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Friendly discussions about life, business, engineering, and learning between Dima Malenko and Slava Rudnytskyi.
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36: How Big Things Get Done
Dima and Slava read the book about how big things get done and discuss where they agree and disagree with the author and what they've learned from the book and from talking about it.
Discombobulation continues: Discombobulated by Eminem
Dima's struggles with ultra fine Pilot G-2 pens
How Big Things Get Done
Challenges with examples for something as multi-faceted as big projects
Understanding the true goal of the project is critically important for the success of the project
Ides of "Jobs To Be Done" – check this article
Dima's classification of projects into "closed" and "open" projects
Amager Bakke – waste-to-energy power plant which is also an artificial ski slope
It is all about mindset -
35: Backburner projects
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Dima contemplates getting work done on projects that are not immediate top priority and Slava points out that there is nothing wrong with pushing, as long as it is done in a considerate way.
Dima's theme corner
Difficult inroads into meditation with Headspace
Free-form theme journaling
Can projects really be important but not urgent?
Enshittification of the Internet
Struggles of leading a second priority project
Reverse psychology
"More power too people! But not too much..."
Bugging people in a considerate way, with care
Pushing and pulling strategies for moving projects forward
Frequent releases to keep people engaged
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34: Ideal Weeks
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
Simple 2024 Bullet Journal Setup
Some articles from the Internet about ideal weeks
How designing your ideal week can increase your productivity (and sanity)
How to Better Control Your Time by Designing Your Ideal Week
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?
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33: Themes 2024
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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
The Theme System
Your Theme 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
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32: We Are Bob
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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
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 -
31: Zettelkasten Method
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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
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
How to take smart notes
Slava uses Sidekick Notepad
Note taking software
Logseq
Obsidian
Notion
Book How to Take Smart Notes
Atomic note – a note that represents exactly one idea
Literature and fleeting notes
Biweekly 28: No Rules Rules
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?