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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 discuss our uniquely hilarious first investments, our investment philosophies, and the boom of investing digital content in India. Tune in and tune out your bear market woes! Follow Sameer Mohan on Twitter (@sleepyhead148) and check out Sameer's simb...

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 discuss our uniquely hilarious first investments, our investment philosophies, and the boom of investing digital content in India. Tune in and tune out your bear market woes! Follow Sameer Mohan on Twitter (@sleepyhead148) and check out Sameer's simb...

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 from an interesting idea into a money-making behemoth, decided to quit the company after 14 years. Srikeit and Chuck discuss her career and legacy, especially after the second half of it was stained with controversies. A short episode, but loads of rab...

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, Chuck, Srikeit and Tony reminisce about old Nokias, talk about gaming tech and whether the future will have personalised nutrition pills. It's a nice meandering conversation about technology, smartphones and our expectations of them. Also, your panel...

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 Prakasam on what it means to be a stand-up comic in India, the things that you don't see beneath the surface, and the only reason someone would quit stand-up once they made it. Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one pa...

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 into this pile and try to find out more Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part quality puns, and you get Simbli...

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 city and all it has to offer through Naren's experiences, stories and bad jokes and observations from the rest of the gang. From food to people to culture to music to smugglers (!), we do it all. Enjoy this two-part series which is one of the most int...

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 city and all it has to offer through Naren's experiences, stories and bad jokes and observations from the rest of the gang. From food to people to culture to music to smugglers (!), we do it all. Enjoy this two-part series which is one of the most int...

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 answer the question - what happens to someone who has a self-induced ice cream deficiency? The answer is ... um... fascinating. This episode is dollops of fun, sprinkled with facts about ice cream, and glazed with uncontrolled laughter. We promise th...

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 that 2/3rds of the hosts hadn't tried the app before the recording. Still, we discuss everything from branding to loyalty programs in this free-flowing discussion which no doubt will be referenced in their next board meeting. PS - Chuck wrote about th...

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 complicated and any seemingly good thing, will have a dark side as well. Join the Simblified hosts as they have a freewheeling discussion on this, touching upon some other important topics like whether Meta is actually evil, whether anti-trust will work...

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 weeks. The Simblified gang delves into the numerous independent and interconnected reasons for the greatest financial crisis in the island country's history. Join us as we unpack this unfortunate and deadly combination of problems ranging from inco...

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 from blogs to Twitter, the language/syntax/grammar itself changed. Chuck has constantly been constantly fascinated by how the form of the medium dictates the content because of consumption habits, economic imperatives etc and brings it as a group dis...

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 how did Peter Thiel interpret them? Join your simblified hosts as they scratch the surface of this fascinating topic and talk about their own views of it. Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references fr...

In the most impromptu pivot ever, the Simblified gang switched topics mid recording and turned this episode into a group discussion about... group discussions and more in an MBA. Tune in for our admissions on admissions. Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part q...

Occasionally on Simblified, the gang resorts to profundity of the actual variety and ponder over the larger questions. Join Tony and Naren for one such episode as we talk through Clayton Christensen's frameworks and theory on how to measure your life. Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part W...

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. We discuss Zain's unique content creation approach, how board games get built, the growing appetite for cerebral content in India and a lot more. A fascinating chat where the hour just flew by! Follow Zain Memon on Instagram (@zain.memon_) and Twit...

In the wake of the most talked-about Superbowl halftime show, the Simblified gang get together to understand the actual sport called American Football that happens around that show. Join us as we try to simblify the rules, culture and oddities of the sport by answering burning questions like, "Why is that hand egg called a football?", "WTF is an oblate spheroid?" Why are they hitting each other so...

Fill out our brand recall survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6HP2RVB AI aye aye: A discussion on Artificial Intelligence with Kartik and Shivam Complex things like AI, machine learning, data science, deep learning and reverse swing (ok maybe not that one) have been on our collective minds for years now. There's a lot of noise, misconceptions and prejudiced opinion about the whole thing so we d...

Fill out our brand recall survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6HP2RVB AI aye aye: A discussion on Artificial Intelligence with Kartik and Shivam  Complex things like AI, machine learning, data science, deep learning and reverse swing (ok maybe not that one) have been on our collective minds for years now. There's a lot of noise, misconceptions and prejudiced opinion about the whole thing s...

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 now. This time he joins us back for a freewheeling conversation on Covid and its impact on the medical fraternity: From what young residents are going through right now, to what the larger impact might be. It's a wide-ranging conversation and one we...

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 now. This time he joins us back for a freewheeling conversation on Covid and its impact on the medical fraternity: From what young residents are going through right now, to what the larger impact might be. It's a wide-ranging conversation and one we...

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 work, and will do things that no other telescope has done before. It will apparently use fancy things like Infrared technology to look back 13 billion years (!) and perhaps even see if there's life on other planets. No pressure, JW! Join the Simblif...

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 cryptocurrencies. We tried our level best to make sense of them but decided this was too heavy a topic to leave to the feeble minds hosting the podcast, so we decided to bring on an expert - Ekalavya Bhattacharya. Eka is an entrepreneur in the web3 space, and a...

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 cryptocurrencies. We tried our level best to make sense of them but decided this was too heavy a topic to leave to the feeble minds hosting the podcast, so we decided to bring on an expert - Ekalavya Bhattacharya. Eka is an entrepreneur in the web3 space, and a...