Outliers

Outliers

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Outliers episodes

  • Ep 39: Devi Shetty on why he’s obsessed with affordable healthcare
    Dr Devi Shetty of Narayana Health is more a pioneer and a disrupter than an Outlier. Shetty, who is widely credited with disrupting India’s healthcare scene with affordable surgeries, is shaping the future of healthcare in the country, too.
    And while he’s doing all that, he is relentlessly exploring new technologies from 3D printing to artificial intelligence and intelligent software algorithms for delivering more efficient and intelligent healthcare services. At the core of his hospital business is an assembly line approach he has adopted across his hospitals,
    “In 5-10 years from now, it will become legally mandatory for doctors to get approvals from a software program before they even start a treatment,” he tells me.
    Few days before I sat down with him for this podcast he made this statement in an interview with The Hindu, underscoring his bold vision for the future of healthcare and the professionals of tomorrow.
    “Kids who are really good at playing video games will become the best surgeons.”
    This episode of Outliers podcast lasts only around 13 minutes, unlike the past ones that are over 40 minutes and so on. Much like an espresso shot – short, intense and sharp.
    Happy listening.
    14 min
  • Ep 38: V Vinay on whether Simputer was a success or a failure
    The most significant innovation in computer technology in 2001 was not Apple's gleaming titanium PowerBook G4 or Microsoft's Windows XP. It was the Simputer. This is computing as it would have looked if Gandhi had invented it, then used Steve Jobs for his ad campaign.
    Source: Bruce Sterling in a The New York Times article published December 2001
    Was Simputer ahead of time?
    Was it a failure or success? Depending who you ask, the answers can be as varied as possible.
    To understand what happened with what the NY Times once described as the product of the year, I decided to sit down with IISc professor, scientist, and entrepreneur, V. Vinay, for this episode of the Outliers Podcast.
    55 min
  • Ep 38: V Vinay on whether Simputer was a success or a failure
    The most significant innovation in computer technology in 2001 was not Apple's gleaming titanium PowerBook G4 or Microsoft's Windows XP. It was the Simputer. This is computing as it would have looked if Gandhi had invented it, then used Steve Jobs for his ad campaign.
    Source: Bruce Sterling in a The New York Times article published December 2001
    Was Simputer ahead of time?
    Was it a failure or success? Depending who you ask, the answers can be as varied as possible.
    To understand what happened with what the NY Times once described as the product of the year, I decided to sit down with IISc professor, scientist, and entrepreneur, V. Vinay, for this episode of the Outliers Podcast.
    55 min
  • Ep 38: V Vinay on whether Simputer was a success or a failure
    The most significant innovation in computer technology in 2001 was not Apple's gleaming titanium PowerBook G4 or Microsoft's Windows XP. It was the Simputer. This is computing as it would have looked if Gandhi had invented it, then used Steve Jobs for his ad campaign.
    Source: Bruce Sterling in a The New York Times article published December 2001
    Was Simputer ahead of time?
    Was it a failure or success? Depending who you ask, the answers can be as varied as possible.
    To understand what happened with what the NY Times once described as the product of the year, I decided to sit down with IISc professor, scientist, and entrepreneur, V. Vinay, for this episode of the Outliers Podcast.
    55 min
  • Ep 37:Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy
    “When you see a door, you should get curious,” says Robert M. “Bob” Frankston, a computing pioneer who co-developed VisiCalc, a spreadsheet program with Dan Bricklin way back in 1979. We are discussing the engineering crisis and what should a young programmer do to stay relevant.
    “I hate the word coding; it’s like calling writing, typing.”
    As I sat with Bob for this episode of Outliers Podcast, we discussed everything from the future of computer programming to how algorithms and their masters such as Facebook, Google and Amazon are beginning to take control of our lives.
    “Algorithms are the new bureaucracy.”
    27 min
  • Ep 37:Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy
