Every pair, at once.
A scatterplot matrix shows how every variable relates to every other. Sploms does that for ideas.
A place for unexpected connections between fields, methods and tools. Each piece takes two things that rarely meet and looks at what they explain about each other.
Made by Elle Light, research analyst and product builder.
What a Sploms piece looks like
Two things that rarely meet, and what each explains about the other. First pairs coming.
- Zettelkasten × spaced repetitionTwo memory systems with opposite ideas about forgetting.
- Sociology fieldwork × user researchWhat fifty years of ethnography already knew about interviews.
- Game design × habit buildingLoops, rewards and the moment a player quits.
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