Simblified

Simblified_final_updated_REALFINAL.pptx

03 Apr 2024

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9 years, ~320 episodes.4 co-hosts, 6 producers, so many folks behind the scenes.Some 50 guests, thousands (!) of listeners, hundreds of thousands (!!!...

Aaaaand we're taking a break.

10 Jul 2023

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After 8 years, we've decided to hit the pause button. A short announcement as to why, and what's coming up. If you're the type who not just listens to...

Covid was supposed to change everything - has it?

03 Jul 2023

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Remember the 2020-2022? That was one heck of a time - and while we were living through it, it felt like EVERYTHING was changing and would stay that wa...

Consciousness - A User's Guide

26 Jun 2023

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What is consciousness?What do we know about our selves?Do we even have selves?These, and other questions have occupied the minds of fine thinkers over...

Advances in biology & biotech: With Avraneel Part 2

19 Jun 2023

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We speak to Simblified fan (!) and microbiologist Avraneel Paul on a whole bunch of things related to what happens inside our body! Viruses and bacter...

Advances in biology & biotech: With Avraneel Part 1

12 Jun 2023

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We speak to Simblified fan (!) and microbiologist Avraneel Paul on a whole bunch of things related to what happens inside our body! Viruses and bacter...

Half pints: High heels, marathon records and quietly quitting quiet quitting

04 Jun 2023

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It's another episode of Half Pints, where your panelists come in with a fact each. This time, we look at the origins of high heels, Tony's prediction ...

Biting the IPL hype pill

29 May 2023

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For 2 months a year, most of India is glued to a strange love. In this ep, Chuck and Tony are joined by Nitin Sundar to help understand how to learn t...

Sense and Censorability

15 May 2023

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The Simblified gang has always been fascinated with the concept of content moderation. They revisit the two sides of the argument in a time where book...

A Simblified look at the Five Love Languages

08 May 2023

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Have you wondered why your partner no longer looks at you with starry eyes? Your Simblified hosts try to figure out this enormously important and vexa...

Somewhere I belong

01 May 2023

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"The opposite of belonging is fitting in." Having chanced upon this quote, Tony did the logical thing and brought it to the Simblified gang to share t...

Half pints: Cricket facts, stories and stats

24 Apr 2023

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We've never done a cricket episode mostly because 3/4 of the panel doesn't really care for the sport anymore. But that's not to say we never cared for...

What motivates us humans?

17 Apr 2023

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A question that turns out to be quite hard to answer. What motivates you to do better? Money? Glory? That warm glow inside? Join your Simblified hosts...

Many money thoughts

10 Apr 2023

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Chuck recently read Morgan Housel's bestseller, The Psychology of Money. It's a fascinating book that speaks about the mental aspects of saving, wealt...

Half-pints episode: 10000 steps, reverse dowry in China and more

03 Apr 2023

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It's a new episode of Simbified half pints, the monthly affair where we come to the table with four random facts. This week: Why are brides in China ...

Celebrating 300 episodes, with Amit Varma

27 Mar 2023

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Wow, our little show has crossed a triple century! (Waves mic to audience) (gets scolded by producer)  Er... Anyway. In 2015 when Chuck and Naren dec...

The Flynn Effect and why smart people should know about it.

20 Mar 2023

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Moral Philosopher and Intelligence Researcher James Flynn wanted to debunk a racist article by UC Berkely professor Arthur Jensen (who was concluding ...

Growing up with Sidin Vadukut

13 Mar 2023

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In a special episode for Simblified, we turn the spotlight on Sidin Vadukut. Join us as the OG funny man of the internet who can turn travails of sout...

Our Canada correspondent reports

06 Mar 2023

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Our boy Srikeit has successfully made it to the West. As he acclimatises, he reports in with his findings from his first 10 days in a new country. Wha...

A fun conversation about subversion, innovation and disruption

27 Feb 2023

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It all started when Chuck read a book. He thought it would be a fun topic to bring onto the show to have one of those random fun discussions. Join th...

