How to lose weight 30 kg, to learn to play bass and become a mermaid - Interview with Olga Levitsky, Cyber ​​Myonics

Chubby laboratory recluse Olga Levitsky decided, since we live in the XXI century, such a trifle as a single nerve, should not limit the freedom of expression. Now she has model looks, playing in a symphony orchestra and is already studying solo performance skills.

She founded the company Cyber ​​Myonics, develops and implements kiberkostyumy. Kiberkostyum - it ekzonervnaya system design that helps people lose weight, not being distracted from everyday life, dive into virtual reality, to acquire new skills or re-learn to move, recovering injury.

Olga - embryologist. Olga plays the double bass in the orchestra. Olga makes a terrific cosplay. Olga - diver 5th discharge diver and the diver feels like a mermaid in water. And we are still talking about the same person.

"One is a warrior, alone I can not cope with big challenges" - of the need to recruit a team

- Olga, in Facebook you Sonia. Since right?

- According to his passport, I Olga and Sonia, rather Sona - is a pseudonym, which was taken after a character in a computer game League of Legends, translated as "sound". At the time, Facebook page I created for communication with foreign teammates, that there called Sona. I made friends with the developers, and they have created a prototype of the game kiberkostyuma - DJ Sona, which made me very inspired. After years of research, design he eventually became quite different, due to technical requirements. Middle name and character remained. And cosplay at him with his development, I also did.

- Usually, a scientist activity appears as follows: at the head of the man an apple falls, it runs to solder a time machine, block change - and it is Batman. How did it actually happens? How long did your idea of ​​a cut before the first kiberperchatki?

- By the time I received a hand injury, I have had success in science, winning many competitions, excellent performance, publication, rich laboratory work, including in the field of Electrophysiology. But nothing is pushing for research and insights, as his own pain and terror gripped. But still an element of chance and spontaneity present.

The idea came to me from the anime that I watched in the hospital. I exclaimed "Eureka!", And then in the same hospital found a grant for the competition of the same name, thinking that that's how it should be.

Conclusion: yes, sometimes the apples fall down, but only to those who care for the apple tree and spend enough time in its shade during fruiting. But Apple is not enough. And the first thing I had to figure out - one is a warrior, I can not cope alone. Time against. Nerve overdone without contact for more than 40 minutes, that's all. He did not srastetsya. And if you overdo it more than six months, the tissue will begin to die off and all functions will be impossible to recover.

Therefore, I realized that it is necessary to assemble a team. I am a solo-skill-researcher, had no experience. Steels watch as the application for a grant, go accelerators and schools, becoming a leader, worthy of such a large-scale project.

The different grants for victories in competitions and contests on the development of grants, I studied for two weeks. In "Eureka", which I found out at the hospital, we have reached the final. There you have given me the expertise of project management. At this time I invested in the development of their personal funds, which are earned as a scientist-biologist, because I start work early enough (in the children's magazine with 12 years as a popularizer of science, but it is a bit does not count): lectured in biology engineers working in the laboratory of experimental embryology, robotics and intelligent systems.

And in the original specialty I geneticist-embryologist. Electrophysiology and neyrointerfeys I took in so far as.

- You have exactly one person?

- Yes. I am alone. And I'm not with itself alone.

- Well, then continue to talk about how you do your arm.

- Gloves? When the program was a "Eureka", I began to develop. I'm still studying at the institute, where the physiology department was needed for the first experiments equipment. As I studied very well and I had a lot of scientific achievements, I had a positive image, I do not allowed to use so even the presidential scholarship encouraged.

Day and night, I put the first experiments with existing technology, it alternated classes of acceleration in the program "Eureka" and Search artists for the project: engineers, programmers, because already at that time it was clear that the need to make a new equipment.

Before that I worked in one of the laboratories of MAI (Moscow Aviation Institute), and I had the experience of participating in one of the projects which have developed new equipment. We did a device for the prevention of cancer.

I had an idea, as it happens, but be a member of their team and the project to create - a "two big differences."

Prototype "in haste" (literally and figuratively) was collected for a total of six months. With neuroprosthesis - kiberperchatkoy - I was able to play the bass after three weeks of training. They began on 2 February. On March 1 I was on stage she sang in the orchestra, and felt the triumph of technology and endless happiness, not knowing what was waiting for me in front of ...

"For cookies specialists do not work" - about the team's motivation

- Tell us about the team that helped you collect prototype.

- First, four people working with me, then left three required, we are with them together made a glove and continue to work. Currently, 34 people work on the project, eight of them - the first team. From the original team only one remains. Cellist. It must be said that the trend of musical collaborators continues to persist. Music makes people smarter. Not sensible, but smarter. Not to be confused, this is important.

