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Zero Shot (Private)'Vibe coding lawyers': How AI is changing work at Trilegal"We have vibe coding and Biryani sessions on Fridays…”This is not a scene from a tech startup or a weekend hackathon. It is a statement by Nikhil Narendran, a partner at Trilegal who heads the firm’s digital innovation group.Naturally, our host Praveen Gopal Krishnan was taken aback. Lawyers who are coding away? Who could imagine?Praveen was even more surprised when Nikhil said he almost never types and only uses Wispr Flow now. “You are the first non-tech person to say that,” he admits.This episode takes you inside a l...
2026-02-1150 min
The a16z ShowHealthcare 2026: AI Doctors, GLP-1s, and Insurance DefectionOut-of-Pocket is a healthcare education company founded by Nikhil Krishnan that helps people understand how healthcare works and how to navigate it in practice. In this episode, a16z Health and Bio partner Jay Rughani and Nikhil discuss why health insurance is losing its role as the default way people access care. They explain how rising costs are pushing more consumers to pay out of pocket for diagnostics, preventive care, and navigation. The conversation also looks at what this shift means for startups, AI-powered tools, regulation, and access as healthcare continues to move beyond insurance.Resources:
2026-01-271h 34
Raising HealthHealthcare 2026: AI Doctors, GLP-1s, and Insurance DefectionOut-of-Pocket is a healthcare education company founded by Nikhil Krishnan that helps people understand how healthcare works and how to navigate it in practice. In this episode, a16z investing partner Jay Rughani and Nikhil discuss why health insurance is losing its role as the default way people access care. They explain how rising costs are pushing more consumers to pay out of pocket for diagnostics, preventive care, and navigation. The conversation also looks at what this shift means for startups, AI-powered tools, regulation, and access as healthcare continues to move beyond insurance. Resources:
2026-01-271h 34
Past Present FutureFilms of Ideas: Wittgenstein w/Nikhil KrishnanThe fourth episode in our season of live recordings from the Regent Street Cinema is about another film that explores the relationship between biography and philosophy: Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein (1993), which tells the story of an extraordinary life in a way that is both light and profound. David talks to writer and philosopher Nikhil Krishnan about Ludwig Wittengenstein’s ideas of war, science, truth, freedom, sexuality, language, loyalty and communism and how they are portrayed on screen. Does the life explain the ideas or do the ideas explain the life?
Next time: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind w...
2025-12-2859 min
Next-Gen Tech: Innovate or DieAI Revolution 2025: NVIDIA, Tech Giants Reshape Future with Energy Breakthroughs, Multimodal Innovation, and Collaborative IntelligenceIn the high-stakes arena of next-generation technology, the mantra is clear: innovate or die. As 2025 draws to a close on this Christmas Day, the tech landscape pulses with urgency, where companies either harness AI's explosive potential or risk obsolescence. Nikhil Basu Trivedi of NBT Substack revisits his 2025 predictions, noting how AI has birthed hundreds of capital-efficient startups, mirroring ChatGPT's meteoric rise to 300 million weekly users in just two years. Big tech giants like Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft accelerated earnings per share and free cash flow, while AI workers—coders, salespeople, and support agents—evolved from assistants to true collaborators, as E...
2025-12-2503 minPast Present FutureFilms of Ideas: Rosa Luxemburg w/Lea YpiToday’s episode in our season of live recordings from the Regent Street Cinema looks at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s Rosa Luxemburg (1986), which explores the deeply unstable relationship between the personal and the political. David talks to writer and philosopher Lea Ypi (Free, Indignity) about where biography ends and philosophy begins and whether revolutionary politics requires the leading of a revolutionary life. What was Rosa Luxemburg’s true cause? Who or what betrayed her and her ideas? And how does her legacy live on?
Out now on PPF+: a bonus episode to accompan...
2025-12-241h 01
The Minor Books PodcastChristmas GateNikhil and Raph are joined by Ben Sims, who has a Substack newsletter called 'Short Stories Once a Month', to discuss Max Beerbohm's A Christmas Garland (1912) and Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate (1986). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-12-0158 minThe Minor Books PodcastRhapsodesRaph and Nikhil are joined by David Egan, Koç University, Istanbul, to talk about Robert Bringhurst's A Story As Sharp As a Knife and Ismail Kadare's The File on H (tr. David Bellos). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-11-0756 minPast Present FutureLive Special: Who Rules the World? Trump, Tech and the Fight for the FutureToday’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival: David talks to Bruno Maçães and Sarah Wynn-Williams about who is winning in the fight for control between China and America, between state power and corporate power and between AI and humanity. Where are the battlegrounds in the fight for the future? What are the weapons? And how will we know what victory looks like?
Out now on PPF+: A bonus episode with more of your questions and suggestions for how to fix democracy and more answers from the two Davids...
2025-10-2957 minPast Present FutureFixing Democracy: Confronting the StrongmenFor the final episode in this series David talks to historian Ayse Zarakol about the prospects for democracy in the age of strongman politics, from Trump to Erdogan, from Orban to Modi. Where did the strongmen come from? How unusual is this kind of politics in the broad sweep of history? Does democracy have the wherewithal to resist its pull? And if not, what happens next?
The 4th film in our autumn season at the Regent Street Cinema in London is coming up on Wednesday 5th November: a screening of Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein followed by a live...