Lithium - A quick once over

20 Feb 2023

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From being a quiz question answer about 4 decades ago to being part of our everyday lives, Lithium is likely to be the most important thing in the nea...

Bye Srikeit :'(

13 Feb 2023

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What a clickbait title, no? Don't worry. Srikeit is not leaving Simblified, just our shores. Our man is relocating to more western pastures. So in t...

Non Profits - Making a Difference

06 Feb 2023

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We have often wondered what drives people to take up causes other than enriching oneself monetarily. Today we talk to one such person, Rohit Sar, and ...

Simblifying Economics with Ashish Kulkarni Part -2

30 Jan 2023

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The mark of a truly good teacher is when their former students invite them as experts on their podcasts" - Plato [citation needed] The Simblified gang...

Simblifying Economics with Ashish Kulkarni Part -1

23 Jan 2023

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The mark of a truly good teacher is when their former students invite them as experts on their podcasts" - Plato [citation needed] The Simblified gang...

2022 updates: Technology, supply chains, electric vehicles and more

16 Jan 2023

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  As we move into another revolution around the sun, we'd like to take a moment to look at some of the topics we spoke about over the last year, and ...

The World Cup, James Webb Telescope and more

09 Jan 2023

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2022 updates: The World Cup, James Webb Telescope and more As we move into another revolution around the sun, we'd like to take a moment to look at so...

Simblified Live : Go forth and create content!

26 Dec 2022

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A few weeks back, the Simblified gang were asked to do a live show for a podcasting event. We've captured the audio of the same to give you, our OG li...

BS simblified!

19 Dec 2022

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We are living in a world with constantly increasing levels of BS. Some of it is probably amusing but more often than not, BS irritates, distracts and ...

The death of Big Tech is greatly exaggerated

12 Dec 2022

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Layoffs, plummeting market caps, ambitious plans stalled, bad press... It looks like the majot tech firms just can't catch a break right now. Perhaps ...

Simblified Half-Pints

05 Dec 2022

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Four fun things. Many random discussions.So sometimes, we have a fun story, news story, fact or piece of trivia which we think is good Simblified fodd...

The transformative power of live music

28 Nov 2022

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For a music fan, there's nothing quite like a live performance. Whether you're the sort that zones out at a classical music show, enjoys happy vibes o...

Friendships

21 Nov 2022

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We've all had friends. Great friends, irritating friends, friends we don't know how we became friends with, in the first place. But what is it about t...

The united chaos of a divided Britain

07 Nov 2022

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That gang reconvenes to relook at the nation that once was the empire where the sun never set. And now they need a Rishi to do his magic for any light...

Is ONDC really the UPI of ecommerce?

24 Oct 2022

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There are literally hundreds of people who you should be listening to talking about the ambitious ONDC project - ecommerce experts, government officia...

The Calorie Jamboree - Part 2

17 Oct 2022

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The fundamentals of nutrition can be boiled down to the calorie. In this 2 part episode, the Simblified gang takes an amateur dive into how calories w...

The Calorie Jamboree - Part 1

10 Oct 2022

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The fundamentals of nutrition can be boiled down to the calorie. In this 2 part episode, the Simblified gang takes an amateur dive into how calories w...

Non Violent Communication

03 Oct 2022

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How often have you felt the need to yell your head off at someone or reach out and slap someone? But surprisingly, this is not the best way to deal wi...

Simblifying AI-generated art Part 2 [the implications]

26 Sep 2022

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You might have heard of DALL-E and Midjourney. If not, you might have seen some folks sharing all kinds of weird images on Twitter and Instagram with ...

Simblifying AI-generated art Part 1 [the tech behind it]

19 Sep 2022

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You might have heard of DALL-E and Midjourney. If not, you might have seen some folks sharing all kinds of weird images on Twitter and Instagram with ...

Is the great resignation still a thing?

