Friendly discussions about life, business, engineering, and learning between Dima Malenko and Slava Rudnytskyi.
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November 14, 202448: Founder Mode 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube.
Dima and Slava discuss "Founder Mode", an essay by Paul Graham about differences between more founders and hired managers in tech companies.
- Founder Mode
- Format of an essay
- What is special about founders?
- Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: ‘I Never Called it Founder Mode’
"An argument can be perfectly biased in two different ways."
- Perils of delegation: where to dive deep and where to step away
- Is "manager mode" about driving towards short-term objectives and "founder mode" about executing on a long-term vision?
"Care about what you do."
...more October 28, 202447: Can you be more specific? 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube.
Dima shares his longing for the necessary details and the right level of abstraction, while Slava tries to persuade him that all the details aren't always necessary and everything can be fine anyway.
- Dima's knowing-doing gap in working on the theme
- Is lack of specificity really a problem and when?
- Level of details is what matters, but are all the details always necessary?
- Understanding of the details shows even an high level of abstraction
- Details vs trust
...more October 07, 202446: Creative Procrastination 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube.
From the discussion it is not entirely clear if Dima and Slava talk about procrastination that gets in the way of them accomplishing creative endeavours or all the creative they find to postpone working on hard and important things.
- Dima did a bit of research on "Lord of the Rings" and J. R. R. Tolkien and he came to appreciate the amount of effort and rigor that went into creation of that fantasy universe
- Dima also read "Some Desperate Glory"Â by Emily Tesh, the novel that won the Hugo Award in 2024, and found it a better story, but also not beyond reproach
- Slava's fall of nucleus
- Cognitive distortions that lead to procrastination and passive and active procrastinators
- Writing is (un?)surprisingly challenging for everyone
- Is procrastination are result of our mismatched expectations?
- How does one recognize they are procrastinating?
- Common theme for how procrastination creeps in: big ambiguous task is replaced with a small and easy win
- Self-help and social methods for getting oneself out of the procrastination trap
- Reassertion using positive feedback on your prior work
- Create a crystallization point to start working on a big daunting tasks
...more September 13, 202445: Starter Villain 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube.
Dima and Slava play literary critics and discuss "Starter Villain" – a book by John Scalzi.
- Biweekly 32: We Are Bob
- All Biweekly bookclub episodes on the site and on YouTube
- Other books by John Scalzi
- Lock In series: Lock In and Head On
- Fuzzy Nation
- The Kaiju Preservation Society
- Other books Dima and Slava enjoyed
- Permutation City by Greg Egan
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
...more September 02, 202444: Having Fun 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube.
Dima and Slava discuss different facets of having fun, discover the golden pentagon of productive state of mind, and nearly form a consultancy to preach that around the world.
- Theme's corner: times flies
- Is "leisure" the same as "rest"?
- Is having fun while working on something important to achieve great results?
- Slava: "Having fun is overrated." Internet: Having Fun Won’t Make You Happy
- Create space for having fun however you do that
- Here's why you should make a habit of having more fun
- How to Have Fun: 19 Ways to Enjoy Yourself & Think Positive
- Can you put having fun on the calendar?
- Some things only happen when you plan for them
- Axes of the "golden" pentagon of productivity
- Having fun – being bored
- Tensed – relaxed
- Focused – distracted
- Stressed – not stressed
- Pleasant – unpleasant
- Balance is always(?) the key
- How important is "disconnecting" to being able to "have fun"?
...more August 20, 202443: EdTech Club Slava shares his latest idea and initiative to create a space for EdTech companies to talk and work together on socially important projects. Dima, naturally, gets to ask questions to test the thinking.
...more August 08, 202442: How Minds Change 📺 Watch this episode on YouTube.
Dima and Slava have read "How Minds Change" by David McRaney and discuss how relatively diverse set of stories come (or do not come) together to give a practical framework for influencing others.
- Follow-up: do not sabotage your future self!
- A book or a collection of stories?
- Deep canvassing method appears to have connections to best practices in business communication
- We do not experience reality directly – our constructs reality for us
- Assimilation and accommodation of new infromation
- Peer pressure and our tribal ancestry
- Are face-to-face communities stronger than purely online communities?
- Is arguing an integral part of human nature?
- Psychology research and the not uncommon fakery of communication
- Problem with popular science: more popular than science
- Honest persuasion is a two-way street: both minds are likely to be influenced
...more 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
FAQs about Biweeklycast:
How many episodes does Biweeklycast have?
The podcast currently has 352 episodes available.