2025-10-221h 11
The London Lecture SeriesThe Problematic and the Unproblematic, Nikhil KrishnanThis lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Nikhil Krishnan. The politics of the last decade have been accused of moralistic excess. If this is fair, how might moral philosophy cure us of moralism?Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.
2025-10-101h 29The Minor Books PodcastHeaven's ThirstNikhil and Raph are joined by Alistair Henfrey, Head of English at Winchester College, to talk about Mark Doty's Heaven's Coast: A Memoir (1996) and Adam Mars-Jones's The Waters of Thirst (1993). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-09-0159 min
AWS for Software Companies PodcastEp130: Agentic AI - Transforming Enterprise Technology with leaders from C3 AI, Resolve AI and Scale AIEnterprise AI leaders from C3 AI, Resolve AI, and Scale AI reveal how Fortune 100 companies are successfully scaling agentic AI from pilots to production and share secrets for successful AI transformation.Topics Include:Panel introduces three AI leaders from Resolve AI, C3 AI, and Scale AIResolve AI builds autonomous site reliability engineers for production incident responseC3 AI provides full-stack platform for developing enterprise agentic AI workflowsScale AI helps Fortune 100 companies adopt agents with private data integrationMoving from AI pilots to production requires custom solutions, not shrink-wrap softwareSuccess demands working directly with customers to understand their specific...
2025-08-1130 minThe Minor Books PodcastPlums and PoppiesRaph and Nikhil are joined, for the last episode in our series on short story collections, by Henry Oliver, author among other things of the Substack newsletter The Common Reader, to discuss Jane Gardam's 1994 collection Going Into a Dark Room. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-08-0157 minThe Minor Books PodcastIndus Valley PicnicsNikhil and Raph are joined by Supriya Nair, one of the hosts of The Lit Pickers Podcast, to discuss the Pakistani-American writer Daniyal Mueenuddin's 2009 collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-07-1357 minThe Minor Books PodcastCat CrystalRaph and Nikhil are joined again by Rey Conquer, author of the forthcoming How To Live Together (Fitzcarraldo), to discuss Adalbert Stifter's Motley Stones (1853, tr. Isabel Fargo Cole, NYRB Classics). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-06-0157 min
Open Book"Enterprise AI and ML for Managers" by Nikhil Krishnan, Ph.D.We break down the often-intimidating world of AI & ML for business leaders. Dr. Nikhil Krishnan’s Enterprise AI and ML for Managers offers a clear, strategic roadmap for how organizations can adopt AI effectively. We explore key concepts, real-world applications, and practical frameworks to help decision-makers harness AI’s potential—without needing a Ph.D. to get started.
2025-05-2330 min
The Minor Books PodcastCrocodile ShopsNikhil and Raph are joined by the writer and translator Joshua Billings to talk about Bruno Schulz's 1934 collection Sklepy Cynamonowe, translated from the Polish by Celina Wieniewska in 1963. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-04-1653 min
The MockingcastEpisode 276: Love Has a Million Disguises (But Winning Is Simply Not One)In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk comic marriages, unruly kids, brainwashed Christians and Lenten props. Also, RJ recounts his favorite ever baptism while Sarah revises her opinion of frozen margaritas.
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2025-04-141h 13
The Minor Books PodcastLabour WritesRaph and Nikhil are joined by Lucy Jackson, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, to talk about the American writer Tillie Olsen's 1961 collection of short stories, Tell Me a Riddle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-03-1647 min
The Minor Books PodcastDolphins in the BosphorusNikhil and Raph are joined by Peter Cherry of the British Institute at Ankara in the first episode of a new series about short story collections. In this episode, they discuss Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe's translation of selected stories by the Turkish writer Sait Faik: A Useless Man (2014). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-02-1557 minThe Minor Books PodcastTunnel VisionRaph and Nikhil talk to Peter Huhne about Ernesto Sabato's El Túnel (1948, tr. Margaret Sayers Peden) and Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac's D'Entre Les Morts (1954, tr. Geoffrey Sainsbury). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-01-1558 minThe Minor Books PodcastThat LightNikhil and Raph talk to Henry Eliot about Yūko Tsushima's Territory of Light (1977/78, tr. Geraldine Harcourt, 2018) and Sonallah Ibrahim's That Smell (1966, tr. Robyn Cresswell, 2013). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-12-151h 01The Minor Books PodcastIndignityRaph and Nikhil talk to novelist and critic Anjum Hasan about Anita Desai's In Custody (1984) and Dag Solstad's Shyness and Dignity (1994, tr. Sverre Lyngstad 2006).Errata: We give the wrong date of publication for both books at points during the episode. In Custody was published not in 1988 but 1984; Shyness and Dignity was published not in 1999 but 1994. At 5:48, when Anjum Hasan talks about the Urdu language’s relationship with the Indian state, the sentence should have been ‘Urdu is not patronised to the extent that Hindi is’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
2024-11-171h 00The Minor Books PodcastMaid in HungaryNikhil and Raph are joined by writer and translator Arshia Sattar to discuss Magda Szabo's The Door (1987, tr. Len Rix 2005) and Margaret Forster's Lady's Maid (1990). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-10-151h 05The Minor Books PodcastDeath in SienaRaph and Nikhil are joined by Richard Foster, teacher and museum curator at Winchester College, to talk about Hisham Matar's A Month in Siena (2019) and T. J. Clark's The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-09-151h 04The Minor Books PodcastMotherland du LacNikhil and Raph are joined by Peter Cherry, author of Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film: Transcultural Identity and Migration in Britain and Assistant Director of the British Institute at Ankara, to discuss Yusuf Atılgan's Motherland Hotel (tr. Fred Stark, 1973/2017) and Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac (1984). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-08-151h 05The Minor Books PodcastEnglish BachelorsRaph and Nikhil are joined by Oliver Soden, author of Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward, to discuss two novels about spiritualist mediums: Muriel Spark's The Bachelors and R. K. Narayan's The English Teacher. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-07-151h 08The Minor Books PodcastBloody DrinkardNikhil and Raph discuss Amos Tutuola's 1952 novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard and Angela Carter's 1979 collection of dark fairy tales, The Bloody Chamber. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-06-1657 minThe Minor Books PodcastAll SoldiersRaph and Nikhil welcome guest Minoo Dinshaw, author of Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman, to talk about Javier Marías's All Souls and Javier Cercas's Soldiers of Salamis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-05-1650 minLondon Aesthetics ForumNikhil Krishnan (Cambridge): “The Rights of Texts”
Nikhil Krishnan (Cambridge) presents “The Rights of Texts” at Senate House in London (24/04/2024, 16-18:00) for the London Aesthetics Forum. Please do not cite or reproduce without permission.
