Outsource Podcast: Recent Episodes
Caleb Chia
with Yash Dinesh and Jonathan Kim
This episode is Yash's love letter to the medical field. He lays out both his concerns about the field at large and his personal experiences as a student, while offering a window to the interior of a demanding career and industry. This episode will function as prologue to episodes to come concerning or related to healthcare and its relevant domains.
This podcast remains a passion project of its hosts centered around our belief in free thinking and open discussion. Sometimes this podcast must give way to other priorities, and we apologize if the episodes release less than regularly. We appreciate our listeners, and thank you for your patience.
with Jonathan Kim and Yash Dinesh
In this episode, we critique the perception of mental health within popular media, general discourse, and academic publication. In particular we dissect its exploitation for the growth of the psychiatric industry and consider the implications of a pop culture indebted to this narrative. Our final thoughts ground the human experience in the dual importance of living your own life and maintaining social bonds.
with Jonathan Kim and Yash Dinesh.
for this one, the usual cast is back in full bringing you a long episode. We cover a hundred years of history to explain how games are more than just fun and entertainment. Topics include H.G. Wells, RAND corp, my and Yash's experiences in the army, social engineering, and corporate structure.
The gamification of society conditions us towards an incentivized feedback loop of inauthentic connections and farcical experience. Outsource stands aloof, insisting that life is more. There is no quest and no tutorial. Know what it means to be a person before you cease to be one at all.
*Correction: Caleb says RAND corp's origins are with Lockheed Martin. RAND was instead started by Douglas Aircraft, later McDonnell Douglas
with Caleb Chia and Jonathan Kim. Special Guest: David Chang
for this special episode, we are joined by Industrial Design student and designer David Chang. We consider what makes a design good or valuable and what obstacles a designer faces in the industry. We hope you enjoy this discussion of how the world we experience is materialized.
with Jonathan Kim and Yash Dinesh
In this episode, we discuss the rise of Economics from cybernetic thought and address its assumptions and inadequacies. Our governments and institutions place great significance in Economic theory, yet do we understand the ideas we allow to underpin our society?
with Jonathan Kim and Yash Dinesh
What is going to happen to us? In this episode, we consider what science fiction can tell us about the rapid development of technology and the society of the future. We discuss Final Fantasy 7, Tesla, and why all of this might matter more than you think.
We had a lot of fun with this one and hope you enjoy it too. Thank you for your continued support of Outsource
with Yash Dinesh and Jonathan Kim
Join us as Yash leads the discussion for the first time, and we delve into the formulation, propagation, and acceptance of theories. In this episode we talk about how driving your car into a wall probably isn't the best idea (despite what quantum mechanics might tell you) and why everyone is just secretly selfish.
*we encountered some technical difficulties during the recording of this episode; please forgive us for any issues you might encounter while listening
with Jonathan Kim
We look back on the many notable events of 2020 and consider its implications for the future
with Jonathan Kim
on the Systems of Control which Run Modern Society, and living your own life
What should be the role of the education system, and is it filling that role today?
I am excited to share with you this wonderful discussion with Yash Dinesh, Jonathan Kim, and myself Caleb Chia. In this episode we explain why you're paying so much for professors to waste your time, why it's better to play video games than to go to school, and why everyone should cheat on tests.
Why does everyone have an opinion, and why are so many of them wrong?
Caleb talks with Yash about ideas, changing times, internet culture, and politics. We aim to establish a meaningful foundation for future episodes.
with Yash Dinesh
A short introduction episode to discuss the creation and future of the podcast.