The Chishiki Podcast: Recent Episodes

The Chishiki Podcast

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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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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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

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.

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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. 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.

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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

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

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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

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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