12 Sep 2022

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Regular listeners / audio prisoners of Simblified will remember our dissection of the Great Resignation phenomenon.This week the full quorum of Simbli...

Web3 and why we should know more.. Part 2

05 Sep 2022

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The last few years has seen the emergence of cryptocurrency and blockchain. But did you know blockchain could be the start of a completely new way of ...

Web3 and why we should know more.. Part 1

29 Aug 2022

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The last few years has seen the emergence of cryptocurrency and blockchain. But did you know blockchain could be the start of a completely new way of ...

Chess nuts

22 Aug 2022

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India recently hosted the 44th Chess Olympiad, quite at the last minute. Not only did we perform excellently, we put up a very good show organization ...

Why musicians are selling catalog rights

08 Aug 2022

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You might have heard that Bob Dylan, RHCP, Neil Young and even David Guetta have sold the rights to their music to companies like Hipgnosis for obscen...

FIFA World Cup 2022 - Tech Qatar mein hai

01 Aug 2022

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We're almost at that brief quadrennial window when the whole world seems to get football obsessed (with the football perennials rolling their eyes at ...

The Branding masterclass

25 Jul 2022

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A shockingly serious and dare we say informative episode. The Simblified boys talk about branding and its evolution. Along the way we answer questions...

Your Digital Legacy

18 Jul 2022

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What happens to your digital presence after you die? Do you have control over it? Does it get passed on to your heirs? Will they really be able to sli...

Three non experts talk about globalisation

11 Jul 2022

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Well, the experts couldn't figure it out, so we thought we'd take a stab at it. Chuck, Srikeit and Tony speak about globalisation, what it is, whether...

Simblifying the Right to Repair

04 Jul 2022

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When was the last time any of you successfully repaired your phones (and used it for a while after)? If your reply is never, that is very much by desi...

Investing fundamentals, fails and flukes with Sameer Mohan - Part 2

27 Jun 2022

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This week the Simblified gang rope in regular listener and product marketer at Fisdom, Sameer Mohan, for a rambling chat on all things investment. We ...

Investing fundamentals, fails and flukes with Sameer Mohan - Part 1

20 Jun 2022

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This week the Simblified gang rope in regular listener and product marketer at Fisdom, Sameer Mohan, for a rambling chat on all things investment. We ...

Sheryl Sandberg's legacy

13 Jun 2022

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The most prominent / powerful tech COO in the world stepped down. Sheryl Sandberg, often the "adult in the room" and the person who turned Facebook fr...

Why aren't we excited about smartphones anymore?

06 Jun 2022

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Remember the good ol' days when we used to actually looked forward to buying a new phone? What happened in the middle? With that innocuous question, C...

How to make it in Stand-up ft Niveditha Prakasam

30 May 2022

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It's not often that you get access to one of the sharpest stand-ups in India right now, so Tony represented the Simblified gang to talk to Niveditha P...

To The Manure Born

23 May 2022

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Among the things our country spends money on, right up there with airplanes and cars, is fertilizer. Join your intrepid Simblified hosts as they dive ...

Bombay aka Mumbai, through Naren's stories - Part 2

16 May 2022

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We've always wanted to do an episode of just Naren's famous stories, and we decided to do just that. Over two episodes, we speak about this glorious c...

Bombay aka Mumbai, through Naren's stories (Part 1)

09 May 2022

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We've always wanted to do an episode of just Naren's famous stories, and we decided to do just that. Over two episodes, we speak about this glorious c...

Ice Cream - The inside scoop

02 May 2022

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Human progress is achieved by brave people of science who experiment with the world around them. Our own man of scientific temper, Naren, steps up to ...

What's Neu? Simblified discuss the Tata Superapp

25 Apr 2022

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Recently, the venerable Tata group released a SuperApp. The Simblified gang discuss what they think of it, made all the more interesting by the fact t...

See you later, tech regulator

18 Apr 2022

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The EU recently passed a set of regulations to reign in Big Tech. Yay! Or... Nay?See that's the thing. Regulating technology companies is so damn comp...

