Jobs: Alexey Taranenko, chief editor Rozetka.ua

Occupation and that's all

Best of all my work can describe the word "editor". In the broadest sense. At the moment, I am responsible for the content of the largest Ukrainian and one of the largest in the CIS online store Rozetka.ua. For all of the content from the card catalog to the greatest YouTube-channel for 600 thousand subscribers, which in its category among Russian speakers in popularity is second only to Wylsacom.

This, of course, does not mean that I personally still fill, we have a great team, just above the channel operates more than ten people. I do so that it was all useful, informative and easy to read or watched. Therefore, the position is called the "editor in chief", although the work with texts and edited - it is only the tip of the iceberg. For example, one of the departments - studio, where we remove the clothes on models.

Previously, I could be called a journalist, worked on the project Autoua.net about cars, and even earlier - on the popular Ukrainian sites on the scope of IT - ITC.ua.

Workplace

I have two permanent jobs in the office. One in the version in one studio, in some periods of time spend more time on one, in others - on the second. One constantly mess with which it fails to do, on the other - a sterile procedure. Generally, the mess in the workplace - my old habit, rare attempts to maintain order does not lead to success, lack of strength on the month. Jobs are quite ordinary.

Home recently I try to work less, leaving work at work. Therefore, the beginning of the home workplace be overgrown with flowers.

But I like occasionally to sit somewhere out of the office for a cup of coffee. Setting idle people and hubbub surprisingly well makes me productive wave. Especially if you need to work on the text, instead of playing ping-pong by email, when the managerial functions begin to prevail over the editorial.

In fact, where is my MacBook Air, there workplace.

Sometimes I use an external monitor, but basically I do without him. Of additional peripherals only headphones from mouse gave a long time ago, when I got my first MacBook Pro with "glass" touchpad. Now I look at the mouse as an atavism.

The second working tool is the smartphone Samsung Note 4 times per day traveling on it write more letters than on a laptop. I chose it for the big screen, maximum performance, and excellent, really excellent camera. Once stopped writing about cars and disappeared from the hands of the working-lens reflex camera, the smartphone has replaced me completely homemade camera. Copes even with the shooting of children in the room in the evening, photos are quite decent for the home album, and sometimes for printing.

Houses are no special solutions, too, there is: a dual-band Wi-Fi-router Asus and that's all. Besides Air, lives in a home network more MacBook Pro, the tablet Nexus July 2013 wife and Amazon Kindle Paperwhite eldest daughter. Tablet itself does not use, do not see it needs.

What software use?

Recently circle used software greatly narrowed. If before I tried a lot of things, even one time wrote about the software for Mac and iPhone for different sites, now the list has become very short.

post office

Gmail. As I did not like before some e-mail clients, and, in particular, Mail.app, eventually come anyway to the web interface. So it turned out the most convenient. And now, almost everything I have lived in the browser. From the habit of reading is almost constantly until completely got rid of. But I try not to be distracted by it and messengers during 25-minute service intervals.

Organization of the work edition

Trello. Simple, but very convenient service for the organization of the team. It's not like in appearance to such a system, but it is rather its a plus than a minus. In it we carry cards of articles and videos, follow the terms and exchange comments. We use already seven months, normal flight. Some features are missing, some of them are implemented in the paid version, but still get along. If you have a need for the organization of a group of people - take a look. It can be used as a personal GTD-service.

Personal GTD and time management

Notebook. Nothing is better than paper notes, for myself, I did not find. Several attempts to organize themselves in some services or applications have not been successful, it is back to the warm vacuum tube notebook. Formats vary: sometimes it is the Moleskine, sometimes large pad of the many gifts, sometimes small. But never a classic diary, even though they gave me a dozen. I do not even know why.

However, some software is helping me. This timer "tomato» Pomodoro One and technology Self ControlBlocking social networks, when willpower fails and procrastination reaches alarming proportions.

messengers

Skype, Viber, Adium, FB-chat. Flatten all subscribers in a service has not yet happened and is unlikely to succeed. Skype is more convenient for personal communication, it communicates the same edition, there are several permanent group chats. Viber is captivating as a substitute for SMS, and use on the laptop and smartphone. Adium is needed for the corporate Jabber throughout the company, and FB-chat mainly write for personal reasons, but sometimes at work, with which to contend.

office suite

Working with text suggests a text editor. More and more he sling ink in google Docs (The text, for example), but with the author's texts I prefer to work in MS Office 365. The new beta version for Mac is almost perfect, really like. With all the love to the software Apple, iWork - it's not. Especially the latest version, where some clever person wanted to remove all of the tools in the right pane. Good luck with that. Documents are stored in Dropbox.

other

Editing Pixelmator completely covers my needs for photo editing, even when I rented cars for Autoua.net. Basically all the work with photos was held in Adobe Lightroom. Yes, Lightroom and Photoshop bunch of beautiful, but at the time of subscription to it was not there, and the price seemed to me unnecessarily high for my tasks. But Lightroom - a great tool and a must-have for the photographer.

Music and Video 99% online, for music mainly using "Yandex. Music "and YouTube. But VLC video player for rare cases is still there. Music is not present at all on the disk.

Desk prefer to keep pristine, keep on it only temporary things.

