech/Cloud & AI, and Insurance/Health sectors, in roles ranging from Lead to Staff to Senior Software Engineers, with their AI tool usage patterns.

Text excerpt discussing practical challenges in implementing Prompt Code Reviews (PCRs). The text explains that code review is time-intensive and reviewing full prompt histories could overwhelm reviewers. Two sections are highlighted in yellow: First highlight states 'Juniors could self-curate 2-3 key prompts that shaped their solution, while automation could filter out sensitive or exploratory content.' Second highlight states 'By making AI interactions part of the review process, teams can preserve the human judgment and ownership that both juniors and seniors identified as essential to meaningful work.' The text concludes by noting that seniors reviewing junior artifacts in brief 12-minute sessions identified patterns of over-reliance, suggested better prompting strategies, and caught instances where juniors accepted incorrect AI suggestions.

Two tables displaying prompt types and frequencies used during Phase 2. Table 4 shows Agent mode prompts: Debugging (24 instances, highest frequency) with sample prompt about app stalling on Loading Activity logs; Code explanation (8 instances); Command (4 instances); Command/Code explanation (2 instances); Command/Debugging (2 instances); Concept Explanation (2 instances); and Asking for ideas (1 instance). Table 5 shows Ask mode prompts: Code explanation (12 instances, highest frequency) with sample prompt 'What is the logs-container div doing?'; Debugging (10 instances); Concept Explanation (3 instances); Command (1 instance); and Verification (1 instance). The tables contrast Agent mode's debugging-focused usage with Ask mode's code explanation-focused usage patterns.

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha www.amazon.in/Rebels-Again... The little-known story of seven foreigners to India who joined the movement fighting for freedom from British colonial rule

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Folks on the TL who love software (not necessarily the corporate job workflows of resolving jira tickets), what do you love about the medium?

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Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 23/06/2026

And speaking of Blacksky ... the code doesn't write itself, the servers cost money, and so does moderation & trust and safety. So please support Blacksky! Here's their OpenCollective link. opencollective.com/blacksky

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Blacksky - Open Collective

Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Who are the people who TEACH the skill of creating explanations? Not theories about how the brain works. Not pedagogy philosophy. Not cognitive science lineage. Not how people learn but the actual explanatory skill of making good explanations.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 19/06/2026

Here’s a new, super-interactive essay I wrote about making interactions really great for repeated use, motor memory, and so on. I just… love this kind of stuff? I don’t know. My hope is that you’ll fall in love with this, too. *a big screen very, very recommended* aresluna.org/show-your-ha...

aresluna.org

Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you

On designing finger-friendly interactions

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Who is the one person to follow on AI who knows how open ai & anthropic's models work underneath deeply and help deconstruct the innovation they come up with without the hype

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

For some people starting a business is mostly a means to security, a risky one. For some its a way to escape indignity of the job market and corporate hierarchy.

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Pernosco Omniscient Debugger pernos.co/about/vision... pernos.co/about/basics/ "Pernosco can trace dataflow backwards in time, from where a variable has an incorrect value back to where that variable was set instantly"

pernos.co

The Pernosco vision

Many software developers spend a lot of time debugging. We believe debugging technology is in its infancy and improved debugging tools can significantly increase the productivity of even the best deve...

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

ClimateTriage - Impactful open source contributions climatetriage.com Launch your open source journey in climate and sustainability. Explore current Good First Issues from open source initiatives focused on protecting natural resources. @opensustaintech.bsky.social

ClimateTriage website interface showing a platform for finding open source climate and sustainability projects. Left sidebar displays 'Browse by Category' filters including Biosphere (43), Climate Change (41), Energy Systems (40), and other environmental topics, plus 'Browse by Language' filters showing Python (141), R (25), JavaScript (10), and other programming languages. Main content area shows 'Sort By' options and a search bar, followed by five climate-focused open source project listings: ClimKern (Python, 26 stars), CMIP7 Data Request Software (Python, 22 stars), PyBOP battery modeling tools (Python, 186 stars), censusdis U.S. Census data package (Python, 131 stars), and Wild Me Scout animal census tool (JavaScript, 11 stars). Each project displays description, programming language, star count, last activity date, and number of available issues marked with blue badges.

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Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com · 15/05/2026

Today, I'm excited to announce our next title! "Augment" is a forthcoming book featuring a collection of essays on the future of personal computing — specifically, on the kind we’d like to see more of in the future, and the ideas that might help us get there.

