Biweeklycast

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Friendly discussions about life, business, engineering, and learning between Dima Malenko and Slava Rudnytskyi.

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Biweeklycast episodes:

June 24, 202438: Faster and better
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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)
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48min
May 31, 202437: STRATsphere Talks
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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
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53min
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
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1h 8min
February 19, 202435: Backburner projects
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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"
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54min
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
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1h 7min
January 03, 202433: Themes 2024
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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
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1h 3min
December 26, 202332: We Are Bob
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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
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50min
December 06, 202331: Zettelkasten Method
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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

Niklas Luhmann published over 70 books and nearly 400 scholarly articles on variety of subjects

Videos about Zettelkasten, Obsidian, and smart notes
Zettelkasten Obsidian Workflow

How to take smart notes

Slava uses Sidekick Notepad

Note taking software
Logseq

Obsidian

Notion

Book How to Take Smart Notes

Atomic note – a note that represents exactly one idea

Literature and fleeting notes

Biweekly 28: No Rules Rules

Power of Zettelkasten is in connecting the notes

Can the time invested into organization of the notes really pay off?

What do organization of photos and notes have in common?
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1h 6min
November 27, 202330: Co-creation
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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"

L&D Mastery course

Collective creativity

Points series of events was creative

3 ways a problem and a team shape one another
Assemble a team and let it find the best problem to solve

Define a problem and then put together the best team that can solve

Something in between

Slava's MMFD to driving co-creation in a diverse team
Motivation

Meetings

Freedom

Deadlines

Dima's thought pitfalls to avoid
Do not stick to original plan (or idea) to religiously

When evolution of the project runs into a dead end, don't be afraid to take a step or two back

Mistakes Slava made in the process
Over-managing the meetings not giving enough room to meaningful discussions

Not creating convenient space for collaboration

Lack of regular 1:1s

Allow the team to self-organize!

How to get the team to engage and care about the whole project

Tuckman's stages of group development: forming–storming–norming–performing

Developers, developers, developers!

How to keep interest in the project going after the initial boost of enthusiasm?

Next project: centralized or de-centralized?
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1h 7min
November 08, 202329: Unleashing The Power
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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

What is Unleash the Power Within?

Is this a training? Is this an even? Is this a "happening"?

If Tony Robbins is a coach, how does coaching work with 12,000 people

Physical activities to get the body and the mind in the desired state

Effect of the crowd in the experience

What people come for knowledge or emotional boost?

The idea of communal experiences

Things in common between Tony Robbins trainings, big concerts, and going to stadium for a football game

David A. Sinclair, who researches aging

Is it worth to attend such a training online?
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1h 7min

FAQs about Biweeklycast:

How many episodes does Biweeklycast have?

The podcast currently has 372 episodes available.