2024-04-2400 minThe Minor Books PodcastThe Quest for TracesNikhil and Raph discuss two experimental biographies of minor writers: A. J. A. Symons's The Quest for Corvo and Iman Mersal's Traces of Inayat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-04-1748 min
MULTIVERSES29 | What are words good for? — Nikhil Krishnan on Ordinary Language PhilosophyWords. (Huh? Yeah!) What are they good for? Absolutely everything.At least this was the view of some philosophers early in the 20th century, that the world was bounded by language. ("The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" to use Wittgenstein's formulation over the Edwin Starr adaptation)My guest this week is Nikhil Krishnan a philosopher at University of Cambridge and frequent contributor to the The New Yorker His book A Terribly Serious Adventure, traces the path of Ordinary Language Philosophy through the 20th century.We discuss the logical...
2024-04-121h 37
Ops I did it again by Out of PocketHow Photon Used Automations to Change E-Prescriptions | Michael Rado, CPO, Co-Founder, Photon HealthIn this episode of Ops I Did It Again, Michael Rado (aka Rado), Co-Founder and CPO at Photon Health joins the thinksquad aka Danielle and Nikhil to break down how they built and scaled products to support over 20,000 e-prescriptions a month. Rado shows a live demo of their build (on YouTube version) and candidly shares his learnings on how to scale with optimization and automation in mind. This episode is sponsored by Out of Pocket, because no one is prouder than us than us: https://www.outofpocket.health/To register for the upcoming Healthcare Call C...
2024-03-2834 min
Ops I did it again by Out of PocketDigital Health Ops: A Playbook for Every Growth Stage | Rahul Agarwal, COO MedplumOn this episode of Ops I Did it Again, Rahul Agarwal (COO of Medplum) joins Danielle to share his digital health operations playbook. The “hero’s journey” playbook breaks down pro tips and gotchas throughout every stage of scale: from pre-seed all the way to scaling to 50 states.If you are building a clinical workforce, scaling your digital health operations or looking into the future on how you should be building, this episode will give you several tactical tips to implement.This episode is sponsored by Out of Pocket, because no one is prouder than us tha...
2024-03-1843 minThe Minor Books PodcastThe Cruel Way to TrebizondRaph and Nikhil are joined by Rey Conquer, author of Reading Colour: George, Rilke, Kandinsky, Lasker-Schüler, to talk about Rose Macaulay's The Towers of Trebizond and Ella Maillart's The Cruel Way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-03-151h 01
Ops I did it again by Out of PocketBuilding Differentiated Patient Experiences | Kerem Ozkay, COO and Ayo Omojola CPO, Carbon HealthIn this episode of Ops I Did It Again, Kerem Ozkay (Chief Operating Officer) and Ayo Omojola (Chief Product Officer) from Carbon Health join the thinksquad aka Danielle and Nikhil, to discuss how they designed and deployed product solutions. They breakdown real examples of AI tools to enhance operations, strategies for patient care, and unique top of funnel marketing approaches. Later in the episode, Ayo shares a behind the scenes view at Carbon’s home grown EHR - it’s best viewed on YouTube so you can all the magic.This episode is sponsored by Out o...
2024-02-291h 06The Minor Books PodcastAbandonment and TrickeryNikhil and Raph discuss Elena Ferrante's The Days of Abandonment and Domenico Starnone's Trick. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-02-161h 03
Ops I did it again by Out of PocketHow Thyme Care Scales Care Teams | Nate Brown, VP Market OperationsNate Brown joins the Thinksquad, aka Danielle and Nikhil, to share lessons learned from scaling a 90 person care team in 3 years at Thyme Care.We break down their organizational design, recruiting best practices (which includes lots of role play) and how to generally think through building alignment at different levels and stages of a start-ups evolution.This episode is sponsored by Out of Pocket, because no one is prouder than us than us: https://www.outofpocket.health/You should also check out our courses, including ones taught by yours truly (How to Build A...