- These are people with burning eyes that are ready for future grants and cookies do something good?

- I only worked on the enthusiasm. Even now can not always (almost always fails) to pay his salary. Because all invest in the improvement of technical development characteristics.

If we talk about cookies, the good developers in some ways do not work well at market prices, prospects for realizing what is happening. Of course, there is an element of enthusiasm, but something absolutely free does not happen in the professional world. Starting with the fact that there are no experts - my peers, who could understand this well. All the experts - PhDs with experience and skill. And yet for the cookies, if they are not made of gold, hard ware do not work: needed materials and equipment.

- How do you manage the company?

Everyone has Google calendarFree and cheerful. There Trello, where the main recorded. There are folders with documents and research protocols. Standard planning - to Excel. The main thing - we have a hierarchical management system, each division leader manages its close in a way of thinking people. I was given the art of management is particularly difficult, worth so many nerves, many kilograms of excess weight (not the best, anyway, the lesson for the girls, the management) and practical life. Now I'm to much easier.

"I was able to fulfill the dream" - on the long road to happiness

- What achievement in all this do you think the main thing?

- The most important and indisputable believe that I was able to fulfill his dream.

From early childhood, I wanted to learn to play the bass. Now I'm finally able to enter the music, play for a professional symphony orchestra.

It makes me happy. I did not have the data - short-handed, not absolute pitch. But becoming a good biologist and a technologist, I'm so gradually overcome by dedicating every moment of its creation of the future, where I want to live.

- You lost weight from the suit in the 30 kg. I want to lose at least 10. Where and how much to pay?

- We are in the stage of attracting grants. Last year we had rented laboratory and service of individual selection of costume. It was a cost-effective - print suit for tens of thousands of rubles. Now it is not profitable to us and another six months for sure will not be profitable.

Especially so in the summer we spend visiting expedition for people where people produce customized kiberkostyumy.

They travel with us for the first few days somewhere "in the summer" for climate change, and to me it was convenient for them to calibrate kiberkostyum, to make fine adjustments, draw up reports of programs "for the future", and in parallel to conduct their studies of the dynamics of neuronal processes. And all of this event with kiberkostyumom that remains then the customer is worth 300 thousand rubles. Plus tickets and other nuances of travel, the cost of which we as organizers minimize. The nearest exit expedition will take place from 18 to 25 August at the Red Sea.

- How to get there?

- Soon I will announce record. Perhaps there will be another visit before, but this is not accurate. In the past year we have worked in the Maldives. This - on a yacht in Egypt.

- Do you plan to go to mass production?

- Yes, we are planning to mass production. Now a series of small - 10-12 pieces. And we want to make in the series have been hundreds and thousands. But few make kiberkostyum, it still need to adjust.

"If you count on a grant not count on it" - about finding funds for research

- Are you still sitting on grants or investor already?

- Investors have found themselves. But investment - this is a loan, leading to concrete business, and not on research. So, if and invest, then with the prefix "co". Co-investment to grants.

- You have a great experience in obtaining grants. Give advice to young scientists, what to do in order to receive funds.

- Rule one. Carefully and meticulously examine the documentation included with each of the grant competition. Formulate their ideas and tasks, compared with those requirements, which put the grant competitions. Every time the idea to adapt to the specific grant objectives.

Second Rule. Phasing. If you have never managed the money and decided to apply for 2-3 million, then you, firstly, can not get you upset, thinking that enough talented. And if they win, not be able to manage them well and money will be wasted. To this did not happen, it is necessary to follow the steps and the current grant system it suggests. Get the first half, then two, then ten.

Third Rule. Watch carefully who provide this grant and what it will be for you requirements. There are those who leave all the results to you. And there are those who leave everything behind.

The rule fourth. If you plan a project, see that you had a profit because the grants are actually very unreliable thing. The grant may give less. May prescribe large money back, the requirements may be such that you can not pass the reporting. A more grants swim in the timeline. You may have a research plan for six months, and the money will come in nine months. And that's what you want, and do it. I had to sell mouse pads with cushions-sisechki and their cute pictures. Benefit kiborgizirovannaya figure allows.

So if you are relying on a grant not count on it. Try to create a project so that it appeared even some money. Sometimes, for example, from the simpler products.

- Tell me about the biggest mistake of the project.

When working with people who try them less trusting. Check who picks the team, listen to the opinions of others.

Force people to work on the documents and contracts, despite the fact that it entails legal and tax burden.

This will save you from a sad situation when you have something to develop, developed, and then left with nothing, and nowhere is it written that it can you somehow belong. You're the man believed and got here is nothing.

