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:

May 12, 202318: Remote Networking
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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

"Networking situation" after moving to London

Professional networking vs personal branding

Extreme scales of networking: broadcasting and one-to-one

Aspen Ukraine 2020 Reunion in Virbela

Remote Networking: 15 Ways to Connect When You’re Stuck at Home

Personal brand as a beacon for potential connections

Personal brans we like
Yulia Kudina

Anna Golovchenko

Networking at online events: be a speaker

Communities, including online communities, are great finding meaningful relationships

The Breakfast app

Slava's method of expanding professional network via reachouts

Spectrum of interaction bandwidth on online communication

People First Club

Book "Never Eat Alone"
"Best investment of time to learn networking is networking."
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1h 1min
May 02, 202317: Resilience and support
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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 (also known as Baader–Meinhof phenomenon)

Resilience – pillar for hard times
"The worst things thought could happen are not as bad as things actually happening now."
Happiness challenge

The Wheel of Life

Peer pressure and peer support

Support and trust are two-way street
"Sometimes you do not want reflection. Sometimes you want a kind person by your side."
When comes to support community can be both a hero and a villain

Smalltalk, oversharing, and manipulation
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57min
April 17, 202316: Culture Map
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Dima and Slava have read "The Culture Map" by Erin Meyer and discuss what they think of and how they to dimensions of communication offered by the book.
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"The Culture Map" by Erin Meyer

Dima's distinction between "complimentary" and "contradictory" book

Book builds on experience rather that compiles scientific research. This, probably, makes it more honest

One sentence summary: idea of cultural dimensions is useful and, as often, everything is relative

Negative feedback, as narrower aspect of communication, makes a lot sense as a dimension that is important in professional collaboration

Paradox of US communication culture: low-context communication, but indirect negative feedback

Pay attention to upgraders and downgraders when giving and receiving feedback

Does persuasion dimension has more to it than principles-first vs applications-first?

Leadership dimension builds on research on power distance by Geert Hofstede

Looks like, both Slava and Dima use both decisioning styles: consensual and top-down

Decisions with capital D and with lower D

Continued interaction over time can allow task-based trust grow into relationship-based trust and vice versa

How to build relationship trust?

Does confrontational disagreement come from inexperience in other methods of debating and arguing?

Flexibility with scheduling seems to be heavily dependent on context

Is our constant connectivity of modern world makes people feel like they can be more flexible with time?
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1h 14min
March 29, 2023 15: Team Jargon
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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 not a practice"

* Communication in and out of the team
* 6 examples of corporate jargon you should stop using now
* Every water park is "best" according to some metric
* Source of truth and indicator for turning a pump on and off
* PSA: you are entering the TLA land
* What's the difference between acronyms and abbreviations?
* Style guide from UK Government Digital Service
* Slava tries to humiliate Dima checking how good he is with technology abbreviations

In the next episode: discussion of "Culture Code" by Daniel Coyle.
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57min
March 20, 202314: Building Corporate Culture
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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

What it is "corporate culture"?

The Leader’s Guide to Corporate Culture from HBR

How come "Results" and "Caring" are the dominant culture styles in the study by HBR?

Tools for shaping corporate culture

Mission statements: meaningful instrument or culture charade

Feedback loops are very important for driving the culture

Beware of pitfalls of employee surveys

Recognition is not the same as rewarding and arguably recognition is more important than rewards

How to practice recognition regularly?

Soft Skills Engineering podcast

Navier-Stokes equations

Double edged sword of driving change with performance or just metrics

Challenges can be reframed as opprtunities

Social events for building corporate cultures
"Informal meeting at 5pm. Agenda is in the attached document."
Social events, though, can be a useful indicator to understand the culture
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1h 2min
February 28, 2023 13: Automating The State
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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 for leaps in adoption of new technology
* Does "technology" equal "no corruption"?
* If underlying process is bad, automation will just amplify it, not fix
* 10 Functions of the State (https://effectivestates.org/ten-functions-of-the-state/)
* Government is obliged to serve all citizens and cannot choose to have smaller marketshare
* Social Credit System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System) in China
* Arrow's impossibility theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem)
* Techno-optimists, techno-pessimists, and techno-realists
"What is the problem we are trying to solve?"
* "Nobody Gets Fired For Buying IBM" (https://www.forbes.com/sites/duenablomstrom1/2018/11/30/nobody-gets-fired-for-buying-ibm-but-they-should/)
* Risk acceptance and dependence on public opinion
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1h 7min
February 09, 2023 12: Hyperfocus
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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.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/) by Cal Newport?
* Focusing on external and internal in managing one's productivity
* Dima's most important takeaway: managing attention space
* What is a good way to refer to scientific research and findings
* Thinking about the most productive day
* Making intentions very specific vs. intentionally board themes
* Problems with the motivation to not break streaks
* Cone of Uncertainty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_of_Uncertainty)
* The "fog of the future" from the video about lockdowns (https://youtu.be/SVmEXdGqO-s)
* Slava's super productive day was a scatterfocus day
* What is scatterfocus and how to enter it?
* "How To Calm Your Mind" (https://chrisbailey.com/how-to-calm-your-mind/) – next book by Chris Bailey
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57min
January 27, 2023 11: Tactical planning
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Dima 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) (also known as Baader–Meinhof phenomenon)
* Tactical planning: where plans and ideas collide with the realities of life
* Focused #166: The Social Dilemma (https://www.relay.fm/focused/166)
* Time blocking as a planning method
* Dima uses Apple Watch to remind himself of daily goals
* Having tasks not done at the end of the day is... frustrating
* Challenges of winding down for the day
* Pro tip: to avoid overworking just let people know that you are late with something
* Slava does day blocking instead of time blocking
* Scheduling end-to-end vs having buffers and "digital travel time"
* Use the Two-Minute Rule To Stop Procrastinating (https://blog.doist.com/two-minute-rule/)
* Many to-do apps have quick tasks filing functionality
Next episode: book club discussion of Chris Bailey's "Hyperfocus" (https://chrisbailey.com/hyperfocus/)
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1h 5min
January 12, 2023 10: Workplace learning
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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
* Definitions: report, research, and survey
* 2023 Workplace Learning Trends Report (https://business.udemy.com/2023-workplace-learning-trends-report/) from Udemy
* Simpson's paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox)
* What is really trending and how come it is different from what is popular
* Why ~people~ companies create trend reports?
* Ideas for making reports less dry and faceless
* Udemy's market capitalization (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UDMY/key-statistics?p=UDMY)
* Company valuation methods (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/business-valuation.asp)
* Why startups burn through investment and it is ok
* Is technology important for valuation?
* Points (https://points.work/) series of events
* Unexpected challenges of running a research on the landscape of corporate learning in Ukraine
* Deep Space Industries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Industries)
Next topic: tactical planning. That is planning on the scale of days and weeks.
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1h 3min
January 06, 2023 9: Themes. 2023 Edition
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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/)
* Quinquennial (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quinquennial)
* Slava's theme hierarchy
* Dima's new theme
* MinimaList (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/minimalist-to-do-list-widget/id993066159)
* LogSeq (https://logseq.com/)
* Rocketbook (https://getrocketbook.co.uk/)
* Bullet Journal (https://bulletjournal.com/)
* Multi-tasking is the enemy of focus
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54min

FAQs about Biweeklycast:

How many episodes does Biweeklycast have?

The podcast currently has 372 episodes available.