2024-02-0635 min
Disruptive Forces in InvestingA New Era for Private CreditThe recent buzz around private credit has captured the attention of investors worldwide. It has also demonstrated remarkable resilience amid economic uncertainties. So what opportunities does it present for both institutional and retail investors today? How has private credit disrupted traditional lending? And how could a potential recession affect how investors could capitalize on this asset class? On this episode of Disruptive Forces, Anu Rajakumar welcomes Nikhil Krishnan, Managing Director of Neuberger Berman Capital Solutions, to discuss the evolution of the private credit landscape and determine if the bubble will burst or if it even exists at all...
2024-01-3015 min
MULTIVERSES23| Paulina Sliwa — Moral philosophy as puzzles of daily lifeWhy do men do less housework? What happens when an apology is offered? What are we looking for when we ask for advice?These are the sorts of problems drawn from everyday experience that Paulina Sliwa intends to resolve and in doing so make sense of the ways we negotiate blame and responsibility.Paulina is a Professor of Moral & Political Philosophy at the University of Vienna. She looks carefully at evidence accessible to us all — daily conversations, testimony from shows like This American Life, and our own perceptions — and uses these to unravel our moral prac...
2024-01-181h 11
The Minor Books PodcastAli, Nino and the OrientalistRaph and Nikhil discuss Kurban Said's Ali and Nino and Tom Reiss's The Orientalist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-01-1552 min
Ops I did it again by Out of PocketAledade’s Patient Engagement Playbook | Douglas Streat, COO Aledade Care SolutionsIn this episode of Ops I Did It Again, Douglas Streat, COO of Aledade Care Solutions, joins the thinksquad, Danielle and Nikhil to unpack how they built patient engagement strategies to support over 2M patients alongside primary care practices. Doug shares his tactical advice and learnings on how to create behavior change - we also get to play a fun game during it. It’s our most tactical episode yet.This episode is sponsored by Out of Pocket, because no one is prouder than us than us: https://www.outofpocket.health/To register for the up...
2024-01-1139 min
The ADHD Book Club PodcastEpisode 26 - Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. SapolskyFor this episode, we’re reading Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky! Nikhil Krishnan of The New Yorker said, “Sapolsky’s summaries are pithy and pacy, his spoiling-for-a-fight tone enjoyably provocative.” Ashley says, “The summary is we have no free will, and he is going to tell you the science about it.” Korey says, “Yeah, he’s gonna science it up about why we have no free will.” Tune into this riveting conversation now! 🧠
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2024-01-0946 min
Ops I did it again by Out of PocketHoliday Special: 12 Tactical Healthcare Ops TipsThis episode is sponsored by Out of Pocket, because no one is prouder of us than us: https://www.outofpocket.health/You should also check out our courses, including ones taught by yours truly (How to Build A Healthcare Call Center and Healthcare 101): https://www.outofpocket.health/course-library--- Hosts:Nikhil Krishnan (twitter: https://twitter.com/nikillinit)Danielle Poreh (linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielleporeh/ twitter: https://twitter.com/danielleporeh )Guest:Sandy Varatharajah (twitter: https://twitter.com/sanvrajah?lang=en)TIMESTAMPS ...
2023-12-2839 min
Ops I did it again by Out of PocketReal Gen AI Use Cases in Healthcare | Matthew Woo, Co-Founder & Product at Summer HealthMatthew Woo, Co Founder and Head of Product at Summer Health joins the thinksquad, aka Danielle and Nikhil to unpack how Summer Health builds an AI first company. He breaks down how they think through operationalizing AI, instilling an AI first culture throughout their team and how you can start applying it now.This episode is sponsored by Out of Pocket, because no one is prouder than us than us.You should also check out our courses, including ones taught by yours truly (How to Build A Healthcare Call Center and Healthcare 101).Referenced...
2023-12-1952 minOps I did it again by Out of PocketHow House Rx Builds Product | Denali Cahoon & Mina IskarousThey share their lessons learned and core principles that made the build happen so quickly. We go deeper into interview tips, building flexibility in product and frameworks to ensure alignment along the way. This episode is sponsored by Out of Pocket, because no one is prouder than us than us: https://www.outofpocket.health/You should also check out our courses, including ones taught by yours truly (How to Build A Healthcare Call Center and Healthcare 101): https://www.outofpocket.health/course-libraryNouns and Verbs Framework Example: https://www.figma.com/file/12KN4gcVbGMRZ8r...
2023-12-0742 min
Ops I did it again by Out of PocketText your patients | Ajay Haryani, MDIn this episode, he shares his clinical and operational playbook for executing on the channel effectively and even laughs at Nikhil’s jokes. We go deeper into how they measure value, track SLAs and how the channel has evolved. For folks who are in the value based care world, looking to incorporate texting into their care model or curious about how Galileo tapped into the channel so effectively, this one is made for you.--This episode is sponsored by Out of Pocket, because no one is prouder of us than us: https://www...
2023-11-3057 minOps I did it again by Out of PocketIntroducing Ops I did it againIntroducing Ops I did it again, a limited series podcast by Out-of-Pocket, hosted by Danielle Poreh and Nikhil Krishnan. We interview builders in healthcare operators breaking the mold (aka solving problems all ops people are facing)First episode dropping soon!Links:Out of Pocket: https://www.outofpocket.health/How to Build a Healthcare Call Center Course: https://www.outofpocket.health/courses/how-to-build-a-healthcare-call-centerKnowledgefest 2024 Waitlist: https://www.outofpocket.health/knowledgefest-lp
2023-11-2001 min
Arts & IdeasOxford PhilosophyThe influence of World War Two on philosophical thinking is the focus of today's discussion as Chris Harding explores the years when the University of Oxford hosted one of the most distinctive and influential philosophy departments in the English speaking world. Thinkers like J.L. Austin, Gilbert Ryle and Elizabeth Anscombe, although very different in their own right, developed a style of philosophising that is sometimes called 'ordinary language philosophy': rejecting grand theory or metaphysical speculation, it was driven by the earnest conviction that philosophical problems could be dissolved, rather than solved, by paying close attention to the minutiae...