What's happening in Sri Lanka?

11 Apr 2022

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All is not well with our tiny southern neighbour.Worrying news of extreme food and resource shortages have been coming out of Sri Lanka these past few...

How form dictates content

04 Apr 2022

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When music went from blogs to Twitter, it didn't just change how it was consumed, but it changed the blogs to Twitter itself.Similarly, when we went f...

Mimetic theory? Copy that

28 Mar 2022

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Peter Thiel went from zero to one when he heard the lectures of Stanford anthropologist and philosopher Rene Girard. What were Girard's insights, and ...

A group discussion on MBA

14 Mar 2022

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In the most impromptu pivot ever, the Simblified gang switched topics mid recording and turned this episode into a group discussion about... group dis...

How will you measure your life?

07 Mar 2022

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Occasionally on Simblified, the gang resorts to profundity of the actual variety and ponder over the larger questions. Join Tony and Naren for one suc...

Board games and much more with Zain Memon

28 Feb 2022

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This week the Simblified gang sit down for a conversation with the Zain Memon, the creator of the wildly popular political strategy board game - Shasn...

Simblifying the fuss around American Football

21 Feb 2022

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In the wake of the most talked-about Superbowl halftime show, the Simblified gang get together to understand the actual sport called American Football...

AI aye aye: A discussion on Artificial Intelligence with Kartik and Shivam Part -2

14 Feb 2022

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Fill out our brand recall survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6HP2RVBAI aye aye: A discussion on Artificial Intelligence with Kartik and ShivamComp...

AI aye aye: A discussion on Artificial Intelligence with Kartik and Shivam

07 Feb 2022

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Fill out our brand recall survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6HP2RVBAI aye aye: A discussion on Artificial Intelligence with Kartik and Shivam&nbs...

Dr Nitin Arora: On Covid & Its Impact On The Medical Fraternity - Part 2

31 Jan 2022

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A few months back, we had intensivist Dr Nitin Arora join in and tell us what happens at an ICU, with special focus on this ruddy bug doing the rounds...

Dr Nitin Arora: On Covid & Its Impact On The Medical Fraternity

24 Jan 2022

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A few months back, we had intensivist Dr Nitin Arora join in and tell us what happens at an ICU, with special focus on this ruddy bug doing the rounds...

Simblifying The James Webb Telescope

17 Jan 2022

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Recently, NASA shot up a massive telescope so that we can all figure out where we came from. The James Webb Telescope is the culmination of decades of...

Web3, NFTs And All That: With Ekalavya (Part 2)

10 Jan 2022

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If you've been paying attention online, you might hear a lot of noise being made about something called web3... And NFTs... Not to mention cryptocurre...

Web3, NFTs and all that: With Ekalavya

03 Jan 2022

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If you've been paying attention online, you might hear a lot of noise being made about something called web3... And NFTs... Not to mention cryptocurre...

A Look back At Our 2021s

27 Dec 2021

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Well, it's the end of another year (wait, what, already?). The Simblified gang looks back at how the last 12 months have been for them, personally. Th...

Creating something around the creator economy

20 Dec 2021

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So what is the creator economy, exactly? Is it just some fancy new term applied to something that always existed, or is it actually a new paradigm, as...

Nudge Theory And Social Change

13 Dec 2021

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When Social Purpose Organizations get down to do their work, they sometimes find themselves having to beg people to change. Suman Srivastava, author o...

Elon Musk And The Billionaire Tax

06 Dec 2021

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Elon Musk decided to ask his Twitter followers if he should sell his shares to pay the tax due on the vesting of his stock options. And it looked as i...

Delhi Pollution - Simblified

29 Nov 2021

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Simblified correspondent Srikeit is on ground in our nation's capital to give a first-hand account of Delhi NCR's politics news-channels patriarchy in...

