6 episodes
The Chishiki Podcast The Chishiki Podcast
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Welcome to The Chishiki podcast, with your hosts, Kumara Raghavendra and Vikas Sridhar. In this podcast, each week, we explore a topic that has been on our minds in relative depth. These could be anything that we found interesting, learnt from or simply felt would be a good conversation for us.
Kumara has worked in Product Management at Amazon, Careem (Uber), Booking.com, Flipkart, Practo and Reliance Jio
Vikas has worked in Product Management at Mindgeek, Toptal and Ola Cabs
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Introducing Product Stories
Hi there! I’m Kumara, a co-host of The Chishiki Podcast, alongside Vikas Sridhar. Today, I’d like to introduce you to a new podcast that I’ve launched this week, called Product Stories. Here’s the first episode of it. We’ll be back with another episode of The Chishiki podcast next time.
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Ep.5 - CRISPR and the wonders of gene editing
Welcome to The Chishiki podcast, with your hosts, Kumara Raghavendra and Vikas Sridhar. In this podcast, each week, we explore a topic that has been on our minds in relative depth. These could be anything that we found interesting, learnt from or simply felt would be a good conversation for us. In today’s episode, we talk about the subject of last month's award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - CRISPR.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Selected links from the episode
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
A crack in creation by Jennifer Doudna
Unnatural Selection, the documentary
The timeline of CRISPR
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Ep.4 - Why oh why?!
Welcome to The Chishiki podcast, with your hosts, Kumara Raghavendra and Vikas Sridhar. In this podcast, each week, we explore a topic that has been on our minds in relative depth. These could be anything that we found interesting, learnt from or simply felt would be a good conversation for us. In today’s episode, we talk about the most important word that kick starts all kinds of scientific research. We talk about 'why'.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Selected links from the episode
The book of why
Randomized Controlled Trials
Kumar's Blog
We'd love to hear from you on what you think of the show - both the nice and the not so nice. Leave us a review on Apple podcasts. -
Ep. 3 - How to overcome fear and procrastination and make the right decisions
Welcome to The Chishiki podcast, with your hosts, Kumara and Vikas. In this podcast, each week, we explore a topic that has been on our minds in relative depth. These could be anything that we found interesting, learnt from or simply felt would be a good conversation for us. In today’s episode, we talk about the ways in which people make decisions and how we can set ourselves up to overcome fear and procrastination while making important decisions.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Selected links from the episode
The Dark Knight Rises
Kumar's Blog
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Ep.2 - Anatomy of a City
Welcome to The Chishiki podcast, with your hosts, Kumara and Vikas. In this podcast, each week, we explore a topic that has been on our minds in relative depth. These could be anything that we found interesting, learnt from or simply felt would be a good conversation for us. In today’s episode, we talk about cities, what makes them tick, why we are drawn to them and whether they’re going to remain the same after the pandemic.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Selected links from the episode
The Great Convergence by Richard Baldwin
Scale by Geoffrey West
Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
Kumar's Blog
We'd love to hear from you on what you think of the show - both the nice and the not so nice. Write to us at kumara@kumartalks.com -
Ep.1 - Decoding the Social Dilemma
Welcome to The Chishiki podcast, with your hosts, Kumara and Vikas. In this podcast, each week, we explore a topic that has been on our minds in relative depth. These could be anything that we found interesting, learnt from or simply felt would be a good conversation for us. In today’s episode, we talk about the effects of Tech companies on our lives.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Selected links from the episode
The Social Dilemma
Deep Work
Kumar's Blog
We'd love to hear from you on what you think of the show - both the nice and the not so nice. Write to us at kumara@kumartalks.com