📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/isVefNnhijIDima and Slava have read and now discuss "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!", a memoir by the renowned theoretical physicist Richard Feynman.* Both Dima and Slava were impressed by style that was simple and easy going* How true is the story is the story about Brazilian educational system…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/tpi7AhEabUY)Dima and Slava discuss whether focusing on working faster can translate into improvements in the quality of the produced results and why or why not this may be the case.* Podcast Focused (https://www.relay.fm/focused)* Book "Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaki…

Slava started a new podcast called STRATsphere Talks about all things strategizing. In this episode Dima and Slava discuss thinking behind this new endeavor and learning after launching first episodes of the new podcast.* Follow-up * The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Broker) * The 99% I…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/DyJZfE-1RDA).Slava wonders about planning ideal weeks and quizzes Dima about his approaches to balancing long-term and short-term and dealing with the unplanned.* Discombobulation continues* Slava's theme corner* Some Bullet Journal videos * Minimal Bullet Journal Setup (https://www.youtube.com/watc…

📺 Watch [this episode on YouTube](https://youtu.be/F39xfuzM6Tw)In the last episode recorded in 2023 Dima and Slava discuss their yearly themes and talk talk what is in cards for them in 2024.* Biweekly 9: Themes. 2023 Edition (https://biweeklycast.com/season-two/9)* The Theme System (https://www.themesystem.com/)* Your Theme (https://www.youtube.co…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/x724EDJjBbgIn this unusual book club episode Dima and Slava depart from their usual business literature repertoire and discuss sci-fi novel "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)".* Follow up * Dima is fascinated with the word "discombobulated" * Challenges of taking notes while on the run* "We Are Legion (We …

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DkU497iK3dMDima describes his adventures into Zettelkasten and together with Slava they discuss ins and outs of note taking.* Follow-up * Rely on team to solve teamwork challenges* Zettelkasten Method (https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/#the-introduction-to-the-zettelkasten-method)* Niklas Luhma…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sZNscsoJma0Slava talks about the experience he had facilitating co-creation of L&D course and together with Dima they brainstorm ideas for overcoming challenges Slava encountered.* Dima once again tried to pronounce "Birmingham" correctly* Baader-Meinhof corner: word "illustrious" (https://www.merri…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4_8Db7zVHGYDima and Slava sit with Viktoria Pysarenko to talk about Vita's experience of attending a transformative experience by Tony Robbins, general idea of such motivational events, and the lessons they teach us.* Vita's Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/victoria_pysarenko_vbs/)* What is Unle…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cT9iDgtfknADima and Slava set out to discuss transparency as a potential solution to different challenges, but spend most of the time talking about compensation transparency and its challenges and benefits.* Follow-up: do managers overdo it out of desire for everything to go smoothly?* Focused #185:…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/l5YKGj6QTlADima and Slava sit down to answer questions kindly crafted by ChatGPT and curated by Slava to debug his challenge of managing five projects of different shape and form.* According to PMBOK (https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/understanding-difference-programs-versus-projects-6896) a proj…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Cw0wQFgBiHgDima and Slava sit with Anna Krasilnik to talk about the method of nonviolent communication, its applicability to the real-world professional situations, and seemingly sudden popularity of NVC in some circles.* aitiology, or etiology (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etiology)* …

