Jobs: Ruslan Burnashev, co-founder Techcrowd
Workplaces / / December 27, 2019
Ruslan Burnashev
Co-founder and managing partner Techcrowd. He graduated from the Kazan Federal University in two specialties. In the past - CEO in KT Labs, Deputy General Director of Pulsar Venture and PwC consultant. In his free time is worth consulting the bar.
What do you do in your work?
I Managing Partner TechcrowdDedicated to management consulting. We are known for IT-products: accounting system working time and increase efficiency "Discipline"And the service for the selection and evaluation of personnel"Team».
We help large companies and organizations to improve the efficiency of how to use organizational measures, and with the help of our products.
What is your occupation?
I originally joined the Economics. But a year later I realized that to study too boring, and additionally entered the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of the evening department. After another six months passed the exam for the first year of early and moved to full-time. So, I graduated from two daily faculty in five years, that says more about the level of requirements, rather than about my abilities.
general subjects (mathematical analysis, philosophy, micro and macroeconomics, and the like) for me were useful first two years of study, that covered. In the remaining three years was more applied subjects that at the time of the study have already largely obsolete.
In general, it was not exactly the most efficient and pleasantly spent five years of my life.
However, my work is related to both my diplomas. Although the profession I have chosen largely by accident. To his first employer was on the recommendation of friends. 16 years, I would like to do business. But I did not fully understand what it means. It turned out that the 19 years I have worked for four years in various consulting companies, in parallel trying to create something of their own. On the third attempt he left something more or less stable. It eventually became "Tehkraudom".
With regard to self, I try always something to learn in the last couple of years. It turns out, but with varying intensity. Basically on iTunes U listen to lectures on various subjects. The latter were Stanford courses cosmology and biology of human behavior (Human Behavioral Biology). In the nearest plans - several courses in physics, astronomy and biology.
In this work we have to deal with a completely different companies and problems, and it is impossible to know everything. More valuable - to be able to quickly understand the problem, identify the important thing is to come up with a solution quickly. The main requirement, as banal as it may sound, - common sense. One must always be able to look at the problem sober, unbiased opinion. It is important to be able to defend a point of view and arguments to explain it to others.
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
I have an addictive personality. I think this is my advantage and my disadvantage. When I was interested, I can spend on something a lot of time and effort. When bored, it is difficult to yourself make.
How does your workplace?
I do not like paper, so they are not often and not for long desktop. Occasionally I use a notebook or drafts to something short record or "to paint" something at the meetings. If the paper at the same time remains something of value, right photograph is on the phone.
The table looks pustovat: on it is a computer and a small notebook. The latter use is very rare. The present seems to came to me two years ago and has not spent even half.
Houses do not work, so there is a special job I have.
In 2007, after the release of Windows Vista and my disappointment in it, I moved on a Mac. Now I have - 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina. Tried, it seems, all output of the model, and this, in my opinion, the perfect balance between mobility and performance. At work, I use Thunderbolt Display. I pleased with him, waiting for Retina-only version.
Every day wear with iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
Since the first iPhone model use. Now I - iPhone 6 Plus. I am thinking that it will help reduce the need for iPad due to the big screen. Following the results of half a year of use - did not work, still wearing the tablet with you. Therefore, I plan to move to a smaller size and a larger tablet phone.
iPad is also the first model now - iPad mini 3. In recent years I began to actively use it to input information, and the size was not enough. I plan to go to the Air. Mainly I used for reading (Kindle, iBooks, Newsstand). Paper books and magazines do not read at all. In the context of using the tablet for reading long letters, notes, plus at times convenient to show identification at the meetings.
Almost from the exit take Apple Watch. Primarily for alerts. It is interesting that despite the fact that the clock is constantly pushat, I'm not distracting as to view all notification normally again. In this case, it is convenient to switch or layknut track path.
For two years, I use headphones Parrot Zik. Very satisfied. Good sound and no wires allow you to listen to music or lectures frequently. After the acquisition has become more likely to use headphones.
Actively using the mail, calendar, instant messengers (Telegram and Slack), google Drive, notes. For non-business needs - music, photos, banking, Facebook, Twitter, iTunes U.
According to the balance about such programs.
- Browser. On your computer - Google Chrome. Choice is largely due to the active use of Google Drive, which works best for Chrome. On phones and tablets - native Safari.
- Mail client. For a long time I enjoyed a bunch Mailbox on the iPad and iPhone and Sparrow on a Mac. After closing Sparrow while popolzovalsya Mailbox for Mac, but because of its long development and beta status went everywhere in Mail. Overall satisfied: easy integration with the clock, you can quickly see the letter.
- messengers. Telegram - for all, Slack - to communicate with the team as a mandatory working messenger.
- Information storage, office suite. Since 2010, the company use Google Apps. Very satisfied: all documents in one place, easy collaboration, review. Google Drive for Google Apps is very easy to use and almost completely covers the requirements for editing documents. In rare cases, the use MS Office for some non-trivial format.