    “When you see a door, you should get curious,” says Robert M. “Bob” Frankston, a computing pioneer who co-developed VisiCalc, a spreadsheet program with Dan Bricklin way back in 1979. We are discussing the engineering crisis and what should a young programmer do to stay relevant.
    “I hate the word coding; it’s like calling writing, typing.”
    As I sat with Bob for this episode of Outliers Podcast, we discussed everything from the future of computer programming to how algorithms and their masters such as Facebook, Google and Amazon are beginning to take control of our lives.
    “Algorithms are the new bureaucracy.”
    27 min
  • Ep 37:Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy
    “When you see a door, you should get curious,” says Robert M. “Bob” Frankston, a computing pioneer who co-developed VisiCalc, a spreadsheet program with Dan Bricklin way back in 1979. We are discussing the engineering crisis and what should a young programmer do to stay relevant.
    “I hate the word coding; it’s like calling writing, typing.”
    As I sat with Bob for this episode of Outliers Podcast, we discussed everything from the future of computer programming to how algorithms and their masters such as Facebook, Google and Amazon are beginning to take control of our lives.
    “Algorithms are the new bureaucracy.”
    27 min
  • Ep 36: Dr Anil Gupta on what entrepreneurs must learn from grassroots innovators
    Many of you on the internet might know Professor Anil Gupta from his Ted Talk. But the work he does has far-reaching impact on grassroots innovation. Dr Gupta, a renowned scholar of grassroots innovations, founded Honeybee Networks many years ago with a simple mission: knowledge must benefit the people it comes from.
    His grouse with academics, who would often get insights from "knowledge rich and economically poor" people but fail to acknowledge or design solutions that would circle back to the poor, became the bedrock on which Honeybee Networks was founded.
    In this podcast, recorded in Ahmedabad in peak Navratri season (sorry about the background noise), we talked about how grassroots innovators make do with less by reusing parts of devices, designing products that are multifunctional and how some things don't need to be scaled to be successful.
    36 min
  • Ep 36: Dr Anil Gupta on what entrepreneurs must learn from grassroots innovators
    Many of you on the internet might know Professor Anil Gupta from his Ted Talk. But the work he does has far-reaching impact on grassroots innovation. Dr Gupta, a renowned scholar of grassroots innovations, founded Honeybee Networks many years ago with a simple mission: knowledge must benefit the people it comes from.
    His grouse with academics, who would often get insights from "knowledge rich and economically poor" people but fail to acknowledge or design solutions that would circle back to the poor, became the bedrock on which Honeybee Networks was founded.
    In this podcast, recorded in Ahmedabad in peak Navratri season (sorry about the background noise), we talked about how grassroots innovators make do with less by reusing parts of devices, designing products that are multifunctional and how some things don't need to be scaled to be successful.
    36 min
  • Ep 36: Dr Anil Gupta on what entrepreneurs must learn from grassroots innovators
    Many of you on the internet might know Professor Anil Gupta from his Ted Talk. But the work he does has far-reaching impact on grassroots innovation. Dr Gupta, a renowned scholar of grassroots innovations, founded Honeybee Networks many years ago with a simple mission: knowledge must benefit the people it comes from.
    His grouse with academics, who would often get insights from "knowledge rich and economically poor" people but fail to acknowledge or design solutions that would circle back to the poor, became the bedrock on which Honeybee Networks was founded.
    In this podcast, recorded in Ahmedabad in peak Navratri season (sorry about the background noise), we talked about how grassroots innovators make do with less by reusing parts of devices, designing products that are multifunctional and how some things don't need to be scaled to be successful.
    36 min

About Outliers

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A podcast about the ones who chose to take the road not taken often. It’s about the crazy and the curious. Those that dared to stand out, and stand alone. It’s about their journey through hope and disillusionment, failures and pitfalls, joy and success, pain and bliss. It’s a candid exploration of experiences and ideas that have driven some of the shining stars, told as is.