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lIWHGWhYq1sDima and Slava read the book "The Courage To Be Disliked" and discuss individual psychology and its premises, debate to apply those to "real" life, and spot some contradictions on guidelines laid out by the authors. * The Courage To Be Disliked (https://www.japansociety.org.uk/review?revi…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/29AhIUTvv3YDima brings up two topic and together with Slava they discuss how one can help to keep meetings on track as a participant and navigate complexities of working on long-term projects.* "If I skip a day I never skip the next one. And I don't try to make up for the skipped day."* Safety poste…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/q-uwt2NsTbw.Dima and Slava follow up on the topic in the previous episode and talk about joy of missing out, slowing down, and generally changing the ways we lead our lives.* Biweeklycast #21 with Yulia Kudina "Friends and Friendship" (https://biweeklycast.com/season-two/21)* JOMO: The Joy of Missin…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MYIfV4N67skDima and Slava host Karyna Koreiba (https://www.instagram.com/koreiba/) and they talk about the ways people become friends, power of small groups, and mock articles that call on us to be open.* Donald Rumsfeld's phrase "There are unknown unknowns"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_u…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/rqMshCEMIuQ)In this book club episode Slava falls victim to marketing, but Dima reassures him (and everyone else) that there is a lot to be learned even when you disagree with what you are reading.* Frequency illusion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion) (also known as Baader–Meinhof p…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/LziXVfbjYPM)Dima explores an idea of to-don't list for make room for new tasks and responsibilities and Slava challenges this entire concept and thinks of more productive alternatives.* Brief follow up on networking: apps with geo-location features like Strava (https://www.strava.com/) can help find…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/LziXVfbjYPM)Dima and Slava discuss networking, online and offline, share their experiences and tips, and slightly ridicule an article about remote networking.* WHO: COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency (https://www.who.int/news/item/05-05-2023-statement-on-the-fifteenth-meeting-of-the-…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SiQdNaYrOQ0Dima and Slava welcome as a guest Viacheslav Rudenko and talk about resilience, what it means to them, and how they are trying to build it as a muscle."Oceanman is like triathlon but without cycling and running"* Frequency illusion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion) (also …

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9gIPCgcykEsDima and Slava talk about effective communication in teams, how bad jargon really is, and what to do with acronyms. PSA: this episode contains a lot of TLAs.* What do we mean by "effective communication"? Precise and uses least possible time to reach mutual understanding"Communicating req…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zIGMc1NLHSgDima and Slava discuss corporate culture, debate if it can be built, and, if so what are the challenges and the tools can help.* Stanley Tucci "Taste: My Life Through Food" (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taste-Sunday-Bestseller-Stanley-Tucci/dp/0241501008)* What it is "corporate culture"?* The…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/iXqDNZWJD2c)Dima and Slava talk to Vasyl, once CEO of ProZorro, about automation of the government and government services, dynamics of state-owned enterprises and getting back to "regular" business.* ProZorro (https://prozorro.gov.ua/en) – public procurement service used by Ukrainian government* St…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qWJRbR68vkUDima and Slava read the "Hyperfocus" by Chris Bailey and discuss the ideas and lessons they drew from the book.* "Hyperfocus" (https://chrisbailey.com/hyperfocus/) by Chris Bailey* Slava has really put ideas from the book to work for him* Is the book over-indexing on email?* How is this b…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bExjWqJ4XWQDima brings up the challenges of tactical planning, Slava introduces the concept of "digital travel time" and both of them try to apply the GTD 2-minute rule to examples from an article.* Funny coincidences and the frequency illusion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion) (als…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube(https://youtu.be/eZEtdefAPA0) Slava came across a peculiar workplace learning trends report and together with Dima they dissect the elusive trends highlighted there and discuss possible motivations and challenges of producing reports on industry landscape.* "Ideal outcome" is the definition of done for a theme* Defin…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/L-P71qki3U8) Dima and Slava discuss their yearly themes for 2023 and how they plan to go about working on them.* Cortex (https://www.relay.fm/cortex) podcast* The Theme System (https://www.themesystem.com/)* Can one fail their theme?* Lighthouse Planning (https://www.lifejunctions.com/lighthouse/)* …