- Calendars and planners. «Google Calendar" through web interface and through native applications on mobile devices. Reminders - Reminders for. "Bitriks24" - for work tasks.
What is in your bag?
Briefcase Camel Active, purchased at the beginning of 2011. Tacky in appearance, but is regularly.
This year, I modified it, podsmotrev idea from Hard Graft: added the ability to turn the belt straps of the backpack. This made it even more convenient. (For a long time I want to go on the bag Hard Graft 2PACBut it's not decisive. With new course sorry for the money.)
Portfolio surprisingly roomy, so I use it as an everyday bag for travel (and not very far). I am very active move between Kazan and Moscow - about 30 flights there and back in a year. The contents of the bags tested, but still regularly something is added or lost.
Daily portfolio contents (from left to right, top to bottom):
- Headphones Parrot Zik with a cable to connect them, if suddenly charging ends (happens every two to three months). The cable is useful for Skype calls from a computer, not to include on the Bluetooth.
- The 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina, iPad mini 3.
- iPhone and Apple Watch - usually in the pocket and on the arm, respectively.
- Umbrella and gloves. I do a lot of walking on foot, it is come to the rescue.
- Charging for MacBook, iPhone / iPad, Lightning cable, the microUSB (headphone) cable, watch the cable (take in a trip until they bought a second).
- Drafts A4.
- SD-flash card to 128 GB for photos and large files, since I can not upgrade the laptop up to 512 GB.
- Keys to the Moscow and Kazan apartments, the housekeeper with all sorts of rarely used but need the keys (office, bar, etc.).
- A pen. Periodically changing any of the simplest.
- Domestic and foreign passport in one pouch
- Bank cards, discount cards. I carry with me literally three or four things that I really use. Experience has shown that the best way to store them - easy money for the gum. Little space and convenient to show the two most commonly used.
- Coupons for free coffee in the "McDonald's". :)
Periodically in the bag there are some papers and documents, but they do not stay there for long. When traveling long distances to all this is added to the minimum set of clothes for three days, which was successfully placed in the "dimensionless" portfolio.
How do you organize your time?
I do not see the point in time management. I think one of my achievements of the last time - the refusal of the daily alarm, which is contrary to the ideas of time management. But does my day much more enjoyable. I think that many time management does more harm because of the stress associated with all the rules, and constant tension than benefits from the organization.
Planning for the day using «Google Calendar" and linked to it calendars on mobile devices. There are recorded all the meetings. For small tasks - Reminders. Very comfortable were his reminders geolocation: binds to the office, home and bar.
The last few years I manage to delegate a large part of the tasks. I think it's better to put up with a possible decline in the quality and focus on the really important issues, passing the rest colleagues, doing everything yourself, and do not have time to process.
What's your daily routine?
I can not be attributed either to themselves larkNor to the owls. Can one week to get up at six or seven in the morning, and in the next seven days to go to bed at two in the morning and wake up at nine or ten in the morning. My only morning ritual - a breakfast, do not miss it, I almost never. For the breakfast, I am ready to sleep an hour less, even if it's four o'clock instead of five.
Almost never work on weekends. On weekdays, the duration of the working day can vary from three to four hours (if there is no urgent tasks) to 12-14 (if you have something really important). During the day, the performance varies. I am unproductive about 16:00 and 20:00.
How to pass the time in traffic jams?
In traffic jams almost never held in Kazan or Moscow, as I live in the center, and rarely go out during rush hour.
Due to frequent flights of had to optimize the time at the airport or on the road. I arrive at the airport a little earlier, at least 30-minute reserve, and use this time productively rather: to work, read, listen to music, or lectures. Airplane and express - the same thing. Great help iPad and iPhone.
What's your hobby?
My main hobby today - small cocktail bar in Kazan. I usually end up there a day at the bar on Friday and Saturday.
20 years I wanted to have a "catering". Last year, the opportunity to do it, did not miss it. Of fun: the bar was somehow more of leads for the main business, but contracts do not seem to come down.
What place sport occupies in your life?
The last eight years I regularly visit gyms. As a result, he organized a small room of the house. It is very time-saving. Now she is a 40-minute workout, and in view of the soul, and the like - 50-55 minutes. In the case of the hall, where it was necessary to go, it came out half an hour.
Went through various applications for training, now I use Fitness Point. I can not say that he was satisfied by 100%, but the basic needs closing.
Winter going to try cross-country skiing.
Layfhakerstvo from Ruslan Burnasheva
- Movies and Series. In the movie I happen five or six times a year and bad in it I understand. Of the series only watch Game of Thrones, despite the fact that I have read all the books. On the other somehow it does not happen. Boring, then one season does not go away.
- Podcasts and videos. I love everything Leonard Susskind lectures on iTunes U. Charismatic, with appropriate humor and fun, easy to understand. By the way, many of them can be listened to at a speed of 1.5, as it says quite slowly.
- Blogs and Websites. Regularly I read the "Vedomosti" as the most objective and impartial news source. Used to use RSS. Now I moved to Facebook as an aggregator, remove all uninteresting.