📺 Watch this episode on YouTube 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 ...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube 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...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube 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...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube 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 ...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube 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...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube 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...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube 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...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube 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. You can now also subscribe to Biweeklycast on Spotify. "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...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube 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...

📺 Watch this episode on YouTube 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...

Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/iXqDNZWJD2c) 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...

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qWJRbR68vkU 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...

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bExjWqJ4XWQ 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...

Watch this episode on YouTube(https://youtu.be/eZEtdefAPA0) 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/)...

Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/L-P71qki3U8) 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...

Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/6YlLkmYB2ik) Slava and Dima welcome Yulia Kudina and together they try to figure out what learning is, how they do that, and unexpected things they learned recently. * Yulia Kudina (https://www.instagram.com/yk.career/) * Подкаст Льоші і Юлі (https://podcasts.apple.com/cy/podcast/%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82-%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%96-%D1%96-%D1%8E%D0%BB%D1%96/id1644674115) * Chapter numbers Audible...

Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/k1xrwaKxV-A) Dima and Slava talk about book "Tell to Win" by Peter Guber and tell their own stories about the role storytelling plays in their lives. * "Tell to Win" (https://www.peterguber.com/leadership/telltowin/) by Peter Guber * Structured decision making for choosing a school * Chapters in the audiobook do not line up (https://www.reddit.com/r/audible/comments/7unce0/comment/dtmned8/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)...

Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/xXDDl8cU3_0) Dima and Slava discuss "structured decision making" and challenges and pitfalls of decision making processes often employed in business setting. * Slava attended another Aspen seminar and it transformed him * Structured decision making for choosing the best options * Decision Matrix (https://untools.co/decision-matrix) * Traffic Lights...

Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/PNqBGGXxZVo) Dima and Slava look for fulfillment in work and discuss how our approaches for setting goals may be preventing us from feeling happy. * José Ortega y Gasset (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortega_y_Gasset) (1883-1955) – a spanish philosopher * "The Revolt of the Masses" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolt_of_the_Masses) – Ortega's most significant work * "To have arrived"...

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/a6bIJMp_vYw. Dima and Slava sit with Andrii Suslenko, a journalist and a business-coach, to talk about coaching, mentorship, consulting, and differences and overlaps between those. * Our guest – Andrii Suslenko (https://suslenko.live/) * Podcast "How you think" (https://linktr.ee/how.you.think) * Who is a coach? A person that helps individuals or teams achieve goals * Who is a mentor? A person who transfers their superior knowledge,...

Dima and Slava read and discuss book "Pitch Anything" by Oren Klaff and evaluate ideas of frame control, dominance, and eradicating neediness against their own experience.

Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/3B6sNvVmjcw). Dima is concerned with the fate of expertise and how easy experts have it now, and together with Slava they look experts in the workplace and how they mess up code reviews. * The Death of Expertise (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Expertise-Campaign-Established-Knowledge/dp/0190865970), the 2018 book * The Death Of Expertise (https://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/), the 2014 article * Was it better for...

Watch this episode on YouTube (https://youtu.be/olwJwDFImC4). Slava wonders one can learn to plan for longer term and together with Dima they discuss different approaches to planning and when and why they are effective. * How Dima and Slava came together to start a podcast six years ago and what changed since then * Planning approaches * SMART vs OKRs (https://www.weekly10.com/differences-between-smart-goals-and-okrs/) * Lighthouse Planning (https://www.lifejunctions.com/lighthouse/) *...

Этот выпуск в YouTube: https://youtu.be/o0y4iPGYe6s Дима и Вячеслав проводят ретроспективу первого сезона Biweekly и делятся планами на свое подкастерское будущее. * Первый эпизод Biweekly вышел 24 февраля 2016 года (https://sonar.one/biweekly/1) * Другиe Димины подкасты * Доброе утро, Индия! (https://sonar.one/good-morning-india) * Not Invented Here (https://sonar.one/podcasts/not-invented-here) * Подкаст Biweekly начался с идеи "Английский – в широкие айтишные массы!" * Славу привел...

Этот выпуск в YouTube: https://youtu.be/nGm49S61f94 Дима и Вячеслав обсуждают философию постмодернизма и попеременно примеряют шапки постмодернистов, пытаясь отстоять их позиции друг перед другом. * Как ведущие понимают "постмодернизм"? * Определение "постмодернизма" (https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy) в энциклопедии Britannica * Другое определение “Postmodernism refers to the state of culture where media is produced in sгch staggering quantities that it has crossed...