2023-07-121h 09
Stream Popular Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureA Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960 by Nikhil KrishnanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960 Author: Nikhil Krishnan Narrator: Kieran Hodgson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Teeming with Oxford characters [and] lively storytelling . . . [recasts] the history of philosophy at Oxford in the mid-twentieth century by conveying not only what made it influential in its time but also what might make it vital in ours.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “Ordinary Language can hardly convey how much I loved this book.”—Tom Stoppard, Time...
2023-07-0410 min
Dive Into: This Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook For Curious Minds.A Terribly Serious Adventure by Nikhil KrishnanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/90826to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Terribly Serious Adventure
Author: Nikhil Krishnan
Narrator: Kieran Hodgson
Format: mp3
Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 07-04-23
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 10 ratings
Genres: Philosophers
Publisher's Summary:
These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century Britain, a period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism. In response to these events, thinkers such as Philippa Foot (originator of the famous trolley problem), Isaiah Berlin, Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe, Gilbert Ryle, and J. L. Austin aspired to a new level of watchfulness and self-awareness about...
2023-07-0411h 48
The Iris Murdoch Society podcastA Terribly Serious Adventure PodcastIn this episode Miles is joined by Nikhil Krishnan(University of Cambridge)to discuss his new book 'A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-1960'.
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We cover the change in generational thinking, the rise of linguistic analysis and 'ordinary language philosophy', and the key figures of the time, including Ryle, Ayer, J.L. Austin and, of course, the Quartet: Anscombe, Foot, Midgley and Murdoch.
Nikhil Krishnan is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College. He wrote his doctorate in Philosophy...
2023-05-221h 00
Relentless Health ValueEncore! EP355: The 5 Business Models for Digital Health Companies, With Nikhil KrishnanThis week, I am with my Aventria team on-site at one of our clients. We are holding a full-day workshop to help our client figure out who all across the healthcare industry they will need to get aligned with to achieve greater success in the market and how to handle all of these inevitably conflicting interests strategically and also potentially from a messaging standpoint. I'm one of the subject matter experts who gets to pipe up during the part where we talk about all of these market dynamics, what everybody is up to, and who is going...
2023-02-0235 min
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit VarmaThe Loneliness of the Indian ManWomen are not the only victims of patriarchy -- men are also diminished by it. Nikhil Taneja joins Amit Varma in episode 303 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss what he has learnt about mental health, young people in India, the epidemic of loneliness in our country -- and the enormous power of storytelling. (For full linked show notes, go to SeenUnseen.in.) Also check out: 1. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya). 2. Nikhil Taneja on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, IMDb and HT Brunch. 3. Yuvaa. 4. The internet—a toxic love stor...
2022-11-147h 23
Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil KrishnanEp 6: Nikhil Krishnan on Doctor Influencers and Healthcare Hot TakesJacob sits down with Nikhil Krishnan, founder of Out of Pocket, to discuss his path to becoming a healthcare meme king and the community he's building to get more people into healthcare and make it easier to start health tech businesses. They also hit on Nikhil’s thoughts on physician payment, big tech in healthcare and more.
2022-09-1344 min
Seed to HarvestFounder and Creator of Out of Pocket Nikhil Krishnan on Memes, Using Humor To Explain The Healthcare System, And The Process Behind Self-Publishing An Illustrated Children’s Book | Seed To Harvest S2 Ep10Send us a textIn this episode, I speak with Nikhil Krishnan, Founder and Creator of Out of Pocket, an online blog trying to make healthcare more accessible through humorous memes explaining the healthcare system. Nikhil and I talk about the logistics behind becoming a children’s book author, the biggest issues in healthcare today, using unprofessional writing styles to educate readers and not limiting your potential based on traditional career paths.Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Do...
2022-07-2625 min
The Deep End by ODFDriving Better Health with Roundtrip's Mark SwitajMark Switaj is co-founder & CEO of Roundtrip Health. Roundtrip is driving better health by providing a full suite of non emergent transportation options to patients in different care settings across the country. After exploring the India and health tech market in India last week, we wanted to revisit healthcare in the US. Today’s conversation is about social determinants of health. Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.Rou...
2022-07-0143 min
The External Medicine PodcastNikhil Krishnan: Healthtech Startups, Dank Memes, and Zero to One in HealthcareIn this conversation, Mitch Belkin and Daniel Belkin speak with Nikhil Krishnan about his healthcare newsletter (OutofPocket), why he’s optimistic about healthcare startups, and what he’s learned from investing in health tech companies. He talks about his preferred business models and gives advice to healthcare entrepreneurs on the zero-to-one phase of startups. They also discuss direct-to-physician and direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals, digital therapeutics, unbundling of the hospital, and touch on medical education.Who is Nikhil Krishnan?Nikhil Krishnan is a prolific blogger and masterful meme-maker who writes about healthcare. He’s the au...
