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

  1. DEC 3

    Estimation

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube. Dima and Slava discuss the complexities of estimation in business contexts and the challenges of striking the balance between ambition and realism. Estimation, forecasting, and projectingDesired level of confidence for the estimate makes a differenceShort-term vs long-term estimation50/50 goalsBenchmarking is helpful when you do something novelWorking backwards can help in planning projectsIs your thing really a special snowflake?Illusion of precision, or precision biasRealistic estimated vs ambitious goalsEstimation and benchmarking was also discussed in Biweeklycast #36 How Big Things Get Done.

    31 min

  2. NOV 16

    Ambiguity

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube. Dima is doing his best to explore a particular flavour of ambiguity and Slava keeps him in check by sticking to definitions and anchoring the discussion to reality. Ambiguity – the quality of being open to more than one interpretationIs ambiguity merely a lack of proper definitions?Approaches that help in dealing with ambiguityExplicit definition of how success looks likeClear definition of the problem to be solvedValidate hypothesis with real-world inputsAt times, dealing with ambiguity requires a leap of faith

    29 min

  3. OCT 26

    Good strategy, bad strategy

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube Dima and Slava explore Richard P. Rumelt’s book Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters and share insights they took away from the book. https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Difference-Matters/dp/0307886239https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Safari-Through-Strategic-Management/dp/0743270576The Kernel of Strategy: diagnosis, guiding policy, coherent actionsWhat does coherence have to do with policy and strategy?Building on your strength is a great foundation of strategyBad strategy is the result of a leader who’s unwilling or unable to say “No”Cut through that “strategic fluff” with focus on concrete and specific elementsDon’t trust examples from business books. Do your own research6 reflections after reading the bookRating the book: 3 and 5 out of 10The greatest closing quote ever by Dima Malenko: “Think for yourselves!”Check out other bookclub episodes of Biweekly

    30 min

  4. OCT 16

    Strategy

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube. Dima and Slave talk about what strategy is and what strategy isn’t. From Wikipedia: Strategy is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty.Dima’s characteristics of a strategyMulti-step plan, a “pattern of decisions”Built on a particular world viewAims at global (long-term) maximumDoes not rely on competitors making favourable choicesRequires agency and ability to executeDifferent flavours of strategy: business strategy, product strategy, etcNot every entity needs a strategyVision without execution is a daydream. Execution without vision is a nightmare.

    27 min

  5. OCT 6

    Priorities

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube. Dima and Slava count priorities and discuss how having to count priorities is a problem in and of itself. Dilution of terminology: priorities, KPIs…“Focus” is a good alternative that is expressly singularPriority: importance vs orderingDoes priority get most time or the best time?One with 10 priority tasks gets to choose what the true top priority isPriority management cultures: collective and individualDoes need for prioritisation arise having a lot more work that one can do?Have a stack of priorities and be very explicit about themLimit number of top priority items that you have at any given time

    32 min

  6. AUG 27

    62: Season finale

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube Dima and Slava discuss the end of the second season of Biweeklycast and talk about what to expect in the upcoming third season.

    21 min

  7. AUG 19

    61: Shall we get more feedback?

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube Dima and Slava discuss the practice of Open Feedback Circle and challenges of providing specific and actionable corrective feedback. Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman PodcastThe Hedgehog and the FoxOpen Feedback CircleFour A’s Feedback of FrameworkNo Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Erin Mayer. Discussion in Biweekly #28What is the value that people get from Open Feedback Circles?“Assume positive intent”Talking to people does help a lot

    57 min

  8. AUG 3

    60: Range

    📺 Watch this episode on YouTube. Dima and Slava have read the book “Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialised World” and discuss what it means to be a generalist and what it takes to triumph. Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialised World by David EpsteinBiweekly 42: How Mind ChangeWicked and kind learning environmentsPeacetime CEO/Wartime CEO"Story telling with some examples"General statements cannot be proven with just an exampleWho do we call “generalists”, anyway?T-shaped skillsLateral thinkingThe Market for Lemons – a theory behind bad products succeeding on a marketplaceBest sellers vs best readersAll bookclub episodes of BiweeklyNext bookclub episode is going to be an experiment: a book vs podcastsBook: The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age by Claudia Hammond

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

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  • Creator
    Biweeklycast
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2025
  • Episodes
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