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/6YlLkmYB2ik)Slava and Dima welcome Yulia Kudina and together they try to figure out what learning is, how they do that, and unexpected things they learned recently.* Yulia Kudina (https://www.instagram.com/yk.career/)* Подкаст Льоші і Юлі (https://podcasts.apple.com/cy/podcast/%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/k1xrwaKxV-A)Dima and Slava talk about book "Tell to Win" by Peter Guber and tell their own stories about the role storytelling plays in their lives.* "Tell to Win" (https://www.peterguber.com/leadership/telltowin/) by Peter Guber* Structured decision making for choosing a school* Chapters in the aud…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/xXDDl8cU3_0)Dima and Slava discuss "structured decision making" and challenges and pitfalls of decision making processes often employed in business setting.* Slava attended another Aspen seminar and it transformed him* Structured decision making for choosing the best options* Decision Matrix (https:…

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/PNqBGGXxZVo)Dima and Slava look for fulfillment in work and discuss how our approaches for setting goals may be preventing us from feeling happy. * José Ortega y Gasset (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortega_y_Gasset) (1883-1955) – a spanish philosopher* "The Revolt of the Masses" (https://…

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/a6bIJMp_vYw.Dima and Slava sit with Andrii Suslenko, a journalist and a business-coach, to talk about coaching, mentorship, consulting, and differences and overlaps between those.* Our guest – Andrii Suslenko (https://suslenko.live/)* Podcast "How you think" (https://linktr.ee/how.you.think)* Who is a…

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/408eQgRxyPk.Dima and Slava read and discuss book "Pitch Anything" by Oren Klaff and evaluate ideas of frame control, dominance, and eradicating neediness against their own experience.* Podcasts in school education in the UK* Pitch Anything (https://www.amazon.com/Pitch-Anything-Innovative-Presenting-P…

Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/3B6sNvVmjcw).Dima is concerned with the fate of expertise and how easy experts have it now, and together with Slava they look experts in the workplace and how they mess up code reviews.* The Death of Expertise (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Expertise-Campaign-Established-Knowledge/dp/0190865970), the…

Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/olwJwDFImC4).Slava wonders one can learn to plan for longer term and together with Dima they discuss different approaches to planning and when and why they are effective.* How Dima and Slava came together to start a podcast six years ago and what changed since then* Planning approaches * SMART vs OKRs…

Этот выпуск в YouTube: https://youtu.be/o0y4iPGYe6sДима и Вячеслав проводят ретроспективу первого сезона Biweekly и делятся планами на свое подкастерское будущее.* Первый эпизод Biweekly вышел 24 февраля 2016 года (https://sonar.one/biweekly/1)* Другиe Димины подкасты * Доброе утро, Индия! (https://sonar.one/good-morning-india) * Not Invented Here …

📺 Этот выпуск в YouTube: https://youtu.be/nGm49S61f94Дима и Вячеслав обсуждают философию постмодернизма и попеременно примеряют шапки постмодернистов, пытаясь отстоять их позиции друг перед другом.* Как ведущие понимают "постмодернизм"?* Определение "постмодернизма" (https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy) в энциклопедии Britanni…

📺 Этот выпуск в YouTube: https://youtu.be/361nMhBp2_0Дима и Вячеслав разбирают рабочий кейс и нащупывают грань между эффективным управлением и микроменеджментом.* Статья Жени Выборова My Framework for making big decisions (https://yourway.substack.com/p/my-framework-for-making-big-decisions)* Славин кейс: баланс между эффективным менеджментом и бюр…

📺 Этот выпуск в YouTube (https://youtu.be/b4egneIjIhc)Дима и Вячеслав обсуждают книгу Tribal Leadership (https://www.triballeadership.net/) и примеряют модель лидерства, которую она предлагает, на свой опыт. * График выхода подкаста все больше соответствует названию* Оценка идеи может существенно отличаться от оценки инструкции по ее реализации* Об…

📺 Этот выпуск в YouTube (https://youtu.be/pPFVZUbWefA)Дима и Вячеслав обсуждают Untools (https://untools.co/) – набор инструментов для более эффективного решения проблем и принятия решений и оценивают полезность этих инструментов.* "Everyone at company thanks you" и другие примеры персонализации* Пирамида Минто* Принцип MECE (https://en.wikipedia.o…