2022-05-051h 02
Relentless Health ValueEP355: The 5 Business Models of Digital Health Companies, With Nikhil KrishnanMy guest in this healthcare podcast is Nikhil Krishnan, who is the founder of the Out-Of-Pocket newsletter. I was talking with Nikhil, and we identified—or, more accurately, he identified—five business models of digital health. What makes each model distinct is a few factors. If you weren't in the healthcare industry, you'd probably expect that I'm going to say that the biggest factor a business model must hinge on must have something to do with patient outcomes or care or something that has something to do with the hopes and lives of patients. Except no. Mostly, our models do n...
2022-02-1735 minThe Deep End by ODFOvercoming the Six Stages of Health Tech Grief with Nikhil KrishnanA reminder that we’re still looking for a researcher in residence. If you want to be a personal trainer of the mind for On Deck’s CEOs, head over to beondeck.com/researcher Nikhil Krishnan is the author of the Out of Pocket newsletter. Out-of-Pocket is making the business of healthcare easy to understand. Nikhil writes in plain English and compliments industry analysis with memes and humor.We haven’t done a true digital health episode yet, and Nikhil was the perfect person to provide us with an overview of the space.The fir...
2021-12-0853 min
Non-Technical30. Nikhil Krishnan (Founder, Out-Of-Pocket) is buying the homies pedicuresThis week, Alexis gets non-technical with Nikhil Krishnan, Founder of Out-Of-Pocket and self-proclaimed thinkboi. They talk about making (real) friends online, getting recognized as a shitposter, what AirBnb WON’T tell you (!), and the Bar Mitzvah-powered NYC custom sneaker economy.You can find Nikhil on Twitter at twitter.com/nikillinit and Alexis at twitter.com/yayalexisgay and instagram.com/yayalexisgay or twitter.com/NonTechnicalPod.This episode is sponsored by Privacy.com! Privacy.com lets you buy things online using virtual cards instead of using your real ones, so you can protect your identity and bank in...
2021-07-0748 min
Non-Technical30. Nikhil Krishnan (Founder, Out-Of-Pocket) is buying the homies pedicuresThis week, Alexis gets non-technical with Nikhil Krishnan, Founder of Out-Of-Pocket and self-proclaimed thinkboi. They talk about making (real) friends online, getting recognized as a shitposter, what AirBnb WON’T tell you (!), and the Bar Mitzvah-powered NYC custom sneaker economy.You can find Nikhil on Twitter at twitter.com/nikillinit and Alexis at twitter.com/yayalexisgay and instagram.com/yayalexisgay or twitter.com/NonTechnicalPod.This episode is sponsored by Privacy.com! Privacy.com lets you buy things online using virtual cards instead of using your real ones, so you can protect your identity and bank in...
2021-07-0748 min
The Pulse by Wharton Digital HealthConnor Hailey, Axle Health, on bridging the gap between virtual and physical careIn this episode of The Pulse Podcast, we interview Connor Hailey, CEO and Co-Founder of Axle Health, a software platform that enables any company to add in-home visits to their patient offering. We cover Connor’s penchant for startups and entrepreneurship, Axle Health’s founding story and early product journey and how they have scaled to thousands of in-home visits in just one year of launch.
Founded in 2020, Axle Health eliminates the complexity of delivering in-home care by offering a simple API that dispatches in-home professionals to provide clinical service offerings.
Axle Health recently announced thei...
2021-06-0726 min
The Pulse by Wharton Digital HealthConnor Hailey, Axle Health, bridging the gap between virtual and physical careIn this episode of The Pulse Podcast, we interview Connor Hailey, CEO and Co-Founder of Axle Health, a software platform that enables any company to add in-home visits to their patient offering. We cover Connor's penchant for startup and entrepreneurship, Axle Health's founding story and early product journey and how they have scaled to thousands of in-home visits in just one year of launch.
Founded in 2020, Axle Health eliminates the complexity of delivering in-home care by offering a simple API that dispatches in-home professionals to provide clinical service offerings.
Axle Health recently announced their seed fundraise led by Pear VC...
2021-06-0726 min
eComFuel PodcastThe Train Wreck That is U.S. Healthcare (And What to Do About It)Nikhil Krishnan is the founder and author of Out of Pocket Health, a newsletter featuring in-depth analysis and clever memes about the state of the healthcare system in the United States today. Listen in as we discuss the two biggest problems in the US system today, the dichotomy between the US being a leader in cutting edge technology while also having an issue with access to basic healthcare for many, and we dive into the options for small businesses who want to provide health insurance for their employees. You can find show notes and more information by...
2021-05-2158 min
Afrobility: Africa Tech and Business#29: bKash - How the FinTech payments platform became Bangladesh’s largest tech companyOverview: Today we’re going to talk about bKash - The largest Fintech player in Bangladesh. We start with some background on Bangladesh, discuss bKash’s founding, growth & impact on Bangladesh's economy. We also discuss what other emerging markets can learn from the bKash story & end with our overall outlook. This episode was co-hosted with Shammi Quddus & recorded on May 16, 2021.
Companies discussed: bKash, CellBazaar, Money in Motion, Grameenphone, Grameen Bank, BRAC, BRAC Bank, Safaricom (M-Pesa), Nagad, Telenor, Gates Foundation, IFC (World Bank) & Alibaba (Ant Financial)
Business concepts discussed: Agency bank...