Augment is a forthcoming collection of essays on the future of personal computing: specifically, on the kind we as a species need in order to move beyond our stuck present, and on the ideas that will help us get there. This book is meant to serve as guidance and inspiration as we build a next generation of hardware, software, and systems.

We hope you’ll share this page with those you think might write great essays for Augment, and even consider writing one yourself. Submissions are due by July 31.

The technology field is today in a precarious state. A tsunamic tide of commercial thinking has managed the wholesale capture of practitioners, institutions, and dialogue. This capture has drained all imagination from our surround, and so actual invention has slid likewise near to zero. Along the way, the systems meant first to extend human reach have instead become dull and clanking manacles.

Yet the same quality that makes technology easy to hijack — that massless, abstract ductility — leaves it as easy to re-form. The opportunity is still with us, undimmed, to build anew the beautiful thing, the powerful thing, the luminous thing, the human thing. This then is the invitation: to trawl a net through waters that, far enough down, remain idea-rich and that, with care, might still teem.

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Saleh @mskayyali.com · 15/05/2026

New video on Interface Studies: The Receding User: Designing for Absence Interface design spent sixty years closing the distance between user and action. Certain aspects of generative AI and the software built around it suggest otherwise. youtube.com/watch?v=C0aC...

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The Receding User: Designing for Absence

YouTube video by Interface Studies

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

You know what's the biggest problem of tech meetups nowdays, atleast the kind I'm seeing in Bangalore, Mumbai Its filled to the brim with clout chasing/prestige chasing corporate credential flashing types

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The Making of Indian Statistics | Alter Magazine altermag.com/articles/the... The scrolling animation is something I've never come across from an Indian editorial, so good!

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

[Open Access] Learning Environments Design Reading Series pressbooks.pub/learningenvi... Learning to Solve Problems: A Handbook for Designing Problem-Solving Learning Environments by David Jonassen staibabussalamsula.ac.id/wp-content/u...

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Enhancing Science Education Exploring Knowledge Practices with Legitimation Code Theory Edited By Margaret A.L. Blackie, Hanelie Adendorff, Marnel Mouton legitimationcodetheory.com/wp-content/u...

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Who in UX is the best person to help understand the entire tooling for private LLMs? Like the UX behind each step of making unstructured data usable for on prem self-hosted private LLMs?

• Ingest: Unstructured.io + Tesseract (scanned receipts, bank PDFs)
• Clean: Presidio (redact SSN/EIN), dedupe duplicate invoices
• Classify: DistilBERT (tax doc vs. receipt vs. bank statement)
• Chunk: LlamaIndex (preserve table structure in Excel/PDF)
• Embed: BGE-large + Qdrant (with client/matter ACLs)
• Retrieve: Hybrid search + permission filters (only see your clients)
• Generate: Mistral Small 3.1 / Qwen 3.5 (Apache 2.0, on-prem)
• Observe: Langfuse (trace every calculation), Prometheus (GPU monitoring)
• Control: Keycloak (SSO) + Cerbos (client-level permissions)
• Automate: n8n (route exceptions to senior accountant)

USE CASES:
• Auto-categorize expenses from receipt photos
• Flag audit risks: missing docs, unusual variances
• Draft tax forms from structured workpapers
• Reconcile bank feeds vs. GL entries
• Generate client-ready financial summaries

COMPLIANCE:
• Data never leaves firm servers
• GDPR/IRS-ready audit logs (7-year retention)
• Client-level isolation (no cross-client data leak)
• Role-based access: staff ↔ manager ↔ partner

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I wish there was plato's allegory of the cave style of dialogue book for specifically for just two regular guys reconstructing major scientific and engineering concepts relevant to making flagship products of S&P 500

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Gaming Cancer: How Building and Playing Video Games Can Accelerate Scientific Discovery by Jeff Yoshimi www.amazon.in/Gaming-Cance... Gaming Cancer is an instruction manual for engineering games that motivate users to strain and sweat to find cancer cures.

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Modern engineering is already distributed across software, standards, notation, workflows, instruments, libraries, solvers, checklists, and teams. Closed-book exams pretend engineering is still an isolated skull activity.

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Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Tempeh 51g of low fat vegetarian protein in a single plate

Several strips of golden-brown stir fried tempeh arranged on a white plate with a grey wavy rim pattern. This serving contains 51g of low fat vegetarian protein in a single plate.

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