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Bryan Sim, Ph.D

Bryan Sim, Ph.D

I work on Product at Owler Inc.

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  • A Squier HM Bass
  • Playing a Fender Custom Shop Strat

Articles by Bryan

I Tried to Write a Gypsy Jazz Love Song

  • August 24, 2018

Ever since learning how to play “la pompe“, the signature rhythmic guitar style of gypsy jazz, I’ve wanted to write a song in that style. At the risk of sounding super nerdy, I was inspired…

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The Point of Everything

  • August 22, 2018August 23, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, I took some time off work to reflect on what I was trying to accomplish in my life. It very quickly dawned on me that I had basically “ghosted” through…

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Why I Hate Yams (and Other Sweet Tubers)

  • August 19, 2018August 19, 2018

When I was growing up, I spent my afternoons after school at my maternal grandparents’ apartment, waiting for my parents to come home. Being the eldest grandson in the family, my grandmother would dote on…

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Falling Easy

  • August 18, 2018August 23, 2018

I wrote this song about overcoming the uncertainty and nostalgia that comes with being itinerant. In case you were curious as to what the phoenix guitar sounds like, I play it at the end. Here’s a…

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A Real Fender Firebird

  • August 16, 2018

Of all the mythical creatures I don’t believe in, the phoenix is my favorite. Throughout my life, I’ve learned and grown the most following abject failure (usually after I’d said to myself “I got this,…

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On Forgetting and Happiness

  • August 14, 2018August 14, 2018

I can barely remember the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in my life. I was 15 or 16, and my family and I were in Japan. My dad’s company had paid to send his entire…

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Book Review: Disrupted

  • August 13, 2018August 14, 2018

I’m super late to the party, but after a year in the tech world, it’s time for me to review one of my favorite books: Dan Lyon’s Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-up Bubble. By way…

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A Weird Time to Waltz

  • August 12, 2018August 12, 2018

This is a song I’ve been wanting to write for a while now. I titled it “A Weird Time to Waltz” because of the 7/4 (7 beats to a bar) sections in the song, and I…

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A 1987 Japanese-made Squier Stratocaster

  • August 10, 2018

The electric guitar was invented in 1931 by George Beauchamp. Since then, thousands of iterations have appeared, with my favorite being the rocket-shaped Stratocaster. Produced by Fender since 1954, the Stratocaster has an illustrious history:…

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Who’s on your committee?

  • August 9, 2018August 9, 2018

As I start my journey into my thirties, I thought it would be a good time to take stock and think about who I want to be when I “grow up”. The first ten years…

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