Postochka Podcast: Design and Technology: Recent Episodes
Kirill and Alisher
Two friends and 10 years of phone conversations. Alisher and Kirill are designers who passionate about startups, technology, and many more. Both coming from Kazakhstan, they work in completely different fields and exchange experience with each other and their listeners.
How to get more from giving less? In this episode, Alisher and Kirill discuss the importance of thinking about leverage and its application. Our life has its limits — we have to choose the most optimal path to achieve our goals. The episode touches on relationships, energy control, and focus, the importance of commitment, and the value of fundamentals. We talk about how modern humanity leverages what has been done in the past and how we must carry it forward.
In this Episode, Kirill and Alisher discuss the following points:
00:00 — What does leverage mean? Where does the concept come from?
02:30 — Energy usage within different ecosystems
03:54 — Ecosystems as a source of highest leverage
14:00 — Leverage the basics over longterm
16:00 — Believing in other people and their ideas
23:00 — Standing on the shoulders of others
24:00 — Distinction between leverage and exploitation
25:00 — Metrics & Data
33:00 — Critical threshold and the concept of 10000 hours
42:00 — Positive and negative leverage in the business:
—> Reputation vs. heritage and status
—> Network effects vs. Walled Gardens+Vendor Lock
—> Strong ecosystem vs. Rent-seeking
57:00 — Identifying Flywheels for the organizations and the individuals
01:06:00 — Frameworks and strong abstractions. Pattern language
01:14:00 — Form the system & it will form you
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In this Episode, Kirill and Alisher discuss the following points:
01:17 – What is strategy, basically?
03:25 – Holistic & Creative or Strategic?
06:44 – Inspired by KZ Strategy 2030
10:25 – How to develop Strategy?
15:21 – Operational Activity vs Strategic Activity
23:08 – How to evaluate your Strategy, Metrics, and Strategic Activity?
29:53 – Fixed vs Adaptive Strategies
31:29 – Centralized vs Decentralized Strategies
38:52 – Centralized and Decentralized Systems
44:05 – Extend, Embrace, Extinguish (Triple E Strategy)
46:45 – Bundling and Unbundling Strategies
49:03 – Trade-off between different types of Strategies
51:33 – Goals vs Systems
53:45 – Strategic Decisions
55:01 – Multidimensional Strategic Thinking
1:05:27 – Game Theory
1:09:39 – Nash Equilibrium: Optimal, not Dominant Strategy
1:18:29 – Coordination Issues and Incentives Design
1:22:50 – Closing Quotes
1:26:05 – Why to have a Life Strategy?
1:29:32 – Closing Thoughts
Dear listeners, if you have any comments, thoughts, ideas, claims, or feedback, we'd love to hear from you at our community t.me/postochka! Hear you next week!
Collaboration is important as never before — great things require more experience, knowledge, and work than one person can possibly contribute. We have to learn how to effectively communicate our ideas to other people, how to involve multiple parties in decision making, and use modern tools to build things together. Collaboration is our greatest productivity weapon, but it also can negatively affect our speed and ability to change.
Alisher and Kirill intensively discuss the past and future of collaboration. What do COVID and the rise of crypto mean for collaboration? How can we leverage those changes?
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In this episode Kirill and Alisher touch the following points:
- Intro: energy, effectiveness, and efficiency
- About measuring things
- What brings and takes energy?
- About work systems and maintenance
- Consumption - a necessary evil?
- Organizational depth and fundamental principles
- Type of metrics in our lives
- The underrated importance of hidden metrics
Dear listeners, please, let us know about your ideas in our telegram community t.me/postochka! See you soon and enjoy your summer!
One of the most fundamental questions is How To Finish! There are definitely things that vary from field to field on the important factors to get things done yet there are still permanent principles that will help us to make the final result.
In this episode Kirill and Alisher discuss the fundamental concepts essential:
- Systems vs goals
- Process vs results
- Importance of motivation and its types
- Misconceptions about motivation
- Power of habits, maintenance and ecosystems
- Vision of the final result
- When should we quit if at all?
- Giving up in short term and long term
This is the final episode in the series of "How To"! Please, enjoy the conversation and join the world of amazing concepts and ideas at our community t.me/postochka.
How do you achieve independence? What is the difference between independence and interdependence? How it can help us to shape life, stay creative and build happy relationships with others?
Alisher and Kirill share how they integrate certain practices and attitudes into the system to be more independent. Either we talk about practical stuff or thinking, there are stories and concepts from daily life to stay critical and avoid acceptable but nonsensual practices.
Enjoy the conversation and join the whole world of amazing ideas at our community t.me/postochka We also share valuable links from the episode for further exploration.
What does it take to become financially independent?
What steps should we take to make a huge fortune?
What is essential for us to understand in the modern passion economy?
In this episode, Kirill and Alisher make the first intro into the financial topic such as Money, sharing their own perspectives and life stories on how to make it financially! They will discuss the stages of financial independence; essential ideas on the passion economy; and most importantly the ways how to become financially independent in the modern era!
