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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

  • The Red Button
  • 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

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The Red Button

  • April 10, 2021April 10, 2021

I recently discovered a website called “Will You Press the Button?” where visitors are presented with a big red button. When pressed, a positive outcome – written by another user – would happen, accompanied by…

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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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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.

Market Street, San Francisco

Data-driven off a cliff: Rekindling a love for the unknown and immeasurable

  • January 26, 2019January 15, 2020

I wrote this piece on Medium on how obsessing over data in business might cause us to lose track of what’s really important.

Origami Christmas Tree

Don’t Validate Solutions, Disconfirm Needs

  • September 6, 2018January 15, 2020

This is a piece I wrote on Medium about designing things to actually solve problems.

The Best Day Ever and What it Taught Me

  • August 27, 2018September 16, 2018

It was a big day for us. Even seventeen years later, I can still remember walking up the “Alice in Wonderland”-like corridor, with the pattern of its wooden walls oriented downwards as the floor sloped…

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