2021-05-161h 55
Not Boring by Packy McCormickPrescription Drug Commercials: Why Are You the Way You Are?Welcome to the 1,912 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since last Thursday! Join 48,356 smart, curious folks by subscribing here:🎧 To get this essay straight in your ears: listen on Spotify or Apple PodcastsToday’s Not Boring is brought to you by … SecureframeSecureframe helps companies get enterprise ready by streamlining SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance. Secureframe allows companies to get compliant within weeks, rather than months and monitors 40+ services, including AWS, GCP, and Azure.Whether you’re an enterprise or a small startup, if you want to sell into enterprises, you’r...
2021-05-1314 min
"Age of Miracles"Prescription Drug Commercials: Why Are You the Way You Are?Prescription drug commercials are confusing. People eating ice cream while a voiceover talks about herpes. The Cialis couple in the bathtubs in a field (backstory revealed below). The long list of side effects that seem much worse than whatever disease the advertised drug claims to cure.
I asked Nikhil Krishnan, the man behind healthcare newsletter/community/novelty product shop Out-of-Pocket to explain why they are the way we are. He covers:
Why Do Pharma Companies Market to Consumers?
What Are the Rules Around Marketing to Consumers?
Pharma Marketing is Evolving
2021-05-1314 min
Talking HealthTech117 - Healthcare and nonsense - Nikhil Krishnan, Out of Pocket HealthWhat do you know about healthcare in the US?
Nikhil Krishnan is the founder and author of Out of Pocket Health, a newsletter featuring in-depth analysis and dank memes about what’s going on in the US healthcare system. His goal is to make healthcare easier to understand through his newsletter, children’s books, courses, and other exciting projects. He has previously worked in healthcare research at CB Insights and worked on the partnerships team at TrialSpark. Nikhil shares original opinions about healthcare in the US through his newsletter. He also uses Twitter to provide information to a following of almo...
2021-03-1436 min
Hear This IdeaNikhil Krishnan on the History and Future of Analytic Philosophy
Nikhil Krishnan is a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, and Fellow in Philosophy at Robinson College. He also writes on on history, literature, and culture. His first book, provisionally titled A Terribly Serious Adventure, tells the story of philosophy in Oxford from 1900 to 1960.
In this episode, we discussed two broad topics. In the first half, Nikhil relates some of this history of 20th century Oxford philosophy — and, by extension, the history of 'analytic' or 'linguistic' philosophy. In the latter half, we consider some questions about the present and future for academic ph...
2021-02-221h 33
a16z Livea16z Bio + Health #1: Things That Make You Go Hmmmm in Healthcare with Nikhil KrishnanThe first episode of the new a16z Bio Clubhouse Show "It's Time to Heal" on a16z Live. a16z General Partners Vineeta Agarwala, Jorge Conde, Vijay Pande, Julie Yoo, and a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen talk to guest Nihkil Krishnan about healthcare—the stuff we're all thinking but don't talk about.
2021-02-1657 min
Village Global PodcastHow To Build a Health Tech Company with Owen Willis and Nikhil KrishnanOwen Willis (@jowenwillis), lead of the On Deck Health Tech Fellowship, and Nikhil Krishnan (@nikillinit) of Out-of-Pocket, join Erik on this episode to discuss:- How health has evolved from a historical perspective.- How the environment has changed for companies in the space in the last decade.- Common misconceptions about building a company in healthcare.- Why in healthcare no one cares about reducing costs but instead only about increasing revenue.- The purpose of the fellowship and what you will get out of it....
2021-02-0926 min
Shot of Digital Health TherapyShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Carlos RodarteThings are just getting even more intense on #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. Jim and I had our first dog on our show making an appearance along with our awesome guest Carlos Rodarte and we chatted about:🐶 Patient Communities and the early days of PatientsLikeMe, LLC.🐶 Carlos's time in a suit at #JPM while he was at Health Catalyst🐶 Are #DigitalHealth companies doing enough tackling SDOH, diversity & inclusion?🐶 Carlos hinted at his new stealth-mode company hint: #DTx space🐶 oh and you have to watch all 3 of us doing pushups during the show and th...
2021-01-2748 min
Just Kidding with Jatin KhannaHealthcare is a Joke with Nikhil KrishnanHappy New Year! For my first episode of 2021, I talk with my old friend and self-proclaimed Healthcare Thinkboi, Nikhil Krishnan.
Nikhil's current main project is Out-of-Pocket, an endeavor to make the healthcare industry more accessible and understandable via funny newsletters, memes, a children's book, and even a playing card game. We talk about his pathway into healthcare as an outsider, and how he wanted to shake up the stiff, professional world of healthcare by bringing light and humor into it.
I've always admired Nikhil for his passion for side projects, which include a retired...
2021-01-131h 19Village Global PodcastThe State of Healthcare in 2020 with Nikhil KrishnanNikhil Krishnan (@nikillinit), founder of Out of Pocket, joins Erik on this episode to discuss:- How employer-based healthcare came to be and how it might change.- Comparisons of the US healthcare system to other countries.- His investing thesis in the space and areas he’s bullish on.- The dynamics of hospitals.- Thoughts on randomized controlled trials.- The excitement around digital therapeutics.- EMRs and their adoption by patients during COVID.- The state of telemedicine and what the fu...
2020-11-0859 min
The Redox Podcast#27 Nikita, Nikhil, and NikoNikita Singareddy and Nikhil Krishnan joined me on the show this week. You don’t often hear their last names as these two have rapidly earned their way into the ranks of first-name status in our industry. I wanted to have both of them on the show together as they have incredible rapport and both bring an absolutely refreshing and unique perspective on the industry, as younger analysts having graduated college in ‘16 and ’14.
