Friendly discussions about life, business, engineering, and learning between Dima Malenko and Slava Rudnytskyi.
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Biweeklycast episodes:
July 25, 202441: Distractions 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube.
Dima and Slava talk about distractions, different ways to categorize them, and discuss how to prevent any kind of distraction from derailing an otherwise productive day.
- Follow-up on Brazilian education system: Feynman was not wrong
- Theme corner: Dima's year of next
- Dima's classification of distractions
- True distractions
- Digressions
- Diversions
- Slava's classification of task
- Apples
- Broccoli
- Eggs
- Office distractions vs. home distractions
- Ideas for distraction-less note taking?
- Focus modes on iPhone are great
- Dealing with numerous chat messages
- Challenges and mysteries can be particularly offensive digressions
- Reframing unsuccessful projects as learning exercises
- Project distractions and role distractions
...more July 15, 202440: Are LLMs overhyped? 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube.
Dima and Slava discuss their experiences with LLMs, Slava's recent forays into trainings on using AI technologies, and prophecies about the future of AI, some of which were probably generated with the help of AI.
- Theme corner: Slava's hierarchy of themes
- AI sells. At least currently
- Large Language Model Statistics And Numbers (2024)
- Slava's AI ghost writer
- What are the use case where GenAI is most helpful?
- Are junior developers threatened by current generation of AI tools?
- Impact of technology on the field of civil engineering
- "Everything is better with Bluetooth"
- Bill Gates: "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
- Importance of feedback function
"Critical thinking skills are going to continue to be critical"
...more July 02, 202439: Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube
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
- Feynman's foray into art and connecting hard science and humanities was especially interesting for Dima
- Slava was moved by Feynman's success as a musician
- Open mindset: "Make yourself available to interesting opportunities"
- Stories about "bar adventures" sound cringy in 2024
- Different attitude towards authorities in professional setting (there are no authorities) and amateur exercises (learning from those who had success)
- Trying different things and learning from them is really important
- The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The Power Broker
- Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
- Cargo cult
...more June 24, 202438: Faster and better 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube
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
- Book Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
- Dima's idea of "everything can be done in two weeks"
- Are fast iterations always possible?
- Is moving fast only about iterations?
- Feedback function is important for learning
- Biweekly 36: How Big Things Get Done
- Deliberate practice (in Wikipedia)
...more May 31, 202437: STRATsphere Talks 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube
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
- The 99% Invisible Power Broker Book Club
- STRATsphere Talks Podcast
- Differences between ongoing podcasts, like Biweekly, and limited series
- "Continuity" in podcasts
- Production: how the sausage is made
- Software for recording
- Riverside
- Audio Hijack
- Dynamics of recording in studio face-to-face and remotely
- Why YouTube is important for podcasts
- Feedback is sooo important for podcasters
- Hosting a solo podcast vs co-hosting
...more March 15, 202436: How Big Things Get Done Dima and Slava read the book about how big things get done and discuss where they agree and disagree with the author and what they've learned from the book and from talking about it.
- Discombobulation continues: Discombobulated by Eminem
- Dima's struggles with ultra fine Pilot G-2 pens
- How Big Things Get Done
- Challenges with examples for something as multi-faceted as big projects
- Understanding the true goal of the project is critically important for the success of the project
- Ides of "Jobs To Be Done" – check this article
- Dima's classification of projects into "closed" and "open" projects
- Amager Bakke – waste-to-energy power plant which is also an artificial ski slope
- It is all about mindset
...more February 19, 202435: Backburner projects 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube.
Dima contemplates getting work done on projects that are not immediate top priority and Slava points out that there is nothing wrong with pushing, as long as it is done in a considerate way.
- Dima's theme corner
- Difficult inroads into meditation with Headspace
- Free-form theme journaling
- Can projects really be important but not urgent?
- Enshittification of the Internet
- Struggles of leading a second priority project
- Reverse psychology
- "More power too people! But not too much..."
- Bugging people in a considerate way, with care
- Pushing and pulling strategies for moving projects forward
- Frequent releases to keep people engaged
Next episode: book club discussion of "How Big Things Get Done"
...more February 05, 202434: Ideal Weeks 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
- Simple 2024 Bullet Journal Setup
- Some articles from the Internet about ideal weeks
- How designing your ideal week can increase your productivity (and sanity)
- How to Better Control Your Time by Designing Your Ideal Week
- Planning your ideal week
- Is something like "ideal" an acceptable terminology
- Planning for productive weeks
- Dealing with unplanned tasks and interruptions
- Weaving long-term thinking into short-term planning
- Meetings and no meetings days
- Detailed calendar planning: does it work?
- Planning multi-step activities for time efficiency
...more January 03, 202433: Themes 2024 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube.
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
- The Theme System
- Your Theme by CGP Grey
- Looking back at 2023 themes and laying out themes for 2024
- Themes and journaling
- Seasonal and monthly themes
- Resting meaningfully and intentionally
- Visual reminders for themes
...more December 26, 202332: We Are Bob 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube
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
- Challenges of human replication, artificial intelligence, self-identification
- Slava read all the books set in the Bobiverse and Dima tries to goes where the author takes the story
- "Fuzzy Nation" by John Scalzi on GoodReads
...more
FAQs about Biweeklycast:
How many episodes does Biweeklycast have?
The podcast currently has 345 episodes available.