Check out our Telegram channel where we share so much more - t.me/postochka. We love to hear your opinions, thoughts, and ideas!
What is going to happen in a year or two? What should we prepare for in a 3-5 years horizon? What awaits us in a decade and beyond? Why should we care about what is going to happen this century, millennium, and beyond? What is the point of thinking so far ahead in time?
In this episode, Kirill and Alisher summarize and bring some fresh ideas on one of the most advanced thinking mindsets of this century - Long-term Thinking. Explore the amazing possibilities and ways how to take your life to the next level by thinking beyond day-to-day operations, and focusing on what truly matters to you from the greater time perspective!
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What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? What is beyond our lives? What happens after our death?
Kirill and Alisher have an in-depth discussion about the meaning of life, sharing their thoughts on the topic and trying to understand - why are we here and where should we go?
This is the very first special episode of the podcast, where they share such fundamental ideas about the topic!
Please, enjoy the conversation and join the community of designers, entrepreneurs, and creators at t.me/postochka!
What is a laser focus? Alisher and Kirill discuss "The Focus" and how it can help us to achieve better results in the short and long terms. The episode covers how focused work produces trends, brings long-term benefits and "domino-effect" to our achievements.
There are techniques that you can practice straight away. They will help you to be aware of your time, priorities, and low-hanging fruits.
This episode is a part of the ongoing series that cover foundational aspects of entrepreneurship and life.
Enjoy the conversation and join the whole world of amazing ideas at our community t.me/postochka We also share valuable links from the episode for further exploration.
Method of Progressive JPEG, Design Thinking, how to make the right vision so that it gives you inspiration and navigation on your execution journey, main pitfalls when we try to get things done, the difference between smart work and hard work, and a lot more in this wonderful episode of the series "How To".
Kirill and Alisher discuss various concepts in our lives but the main currency of the Universe is ACTION, and the rest does not really matter. Be the person of action before the person of word or thought because the right actions include the right words and thoughts. Would've, could've, should've - never mind! What matters is what you do, not what you know or what you could. And that's why what defines our lives is actions in the first place!
In this episode, Kirill and Alisher discuss the main ideas behind stellar execution strategies from personal life experiences as well as from what they've learned. Check out the Telegram Channel t.me/postochka for more crazy and game-changing ideas and join the long-term community of creators and innovators!
«It's not about development, it's about how fast you develop». Alisher and Kirill discuss the learning strategies from the years of experimenting and accelerating their process.
We inherited common learning behaviors — we overvalue reading, tend to hoard information, rarely consider the role of energy. The episode surges those assumptions. Alisher and Kirill cover a wide range of topics — from feedback loops, amortization to the «Makers and Managers» schedule and the role of mentors.
Enjoy the conversation and join the whole world of amazing ideas at our community t.me/postochka We also share valuable links from the episode for further exploration.
Do you celebrate New Year? It is natural for us to spend some time on generally overviewing the events from the year, analyzing them, extracting lessons, and preparing for the next one.
What are the most important goals you have achieved?
What are the most valuable lessons you have learned?
What are the most essential milestones you have reached?
In this episode, Kirill and Alisher share their reflections on the whole year specially excluding points related to the COVID-19 (as they have been covered right in the previous episode) but focusing on the most significant ones.
We would love to hear your feedback about the episode, your personal thoughts about our lessons and ideas as well as your invaluable lessons in our Postochka Community: t.me/postochka!
Have a wonderful year ahead, dear listeners!
With great respect yours,
NK & AT
Crazy year, huh? Coronavirus revealed a lot: the fragility of our systems, the importance of the local community, the larger crisis of democracy. Probably, all global lessons are less valuable than millions of personal takes that each of us got from the year.
In this episode, Alisher and Kirill have a close look at problems in democracy, issues of trust. They discuss why adaption is the single-most-important human quality, how invisible metrics affect our health, and why we can learn from astrology as from any other societal wisdom.
This episode is less about facts and more about emotions. If you have anything to share with us, please, reach out.
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What are principles, anyway? How can identifying our own life principles help us make better decisions? What is more important - principles or practicality? How should we decide what principles to follow in a given situation? What is the difference between short-term and long-term practicality?
In this episode, Kirill and Alisher discuss fundamental ideas about the essence of principles explaining those concepts by referring to their own life principles.
At the end, they provide the members of the community with exhaustive answers to their questions regarding strategy and financial management.
Please, enjoy the conversation and join the whole world of amazing ideas and the Postochka Community at t.me/postochka!
Finding co-founders is not easy. You really care about the results of the company, because you love what you do. Maybe, you take things emotionally and having trust issues. It's hard to not be defensive, to trust the future of your baby to someone else. We get it.
The proactive process is key. You better be prepared and start building meaningful relationships today.
Alisher and Kirill share their experience and give a direction for anyone who cares about productive partnerships. Practical tips mixed with random stories.