📺 Этот выпуск в YouTube: https://youtu.be/VrCnO0WCQfsВячеслав проверяет Димину позицию, используя статьи о функциях лидера в кризисной ситуации. * Договора между командами в строительстве систем* Servant leadership: why being a servant leader is worth the work (https://nesslabs.com/servant-leadership)* Как быть "служащим лидером"* Работает ли serva…

📺 Этот выпуск в YouTube: https://youtu.be/yhjdyMCn8PgДима и Вячеслав обсуждают тексты из Аспен-читанки о новом общественном договоре.* История про Queen Jubilee street party* Договір гідності заради сталого розвитку (https://zbruc.eu/node/33017)* Что такое "устойчивое развитие"?* Что такое "общественный договор"? Достаточно ли просто договориться?*…

📺 Этот выпуск в YouTube: https://youtu.be/jYkx2ouUIaIДима и Вячеслав обсуждают статью, в которой побережья делят на восточное и западное, а людей – на добрых и вежливых.* Снова про помощь большим фондам и небольшим инициативам* Война как великий обесцениватель* Статья "Are you nice or kind?" (https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/42-are-you-nice-or-ki…

📺 Этот выпуск в YouTube: https://youtu.be/RpnoE8YbjosДима и Вячеслав обсуждают стыд, вину, ответственность и калейдоскоп эмоций и чувств с ними связанных.* Спасибо за идеи для новых тем!* Как будет "сурджик" по-английски?* Обсуждение "Humankind: A Hopeful History" (https://www.amazon.com/Humankind-Hopeful-History-Rutger-Bregman/dp/1549159860) в Biw…

📺 Этот выпуск в YouTube: https://youtu.be/V4_9OLB1--EДима и Вячеслав обсуждают, как откуда они черпают информацию о происходящем и что делают, чтобы от этой информации не поехать кукухой.* Что и как мы читали с начала войны и что мы читаем сейчас * Українська правда (https://www.pravda.com.ua/) * Суспільне (https://suspilne.media/) * The Guardian (…

Этот выпуск в YouTube: https://youtu.be/K5Eu2FXl9XwДима и Вячеслав обсуждают идею проекта с изучением уроков лидерства в Украине и примеры такого лидерства.* Фидбек и супервизия идеи проекта "Кампус" – извлечение опыта лидерства из того, как (само)организутется Украина перед лицом врага* Примеры самоорганизации и лидерства, с которыми Дима и Слава …

📺 Этот выпуск в YouTube: https://youtu.be/_pAIwJVZlvUДима и Вячеслав пробуют вернуться к регулярному подкастингу и начинают с вопроса "как ты?".Af Sonar.1

📺 Этот выпуск в YouTube (https://youtu.be/tWnUrYRQoho)Дима и Вячеслав обсуждают The Manager's Handbook и пытаются разобраться, на кого нацелена эта книга и какую пользу из нее можно извлечь.* Ответ на комментарий: зачем "аутстафферам" с собственными ноутбуками слушать про видения и стратегии?* The Manager's Handbook (https://themanagershandbook.com…

📺 Этот выпуск в YouTube (https://youtu.be/vxBnM_QE8U4)Вячеслав пережил очередной сезон стратегических сессий, и они с Димой обсуждают, как и зачем это работает, и пытаются пристроить Славу на должность Chief Strategy Officer.* Стратсессия стратсессии рознь* Красные директора (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_…

📺 Этот выпуск в YouTube: https://youtu.be/kKac73EUQQAДима и Вячеслав обсуждают Marshmallow Challenge и статистические наблюдения вокруг этого эксперимента, а также делятся своими мыслями и опытом по использованию игр в командном строительстве.* Marshmallow challenge (https://youtu.be/H0_yKBitO8M)* Статистика штука лукавая, но инженеры все равно мол…