Nikita (@singareddynm) is the creator of the Waiting Room blog. Her recent coverage of the new interoperability regulations is one of the best out there...
2020-09-2140 min
16 Minutes News by a16zVideogames as Medicines -- So What Is/Isn't a Digital Drug?The FDA just approved the first ever videogame that can now be legally marketed and prescribed as a medicine. It's a game called EndeavorRX (formerly known as Project EVO and developed by Akili Interactive based on technology licensed from a neuroscience lab at the University of California San Francisco) -- and is for 8-12 year olds with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD.So where does this fit in the broader category of "digital therapeutics", which have proven to be effective as therapeutics as in the case of the Diabetes Prevention Program administered by Omada Health (which...
2020-06-2119 min
The Substack PodcastSubstack Podcast #014: Healthcare with Nikhil KrishnanWe spoke with Nikhil Krishnan of Out of Pocket, a newsletter that’s tackling healthcare with an entertaining and approachable voice.While working on the healthcare research team at CB Insights, Nikhil started an industry newsletter that grew to 90,000 people. He then worked at a clinical trial company and now writes about healthcare full-time on his own newsletter, which he started earlier this year.We spoke to Nikhil about why he’s trying to make healthcare more interesting, his early paid experiments, and how to grow a thoughtful reader community, one person at a time.
2020-06-1152 min
Think Like an OwnerClearing Fog - Ep. 18My guest on this episode is a person who writes anonymously on Twitter under the pseudonym Clearing Fog. We connected a few months ago on Twitter and in this episode we talk about his career in investment banking and private equity, why he writes anonymously and his thoughts on writing publicly, and what he's thinking about next. I don't come across many people in traditional finance careers who have a blog and Twitter account and I thought it would be interesting to hear from someone who thinks a little differently. Please enjoy, I hope you like the...
2020-05-2739 min
Forward Thinking FoundersFI - Nikhil Krishnan (Get Real & Out Of Pocket) On The Rise of CreatorsAbout this episode: Nikhil is the founder of Get Real and Out Of Pocket. Get Real is s a social experiment in creating more genuine relationships. Out of pocket is a newsletter about healthcare, but funny.Listen to this episode if you:Want to learn about the story of how Nikhil quit his job to start these projectsAre wondering how comedy is working out for NikhilWonder why Nikhil chose Substack as his preferred newsletter platformWonder how he thinks about making moneyAre curious about the idea of subscription fatigue Want to take a dive into the future of t...
2020-04-3031 min
Avory - Markets and InvestingHealth + Tech + Covid with ex CBInsight/Uber Nikhil KrishnanTechnology can play a crucial role in health outcomes and is ripe for investment opportunities. Today I spoke with Nikhil Krishnan. He was the former senior analyst at CBInsights focused on digital health, biotechnology, and private market trends. We spoke about COVID-19 and how technology can help prevent and provide perspective to current and future health issues. We highlighted several companies and industries which could benefit longer-term as the current situation exposes critical vulnerabilities. ***This is not a recommendation for the purchase or sale of any companies mentioned.
2020-03-2928 minVillage Global PodcastThe State of Digital Health in 2019 with Malay Gandhi and Nikhil KrishnanMalay Gandhi (@malayhgandhi) of Evidation Health and Nikhil Krishnan (@nikillinit) of TrialSpark join Erik to talk all things digital health in 2019. Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg.
2019-12-101h 42
Creating LifeSuper Deluxe (First Reaction)This discussion gets into SPOILERS for SUPER DELUXE. You have been warned.
After making us wait for 8 years after his cult first feature AARANYA KAANDAM, Thiagarajan Kumararaja returns to the big screen with SUPER DELUXE. Starring Vijay Sethupathi, Samantha Akkineni, Fahadh Faasil, Mysskin, Ramya Krishnan, few Tamil films outside of the blockbuster mainstream have been as hotly anticipated and as immediately dissected online. And just with his first film, Kumararaja is not one to dance to Kollywood's tune.
Sindhu and Nikhil dig into SUPER DELUXE by first contextualizing...
2019-03-3129 min
Creating LifeSuper Deluxe (First Reaction)This discussion gets into SPOILERS for SUPER DELUXE. You have been warned.
After making us wait for 8 years after his cult first feature AARANYA KAANDAM, Thiagarajan Kumararaja returns to the big screen with SUPER DELUXE. Starring Vijay Sethupathi, Samantha Akkineni, Fahadh Faasil, Mysskin, Ramya Krishnan, few Tamil films outside of the blockbuster mainstream have been as hotly anticipated and as immediately dissected online. And just with his first film, Kumararaja is not one to dance to Kollywood's tune.
Sindhu and Nikhil dig into SUPER DELUXE by first contextualizing why t...
2019-03-3129 minVillage Global PodcastHealth Stories: The Intersection of Blockchain and Healthcare with Nikhil Krishnan and Nick SomanOn this episode of Health Stories, Erik is joined by Nikhil Krishnan (@nikillinit), of CB Insights and Nick Soman (@nicksoman), of Decent.Today they're talking about “the combination of two insanely complex topics.” They start out by discussing the potential applications of blockchain technology in the healthcare space and why it might not be ready for primetime just yet.They dive into some of the applications, including unique patient identifiers and why the lack of a system to transfer records between health providers results in a “ludicrously high number of medical errors.” They also talk about the fact...
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