36 episodes

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

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

    36: How Big Things Get Done

    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

    • 1 hr 7 min
    35: Backburner projects

    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

    Next episode: book club discussion of "How Big Things Get Done"

    • 53 min
    34: Ideal Weeks

    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?
    Planning multi-step activities for time efficiency

    • 1 hr 6 min
    33: Themes 2024

    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
    Visual reminders for themes

    • 1 hr 2 min
    32: We Are Bob

    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

    • 49 min
    31: Zettelkasten Method

    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?

    • 1 hr 5 min

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