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📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ylXk57w5dXo Dima and Slava discuss a report from a foresight exercise by Aspen Digital about second and third order effect of AI, criticize the output, and agree with demise of practical skills driven by different kinds of automation. - Second and Third Order Effects of A.I. (https://www.aspendigital.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Aspen-Digital_Se...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/isVefNnhijI Dima 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? Seems legit * Biweekly #16: Culture Map (htt...

📺 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 Artmaking" (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Fear-Observa...

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% Invisible Power Broker Book Club (https://99percen...

📺 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/watch?v=ZK5VUuxGYr0) * Simple 2024 Bullet Journal...

📺 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.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE) by CGP Grey * Looking...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/x724EDJjBbg In 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 Are Bob)" on GoodReads (https://www.goodreads....

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DkU497iK3dM Dima 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 Luhmann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhm...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sZNscsoJma0 Slava 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.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illustrious) * L&D M...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4_8Db7zVHGY Dima 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 Unleash the Power Within? (https://www.tonyrobbins...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cT9iDgtfknA Dima 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: How to Be Miserable (https://www.relay.fm/foc...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/l5YKGj6QTlA Dima 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 project is “a temporary endeavor undertaken to crea...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Cw0wQFgBiHg Dima 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) * Frequency illusion (https://en.wikipedia.org/w...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lIWHGWhYq1s Dima 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?review=595) by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga * In...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/29AhIUTvv3Y Dima 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 posters for London Tube: old (https://site.laboca.c...

📺 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 Missing Out (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MYIfV4N67sk Dima 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_unknown_unknowns) * Book "Crossing the Chasm" wa...

📺 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 phenomenon) * More about to-don’t lists YANSS 26...

📺 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 people with similar interest in real life * Th...

📺 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-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergen...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SiQdNaYrOQ0 Dima 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 known as Baader–Meinhof phenomenon) * Resilien...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9gIPCgcykEs Dima 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 requires some practice, but just communicating is...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zIGMc1NLHSg Dima 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 Leader’s Guide to Corporate Culture (https:/...

📺 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 * State in a smartphone * Starting from zero allow...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qWJRbR68vkU Dima 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 book different from "Deep Work" (https://www....