Jobs: Nikolay Shestakov, online service partner of household services YouDo.com

What do you do in your work?

The last four years I mostly come up with business plans, find them under people infect their ideas and help to develop these same projects.

From the outside it often looks as if he just read and respond to emails. :)

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

I consider myself a left-hemispheric, with a mathematical mind, but I do not like routine work with Excel.

I'm a man-result.

I can not be long in the monotonous and delay the process. This is my serious disadvantage. I know him and fight with him.

I'm never late. It's true. This is a plus and a minus at the same time, as always have to lay in the time schedule for emergency and punctuality - Pipit not all partners.

How does your workplace?

I have a private room, but I spend a little time there. Most of the day out of the office occupied by the meeting, negotiations, frequent flights.

In school I was always a mess on the table. When I became older, I heard from my grandfather phrase that corresponds to the state of the desktop as in the head and in my thoughts.

Now I have on the table a minimum of things - a laptop, documents, works with mobile phone and mineral water.

In the office and at home I stand speaker Bang & Olufsen BeoPlay A9. They are executed in a retro style and very good sound. When the head is in full swing and the need to rest, turn on something light, such as acid jazz, lounge, downtempo. It helps.

And yet I have a lot of pandas. Everywhere.

Panda with my height, leather 20-kilogram, panda robot, covers for car seats as pandas, Chinese collectible coins with pandas and so on. The once cheerful nickname has led to the fact that I from all over the world are now being taken in black and white bears.

What gadgets do you use?

Here I am, I confess, I am seriously ill: regularly make offerings on the altar of Steve Jobs. And almost always find a "rational" explanation of why me another gadget, or update. Recently, however, it is difficult to justify: either getting old, or gadgets no longer be the revolutionary, as before.

My gentleman's set consists of:

• MacBook Pro 13 ". This is my most important tool. Very happy with it. updated recently. Prior to that, several years enjoyed the MacBook Air 13 ".
• iPhone 7. I have two: one with Moscow number, and the second - with the European. I see no reason to switch to any dvuhsimochny "Chinese". Firstly, the two phones - the two battery, and I often switch from one to the other. Secondly, I have already been informed of four attempts to switch to Android. All to no avail. One time I forced myself to write with his left hand and left leg playing football. But with Android it has been the same story - not grown together.
• iPad Pro. Updated a few months ago, I am extremely pleased with this acquisition. Thanks to Apple Pencil I started using iPad stylus for quick notes during meetings, the graphic correction of large print documents, and more able to read books on your iPad.
• Apple AirPods. Wireless headphones from Apple with the function of hands free - the opening of this year. They sit perfectly even in my unusual ears. Headphones are ideal for practicing sport (do not fall out even on the treadmill) and for the computer (it is possible, without distraction, to chat). Each earpiece can be used alternately, and charged directly in the case.
• Bose QuietComfort 35. I bought the headphones in the winter in the US and I can say that they are just saving me during a long flight due to the function Noise Cancelling. It allows you to greatly reduce the audibility of external sounds.

What software do you use?

Here are the necessary minimum of the programs on the laptop:

1. Post office.
2. Messengers - Skype, WhatsApp, Viber and Telegram.
3. Several browsers, including Tor. Last gives the opportunity to visit the sites, regardless of the opinion of Roskomnadzor.
4. Calendar and to-do-list, which is synchronized with the working gadget of my assistant. This allows you to quickly schedule meetings and tasks and monitor their execution.
5. Things and OmniFocus. I test both programs in order to select the optimal business processes.
6. Keynote and PowerPoint. Several times a month have to speak at conferences, forums and before the HSE students, SUM, "Synergy" and "Skolkovo". I visualize ideas by means of presentations.

On the phone I have more than 400 applications. At least once a week, I scan the tops App Store, to understand what applications are currently in demand by users.

What is in your bag?

With regard to the contents of the bag, as well as in the working process, I try to respect the principle of minimalism.

Over the past three years, the size of my portfolio decreased threefold. And every new portfolio I gave the girls, and I thought: "This does not fit!" But you get used to charge It is only the most important - laptop, mobile phone, iPad, wallet, documents and extra battery for the phone and tablet.

The love to take a trip backpack Cote & Ciel. He is a very comfortable, roomy, with lots of branches.

In addition to the standard set in backpack holds one or two cord to charge the phone, eye drops, nose drops, a set of essential medicines, passport, multiadapter for different types of electrical outlets, towels and thermal water.

Recently also obzavolsya quadrocopter DJI Mavic Pro. Once osvoyus with him, I will also take with them: size allows it to do, and photos and videos from the bird's-eye view obtained very beautiful.

How do you organize your time?

I owlWho dreams of becoming an early riser. even manage sometimes.

All their meetings and business strictly fixed in the calendar.

I do not understand how people today use paper diaries.

My calendar is synchronized with the assistant devices and some of the staff who have to see my schedule, and I - it. It is very convenient and allows you to understand without further action, if there is an employee in the office and is available whether it is to communicate.

With regard to the delegation I can not call myself a guru, but sincerely believe that I am not a genius, so in each area should surround themselves with smarter people to combine them into commands and control the outcome.

What place sport occupies in your life?

Impermanent. :)

From August to December last year, I dropped 23 kilograms due to periodic sports and proper nutrition. No new methods were not invented by me, but my eating habits at that time have changed. I consumed the least carbohydrates, especially fast, fat and sweet.

I also tried two times a week to appear in the Hall of cardio and swimming. My coach was against active exercise, but made daily pass 10 000 steps. It seems to me, because of my desire to achieve this goal, I had the reputation in the "Moscow City" crazy city. Every day for an hour or two went by "Afimall" wandering between shop windows, and became well-known among those who worked there.

But then came the New Year's... It's a shame, but in the winter I decently scored from the volume, which dropped at the end of last year.

Now I go back to the diet and sports. A new challenge - a new goal.

Layfhakerstvo from Nikolay Shestakov

books

Communicate with the living intellectuals for me is much more useful and more important than any book. But the book is still read.

At the same time it is very important to me to emphasize liked the idea and make notes, especially in the business literature. I even have its own index useful read for each book, which I calculated from the ratio of the number of pages in the book to the number of thoughts, it seemed interesting to me.

read "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"Richard Bach. It is a tale that is very wise. Makes you think twice about what we do in life that we create, that leave behind and we get pleasure from it. It is important.

Movies and Video

Films, like wine, like with a good finish. The last of the memorable - "Perfect Stranger", "The Phantom Beauty" and "Youth".

From the series - "Silicon Valley", "The Big Bang Theory," "Game of Thrones," "Homeland" and "billion".

With great interest the YouTube phenomenon that replaces many of the usual media channels to us. On YouTube, signed at all the top channels, except for the very children. Watching the business channels, "Life BI (znesmena)" and "Transformers."

What is your life motto?

Not to tell anyone about their credo. :)