Google & Real - Time bullying

22 Nov 2021

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What goes on behind the scenes to bring you an ad when you visit a website? And how does Google control every touch point? Some litigators in the US g...

Simblified Gets Meta, Part 2

15 Nov 2021

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On Oct 28, Facebook announced a rebranding and spoke about its ambitions for becoming a Metaverse company. We did an episode on this last week, and th...

Simblified Gets Meta, Part 1

08 Nov 2021

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On Oct 28, Facebook announced a rebranding and spoke about its ambitions for becoming a Metaverse company. What does it mean? What do they want to do?...

Sportswashing Simblified

01 Nov 2021

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The Simblified quartet get together to discuss the phenomenon of Sportswashing illustrated by the recent Saudi takeover of Newcastle United Football C...

Jabs 'n' Punches: Simblifying MMA with Siddharth Rao

25 Oct 2021

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Mixed martial arts, that elegant sport on which contestants try their hardest to maim each other with their bare hands and legs, has gained immensely ...

An Expat's Perspective: Malaysia & India

18 Oct 2021

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One of our own, Srikeit, is coming back to India after spending 2 years revolutionising the advertising landscape in Kuala Lumpur. The Simblified folk...

Simblifying the Great Resignation

11 Oct 2021

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If you're seriously toying with the idea of quitting your job, you're not alone. The Great Resignation is a global phenomenon causing a major spike in...

Unraveling Vinyl Records | Ft Berty Ashley

04 Oct 2021

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Good ol' pal Berty joins us for the second successive episode on Simblified! This time, we speak about another of his passions - vinyl records! In a d...

Solving Genetic Diseases Ft. Berty Ashley

27 Sep 2021

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One of the smartest people we know joins us on the show! Berty Ashley is a good friend and a quizzer, music nerd and... Molecular biologist who by day...

Why are all Big Tech platforms trying to be like each other?

20 Sep 2021

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Amazon launches gaming. Facebook launches hardware. Everyone launches a Clubhouse clone. So all platforms are trying to be like each other. Join the S...

This One's For All The Engineers In Da House!

13 Sep 2021

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Sep 15 is Engineer's Day here in India! So the three engineers of the show (Chuck, Naren, Tony) get together (Srikeit was barred from participating as...

To eRUPI or not to eRUPI

06 Sep 2021

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The government of India recently announced a direct cash transfer program called the eRUPI (or e₹UPI), if you want to be pedantic). So, what's this ...

Simblifying Birthdays

30 Aug 2021

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Globally, most people are born in August - including two of Simblified's hosts. So on the august (hehe) occasion of Chuck's birthday, the Simblified g...

For Meta or Verse

23 Aug 2021

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The Metaverse has existed as a concept and in parts for years together. But we took notice when Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that he wants Facebook to b...

Why's the Chinese government killing its tech sector?

16 Aug 2021

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Over the last few weeks, the ruling party over at China has cracked down on its biggest internet sectors - EdTech, ecommerce, gaming and more. This ha...

Is China taking over the world? (Rebroadcast)

09 Aug 2021

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The Simblified boys are off this weekend (hard at work researching the next episode, promise!) so here's a nice dig into the archives.While Trump is b...

Getting Meta with Getting Meta

02 Aug 2021

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Chuck has gone and started another podcast. This one is called Getting Meta. It's a show on productivity, mental models, habits and how to live better...

The two companies at the heart of the semiconductor industry

26 Jul 2021

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The world as we know it today runs on silicon-based chips. Your phone, computer, amplifier for planar magnetic headphones, Xbox... Even cars, machines...

Simblifying Clubhouse (and other audio chat apps) with Meghnad

19 Jul 2021

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This week we delve into the world of Clubhouses, Spaces, Greenrooms or whatever Zuckerberg decides to call Facebook's audio chat iteration (our vote i...

The New Passport On The (Vax) Scene

12 Jul 2021

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The lads get together to discuss vaccine passports - don't worry, linking to aadhaar isn't mandatory (yet). We simblify what they are, where they're b...