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  • 26: Joggling five projects

    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 a project is “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique project service or result.”
    • Questions Slava selected for the discussion out of 50 generated by ChatGPT
    • How to operate when there are 5 priorities?

      • "Working on a project generates more work for that project"

      • Delegation is important. Thank you, Cap!
      • Should manager be the safety net for the team?
      • Zero Bug Bounce
      • Make team part of the solution, not part of the problem: ask them to fix what's not working
      • People become more volatile and less reliable when their country is at war
      • Maslach Burnout Inventory
      • Buffers, buffers, buffers!
      • AI-generated podcasts
        • 1 hr 5 min
      • 25: Nonviolent Communication

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        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
        • Frequency illusion (also known as Baader–Meinhof phenomenon)
        • Nonviolent Communication
        • The book about NVC: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. Dima listened to this other book by Marshall Rosenberg
        • Feelings and Needs Reference Guide
        • Is NVC getting trendier? And why is that?
        • Buying the whole method vs picking individual ideas
        • Do different cultures talk about feelings differently?
        • Individual psychology
        • Biweekly 24: Courage To Be Disliked
        • A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
        • Spiral Dynamics
        • Dialogs in Tarantino's movies and NVC
          • 1 hr 9 min
        • 24: Courage To Be Disliked

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          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 by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
          • Individual psychology
          • Is the dialog style of the book helpful?
          • Pressure to achieve and the feeling of inferiority
          • "I'm ok. You are ok."
          • Blue ocean [strategy]
          • Dima's impressions from the first visit to the US
          • Does community feeling go in conflict with self-reliance?
          • Is it really possible not to praise and not to rebuke?
          • Why systems of principles prone to exhibiting inconsistencies?
          • Third courage: the courage to be normal

            • "Average person considers oneself smarter than an average person."

            • Dima was not a great fan the naming this kind psychology "Adlerian" and Slava offers an explanation of why that may be
              • 1 hr 10 min
            • 23: Vigilant participation

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              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 and new
              • What to do when as a participant one notices that a meeting or a session takes an unwanted turn
              • 4 things that can raise a flag
                • discussion diverges from the agenda
                • tension between two participants escalates
                • slow overall progress towards the goal
                • deliverable being produced has flaws
                • AOB (Any other business) section in the agenda as a universal buffer for fixing meetings
                • Do we expect informal leaders to intervene when things are not going right?
                • How to signal to the facilitator when one notices something?
                • The Eisenhower Matrix
                • Using time tracking and conscious prioritisation help to balance between urgent and important
                • Protected and unscheduled time
                  • 1 hr 8 min
                • 22: Joy Of Missing Out

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                  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"
                  • JOMO: The Joy of Missing Out in Psychology Today
                  • Books by Chris Bailey
                    • "Hyperfocus". We discussed this book in Biweeklycast #12
                    • "How to Calm Your Mind"
                    • Slava's quest for slowing down
                    • Dima's revelation on the Tube about triggered by irritation at people walking to slowly
                    • Transport for London commissioned new design for safety posters. Dima likes the previous ones better
                    • Reseting the routine to allow oneself to slow down
                    • Breaking away from the news addiction
                    • Book "The Knowing-Doing Gap"
                    • Spaceship You by CGP Grey
                    • Do we treat subscriptions to self-improvement services as a tax that should automagically fix things for us?
                    • JOBA (joy of being aware) instead of JOMO
                      • 52 min
                    • 21: Friends and Friendship

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                      Dima and Slava host Karyna 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"
                      • Book "Crossing the Chasm" was written by Geoffrey W. Moore. Andy Grove (3rd CEO of Intel) wrote a book called “Only the Paranoid Survive”
                      • Karyna's year of friendship
                      • Levels of friendship: acquaintance → casual friend → close friend → intimate friend
                        • Difference definitions of "friend" and "friendship" in different cultures
                        • There is a research published that suggests it takes around 200 hours with a person to form a close a relationship
                        • "The Art of Sunday" and "Wednesday Coffee"

                          • "Be open. Don't be afraid."


                          • How Aspen format overcome insecurities we all develop as we go through life
                          • Going out to find new friends and reaching out to people are not always easy, but often are so worth it
                          • Relationships vs. networking
                            • 1 hr 5 min
                          • 20: The Decision Book

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                            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 (also known as Baader–Meinhof phenomenon)
                            • More about to-don’t lists  YANSS 260 – The Science of Stuck (rebroadcast) 
                            • Yakaboo – online book shop in Ukraine
                            • Untools: tools for better thinking
                            • The Decision Book
                            • Bernoulli's Fallacy
                            • Model vs method
                            • There are unknown unknowns
                            • Swiss cheese model of risk analysis
                            • Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
                            • Diffusion of innovations
                            • Tuckman's stages of group development – forming–storming–norming–performing
                            • Bloom's taxonomy for education objectives

                              • "All models are wrong, but some are you useful." George W. Box

                              1 hr 1 min
                            • 19: The To-Don't List

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                              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 can help find people with similar interest in real life
                              • The Breakfast app
                              • Focused #175  The To-Don’t List 
                              • Dima's definition of a to-don't list: list of things that should not get on a to-do list
                              • Why Everyone Should Have a To-Don't List, According to This Harvard Professor (and 8 Ideas on What to Add to Yours) 
                              • I tried making a ‘to-don’t list’ instead of a to-do list. Here’s what I learned 
                              • The state of flow
                              • Difficulties of expressing vague and deeply felt ideas 

                                • "It's not prioritization until it hurts"

                                • Pushing back on meeting requests and challenges of this process
                                • Slava's method: personal retrospective
                                • Finding an ally is a great first step towards any change, especially a big one
                                • How to start a movement by Derek Sivers

                                  • Next episode: book club discussion of The Decision Book.

                                  52 min
                                • 18: 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."

                                      1 hr 1 min
                                    • 17: 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
                                            • 57 min

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