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Bryan Sim, Ph.D

Bryan Sim, Ph.D

I work on Product at Owler Inc.

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Recent Posts

  • Covering my most played song in 2020 (Bad Ideas – Tessa Violet)
  • Littleroot Town – Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
  • National Park Theme – Pokémon Gold/Silver
  • A letter to my future self
  • kopi.click

Articles by Bryan

Covering my most played song in 2020 (Bad Ideas – Tessa Violet)

  • February 24, 2021February 24, 2021

I sometimes wonder why songs get stuck in our heads. In the case of “Bad Ideas”, I think what’s really interesting is how the chord progression in the song (C-B/C-Am-G-F-Em-Dm-G), which highlights the descending diatonic…

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Littleroot Town – Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald

  • December 15, 2020December 15, 2020

I’ve never really thought about how video game music is composed, but recently, I’ve been learning common chord progressions in jazz/fusion/RnB, and have started noticing them in lots of different places. In the theme from…

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National Park Theme – Pokémon Gold/Silver

  • November 19, 2020November 19, 2020

When I was 11 or 12, I inadvertently bought a pirated version of Pokémon Gold that didn’t have a battery in it, rendering the in-game clock inoperable. After a short couple of decades later, I’ve…

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A letter to my future self

  • October 30, 2020October 30, 2020

Dear Friend, I hope things are better in the future than they are right now. I hope that you’re able to look back at this point in time, laugh about how crazy everything was, and…

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kopi.click

  • September 26, 2020October 7, 2020

When we were both 16, my best friend had an early smartphone – one of the first that made use of a stylus. One day, as a group of us were hanging out, he reached…

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Day #28543 of staying home – Untethered

  • September 15, 2020September 15, 2020

While waiting out the pandemic, I’ve been working on my improvisation/composition skills. Here’s something I came up with in about an hour.

My top 5 books of 2019

  • December 25, 2019September 15, 2020

In 2019, one of my goals was to read 52 books – one for every week. Thankfully, I had many friends with great tastes in short books, so I powered through the year with no…

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Owler’s new News Feed

  • October 1, 2019January 15, 2020

Over the last few months, we’ve been working on a better way to get the business news that we curate from thousands of sources to our users.

The pitfalls of automating your vacuum cleaner

  • June 11, 2019June 11, 2019

I wrote this while thinking about automation after the demise of my robovac.

The bets we make

  • May 31, 2019January 15, 2020

This is a piece I wrote about dealing with rejection/rejecting.

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