Biweekly 262: Nice Или Kind All Of Sonar.1 podcast

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📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/isVefNnhijI 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 (https://biweeklycast.com/season-two/16) * 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 (https://99percentinvisible.org/club/) * Taste: My Life Through Food (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55360284-taste) by Stanley Tucci * Cargo cult (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult)…

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Biweeklycast 38: Faster and better 47:41

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📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/tpi7AhEabUY) 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 (https://www.relay.fm/focused) * Book "Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking" (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Fear-Observations-Rewards-Artmaking/dp/0961454733) * 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 (https://biweeklycast.com/season-two/36) * Deliberate practice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_%28learning_method%29#Deliberate_practice)…

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Biweeklycast 37: STRATsphere Talks 52:25

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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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Broker) * The 99% Invisible Power Broker Book Club (https://99percentinvisible.org/club/) * STRATsphere Talks Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYMLJoHoUKHEWIWkkB93lsGpdql2jDtDJ) * Differences between ongoing podcasts, like Biweekly, and limited series * "Continuity" in podcasts * Production: how the sausage is made * Software for recording * Riverside (https://riverside.fm/) * Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) * 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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Biweeklycast 34: Ideal Weeks 1:06:09

1 year之前1:06:09

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📺 Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/DyJZfE-1RDA). 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK5VUuxGYr0) * Simple 2024 Bullet Journal Setup (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6BU8ea-iJ0) * Some articles from the Internet about ideal weeks * How designing your ideal week can increase your productivity (and sanity) (https://mariepoulin.com/blog/design-your-ideal-week-increase-productivity/) * How to Better Control Your Time by Designing Your Ideal Week (https://fullfocus.co/ideal-week/) * Planning your ideal week (https://mikeyanderson.com/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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Biweeklycast 33: Themes 2024 1:02:52

1 year之前1:02:52

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📺 Watch [this episode on YouTube](https://youtu.be/F39xfuzM6Tw) 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 (https://biweeklycast.com/season-two/9) * The Theme System (https://www.themesystem.com/) * Your Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE) 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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Biweeklycast 32: We are Bob 49:25

1 year之前49:25

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📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/x724EDJjBbg 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 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32109569-we-are-legion-we-are-bob) * 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 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9647532-fuzzy-nation)…

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Biweeklycast 31: Zettelkasten Method 1:05:51

1 year之前1:05:51

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📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DkU497iK3dM 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 (https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/#the-introduction-to-the-zettelkasten-method) * Niklas Luhmann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 (https://youtu.be/HSTOSWOhNo4) * How to take smart notes (https://youtu.be/5O46Rqh5zHE?si=8CRVFRE7kx5vDAp7) * Slava uses Sidekick Notepad (https://youtu.be/vMpGWDA_ih8) * Note taking software * Logseq (https://logseq.com/) * Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) * Notion (https://www.notion.so/) * Book "How to Take Smart Notes" (https://www.soenkeahrens.de/en/takesmartnotes) * Atomic note – a note that represents exactly one idea * Literature and fleeting notes * Biweekly 28: No Rules Rules (https://biweeklycast.com/season-two/28) * 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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Biweeklycast 30: Co-creation 1:06:58

1 year之前1:06:58

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📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sZNscsoJma0 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" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illustrious) * L&D Mastery course (https://peoplefirst.club/courses/learning-and-development-mastery) * Collective creativity * Points (https://points.work/) 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! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbJw8PrIkc) * How to keep interest in the project going after the initial boost of enthusiasm? * Next project: centralized or de-centralized?…

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Biweeklycast 29: Unleashing the power 1:06:06

1 year之前1:06:06

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📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4_8Db7zVHGY 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 (https://www.instagram.com/victoria_pysarenko_vbs/) * What is Unleash the Power Within? (https://www.tonyrobbins.com/stories/unleash-the-power/what-is-upw/) * 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(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Sinclair), who researches aging * Is it worth to attend such a training online?…

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Biweeklycast 27: Transparency 59:25

2 years之前59:25

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📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cT9iDgtfknA Dima and Slava set out to discuss transparency as a potential solution to different challenges, but spend most of the time talking about compensation transparency and its challenges and benefits. * Follow-up: do managers overdo it out of desire for everything to go smoothly? * Focused #185: How to Be Miserable (https://www.relay.fm/focused/185) * Compensation transparency – disclosure of employee compensation amounts, either among other employees in an organization, to owners, to government regulators, or to the public (Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensation_transparency)) * Some articles from HBR on the topic transparency * Research: The Complicated Effects of Pay Transparency (https://hbr.org/2023/02/research-the-complicated-effects-of-pay-transparency) * Research: The Unintended Consequences of Pay Transparency (https://hbr.org/2022/08/research-the-unintended-consequences-of-pay-transparency) When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It (https://hbr.org/2016/07/when-transparency-backfires-and-how-to-prevent-it) * Transitioning to transparency can be risky that starting point is messy * Transparency on salaries and ranges would be incomplete without transparency on rules for promotions, etc * How does transparency benefit companies? * Is complete transparency even possible? * How to deal with misuse of information disclosed in pursuit of transparency? * Transparency vs brutal honesty * Biweeklycast #13 Automating The State (https://biweeklycast.com/season-two/13) * Next episode: book club discussion of No Rules Rules (https://www.norulesrules.com/)…

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26: Joggling five projects 1:04:28

2 years之前1:04:28

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📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/l5YKGj6QTlA 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 (https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/understanding-difference-programs-versus-projects-6896) a project is “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique project service or result.” * Questions Slava selected (https://biweeklycast.com/extra/chatgpt-questions-for-episode-26) 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 (https://bytelanguage.com/2018/04/10/zero-bug-bounce-zbb/) * 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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslach_Burnout_Inventory) * Buffers, buffers, buffers! * AI-generated podcasts (https://twitter.com/aisolopreneur/status/1663521127216435200)…

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Biweeklycast 25: Nonviolent Communication 1:08:59

2 years之前1:08:59

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📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Cw0wQFgBiHg 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 (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etiology) * Frequency illusion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion) (also known as Baader–Meinhof phenomenon) * Nonviolent Communication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication) * The book about NVC: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/71730). Dima listened to this other book (https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Nonviolent-Communication-Audiobook/B00TJO3RKI) by Marshall Rosenberg * Feelings and Needs Reference Guide (https://nvcacademy.com/media/NVCA/learning-tools/NVCA-feelings-needs.pdf) * 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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_psychology) * Biweekly 24: Courage To Be Disliked (https://biweeklycast.com/season-two/24) * A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Beautiful_Day_in_the_Neighborhood) * Spiral Dynamics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics) * Dialogs in Tarantino's movies and NVC…

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Biweeklycast 24: Courage To Be Disliked 1:09:51

2 years之前1:09:51

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📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lIWHGWhYq1s 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 (https://www.japansociety.org.uk/review?review=595) by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga * Individual psychology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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…

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Biweeklycast 23: Vigilant participation 1:07:04

2 years之前1:07:04

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📺 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/29AhIUTvv3Y 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 (https://site.laboca.co.uk/TFL-Safety-Posters) and new (https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/vccp-london-andrew-hudson-tfl-illustration-070623) * 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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower_Method) * Using time tracking and conscious prioritisation help to balance between urgent and important * Protected and unscheduled time…

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Biweeklycast 22: Joy Of Missing Out 51:55

2 years之前51:55