All software used by the license, if the old Toshiba I gradually got rid of the "piratok", but not sure what to get rid of 100%, the new laptop everything exactly. Transfer music listening online "Pirates" also stopped, but with the series and films have not yet obtained, but watch them and not so much.

time management

No specific procedure should not. Pochityval different books, I try to approach to working time consciously. and strategic plan for the three months ahead, as well as weekly and the list of tasks for the day. Basically on paper, as already I wrote above. Personal assistant, if a question about it, no; the heads of departments have to deal with questions, the deputy at the office. Delegation - must, otherwise I will be sewn into smaller tasks, and lose the big picture.

Daily regime

I usually get up at 5:30, if that day there training (such as sports days in the majority of the season), or 7:00, if there is no training and you just need to take the eldest daughter to school. Occasionally Sunday dare to sleep until 8: 30-9: 00 until you wake up younger. I go to usually 23: 00-23: 30, before the birth of the youngest daughter tried for an hour before, now is not it turns out: until all the dust settles, I want some more time to spend with his wife alone, without children. The most productive time is usually - it is the first half of the day and a couple of hours before the end of the working day. The least productive - before lunch and immediately afterwards.

Sport

Through the efforts of glory Baransky and Runner.lfehacker.ru three years ago I had begun to run, not engaged before any sport. Then, all this led me to a triathlon last year, made his first "half» Ironman 70.3 and few starts less: half marathon, an Olympic distance triathlon, cycling race 100 km.

Now the sport - a very important part of my life training to help restart the brains to focus on tasks, think about the goal.

When you spend 3-4 hours at a time on a bicycle, time to think - more than enough. We can not say that the sport is somehow directly affects the productivity and success in work, but indirectly - 100%. For example, long-distance training and taught to follow through even the most difficult and unpleasant task.

training system in cyclic sports are described in a variety of places, I see no reason to repeat. I can recommend the book "Running with Arthur Lydiard"For the very beginners," the Bible triathlete "Joe Friel. But in general, if we are talking about more or less serious training, it is best to consult a trainer. The benefit of professionals with good references there are in Russia and Ukraine, and even in the West, so the more. My velopodgotovkoy in charge of the Center for Yury Ganusyak testing athletes strongly recommend swimming - coach at the local pool, and jogging while remains without a coach.

Important in all this - to draw up a training plan in accordance with their abilities and to follow it. And, for God's sake, do not be carried out on all the "Challenge" in the spirit of Ironman 100-200-300 days. Here, as elsewhere, the right saying "Slow and steady wins - on going."

How do you pass the time in traffic jams?

Fortunately, in Kiev, the situation with traffic jams is not as critical as in Moscow, usually in the way I spend about an hour a day in total. I try to keep an eye on the traffic, and if in the morning all the costs due to an accident, for example, the food at the nearest cafe, where he worked, and then on the open road we reach the work. Fortunately, the schedule allows.

in the car being used in order to think about the plans, reboot, relax after a day and go to the regime of "home". On the way to work I think about plans for the day. Sometimes I listen to podcasts. Any other expectation - in lines, airports and so on - are used to read, mostly books, at least - of pending articles in the Pocket. I read a lot, somewhere 80% fiction and 20% non-fiction. Do not really like many modern non-fiction, where writers spread one main idea in the 600 pages, to look respectable. But from time to time come across an excellent book. Of the latter, like the "Yandex. Book "and"Jony Ive - the legendary Apple designer».

Layfhakerstvo from Alexey Taranenko

books

Since my work in one way or another connected with the word, then I strongly recommend the book by Nora Gal "Word of the living and the dead." Anyone who writes a person would have to read it. On the same theme - "How to write well. The classic guide to creating a non-fiction texts "William Zinsera. And if you think you are a journalist or are planning to become - "Craft" Leonid Bershidsky.

Artworks recommend, perhaps, "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes, but not a story, but a full-fledged novel.

podcasts

Podcasts in my life happen figured, so I advise only English as a Second Language Podcast. A good podcast for English learners, suitable for both novice and command of the language at the secondary level.

I also can not advise draws the probably already on edge over the speech of Steve Jobs to the students of Stanford. No kidding, sometimes I wake up in the morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, I would have been to do what I plan for today?". It really helps to choose the right goals and objectives, try.

And for those interested in the profession of a journalist last advise television series Newsroom. About how all the hard journalism not only in our reality, but also in the United States. Total 25 series, and each is worth your time to it.

configuration dreams

It seems to me that no configuration is not important. The primary productivity in my case, in my head, and the conditions and tools simply do not interfere with normal operation. The laptop does not have to slow down and hang out when there is inspiration, the camera - to lose the pictures and so on. By and large I do not care on what and where to work, as long as the keyboard was comfortable. But a separate room would like to home, while only in the plans.

Finally I tell the story of his life almost a decade ago. At that time I worked in the telecom company, which sold the telephony and Internet services to small and medium-sized businesses. Fond of mobile phones and smartphones, avidly reading all available publications about mobile communications, from time to time catching myself thinking that I understand the topic better than some authors. But I never thought about how to try to write. While this idea is not has lined wife spodvignuv look for jobs. And after a week or two I sat in front of the chief editor of the magazine about the best gadgets in the country, which puzzled looked at the guy, I never wrote anything except a school essay. And yet after two months I was in this magazine staff writer, and has ten years of writing for various print and online publications, although in recent years more and more supervise other workers.

Do not be afraid to try, without it nothing happens. Even if there is only one chance in a thousand, that's more than nothing.