
54: Thought leadership
Dima and Slava discuss the ineffable concept of thought leadership and politely disagree with the author of publication that sparked the discussion.

53: Undead documents
Dima and Slava discuss documentation for systems, processes, and so on, and debate how to prevent it from crossing the line from being helpful to being actively misleading.

52: Needs Analysis
Dima and Slava kind of follow up on the discussion of Customer Development in the previous episode and talk about chains of results in assessment of customer needs.

51: The Four Steps to Epiphany
Dima and Slava read and discuss "The Four Steps to Epiphany" – a classical book for entrepreneurs and startup founders.

50: More precise
Dima and Slava follow up on the conversation they started in episode 47 and Dima tries to articulate more precisely what he means by people not being specific enough and gives example of common pitfalls of obscure communication.

49: Season of strategy
Dima and Slava dive into wonderful season of strategic sessions and try to deduce why everyone does them in December and how to make working on strategy a time well spent.

48: Founder Mode
Dima and Slava discuss "Founder Mode", an essay by Paul Graham about differences between more founders and hired managers in tech companies.

47: Can you be more specific?
Dima shares his longing for the necessary details and the right level of abstraction, while Slava tries to persuade him that all the details aren't always necessary and everything can be fine anyway.

46: Creative Procrastination
From the discussion it is not entirely clear if Dima and Slava talk about procrastination that gets in the way of them accomplishing creative endeavors or all the creative they find to postpone working on hard and important things.

45: Starter Villain
Dima and Slava play literary critics and discuss "Starter Villain" – a book by John Scalzi.

44: Having Fun
Dima and Slava discuss different facets of having fun, discover the golden pentagon of productive state of mind, and nearly form a consultancy to preach that around the world.

43: EdTech Club
Slava shares his latest idea and initiative to create a space for EdTech companies to talk and work together on socially important projects. Dima, naturally, gets to ask questions to test the thinking.

42: How Minds Change
Dima and Slava have read "How Minds Change" by David McRaney and discuss how relatively diverse set of stories come (or do not come) together to give a practical framework for influencing others.

41: Distractions
Dima and Slava talk about distractions, different ways to categorize them, and discuss how to prevent any kind of distraction from derailing an otherwise productive day.

40: Are LLMs overhyped?
Dima and Slava discuss their experiences with LLMs, Slava's recent forays into trainings on using AI technologies, and prophecies about the future of AI, some of which were probably generated with the help of AI.

39: Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!
Dima and Slava have read and now discuss "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!", a memoir by the renowned theoretical physicist Richard Feynman.

38: Faster and better
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.

37: STRATsphere Talks
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.

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.

35: Backburner projects
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.