Therefore, use the legal defense and try to record all activity logged. The process of developing better once again just not to trust anyone.

"Everything on a whim" - a hobby, and time management

- How does your workplace?

- There are times when I come to the workplace to the masters, where they have their own adapted playground. There is a place for meetings, but it is not constant, because it is not profitable to rent it, sometimes it is easier to negotiate with different people. Well, my desktop... The orchestra - the best place for the design of new research. And the ocean - the best place for the pilot experiments.

- And how do you divide the time?

- Oh, is difficult. Sometimes it happens that I sleep for three days for an hour or two, and then some sleep during the day, when executed the next intermediate stage of the project.

Even if you plan everything clearly, something will go beyond. Something that was planned for three hours, will take six. My way to have time - late.

- And what about the time management system? You they use?

- It should be. But while everything on a whim.

- Tell me about your hobbies.

- One hobby has reached a professional level - a double bass.

There is still a hobby for which I am also getting the money, so it's kind of profession. But I think about it as about the hobby. This cosplay model and activities. I have a great social and technological capital, so I find it easier than most to make a nice tech cosplay.

Basically it is a cosplay character, guess what. Sona from the "League of Legends", of course. And Miku Hatsune, she prototype Sona, only Japanese and mainly sings, while Sona prefers instrumental creativity. Close to me and then, and then, but the bass reinforcement visual stimuli in the priority.

- A sport? Or with so many cases there is no sport?

- I've been doing eSports and deal with it people. And what about a sport, the Ladder of Physical Education I give with ease, taking bass from the fourth floor one body and picking up on the fourth floor of another, and pumping more assiduity best method of pressing electrodes. I also kiberkostyum why I do it?

"So comes the future" - the work kiberkostyuma

- So how do you do with him she lost 30 kilograms?

- It was another technological triumph. Not like the bass, but still. I did not recognize the people with whom I have not seen for a month. And here I am talking about the new project, how thin using neyrokostyuma 30 kg. And they say to me, 'What is that, I know a girl who with the help of something like a hand to recover and learn to play bass. " That's funny.

But in general it is time consuming and costly in terms of the technology challenge.

weight loss secret is simple, he is not a secret: eat little and move a lot.

Why can not people eat lessWhen they want to lose weight? People are not to blame, it's dopamine, the hormone of joy, that person every day is not enough. Natural protection from stress - this myelination of nerve fibers and the development of calming hormones. And then, and then a lipid nature, so people and eat. Especially sweet because of it and produces dopamine.

Low mobility - a sedentary lifestyle, nothing can be done, I too sedentary.

Suit produces effects on human nerves that activate the muscles and internal organs, creates additional movement that feels like a nice massage. Muscles contract and tighten, but you can continue to sit and do their business.

And in this same process impact kiberkostyuma produced dopamine - comes joy muscle, increases metabolism, neuromuscular and autonomic systems work smoothly. Subcutaneous fat is reduced. There is relief and cheerfulness.

So comes the future - gracefully, almost imperceptibly. And from time to time I come to check the results and make adjustments. The white coat over kiberkostyuma slim, with bass and a large suitcase of equipment for maintenance.

Layfhakerstvo from Olga Levitsky

Best of all are inspired to work manual labor: at least draw even play instruments, even burn out - anything. The main thing - to consciously move. In my case, this is the production of things, crafts, cosplay and music production. We must not forget that the development of the motor cortex and logical thinking is related to the specific motor skills that we possess. That is, you can take and read a book, but sometimes it is made up of leaves origami. Especially if it detektivchik.

Now, regarding the content of the book. I love to read books for universities and Suza. This is very useful, people worked to present information systematically.

Do you want to learn and to think deeply, to understand - read books. They are not boring, if you understand them.

I look ongoingi anime, once a week they go out, and I allocate half an hour. This is useful because the anime - the supplier of the future ideas. Even the idea kiberkostyuma came from the anime.

Every day we deal with people and everyone sees something different. Someone - artificial Intelligence, Drones and robots, it is and does. And there are those who see the ragged stenochki and writes about all sorts of dystopia. Logically the same. And the one who sees the future in art, predictive picture of the world. This is the future that is near, you're looking at the future, you invent it already.

Japan - technological power, buying up a lot of patents, including Russian. No wonder that they paint the future in the anime so that I want to go and do it.

Anime - it's HG Wells and Jules Verne of the XXI century.

And last but not least. Take care. Give, do not forbid myself to love and admire. For the young inquisitive mind is a necessary activity in order to avoid becoming too adult, blinkered, not to stop at one point. And remember, we are all in "Labyrinth of Reflections" and see only what there is in us. Therefore, grow over each other and love each other.