Jobs: Vladimir Kanin, founder and CEO of Pay-Me

Vladimir Kanin - entrepreneur who is over 10 years engaged in business in the field of IT. He holds a Master of Business Administration, behind him a lot of their own business projects, In addition, he is actively investing in Russian start-ups (for example, KidBook project - a children's interactive book).

Layfhakeru Vladimir spoke not only about how "iron" and the software uses, but also about how he managed to lose 35 kilograms in six months. You will also learn life hacking, which uses our guest when working with a paper diary, and get recommendations that should read novice managers and businessmen.

What do you do in your work?

Most of the time it takes to draft Pay-Me (Acquiring a mobile service - the device and a mobile application for receiving bank card payment). We have offices in Moscow, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus, so my typical day - a constant meetings, phone calls, visits.

More is involved in several projects as a mentor or co-investor (though not as much, but on a regular basis). It also takes time. For instance, KidBook - a project of interactive children's books.

How does your workplace?

Houses in office I have is Mac mini (older model additionally upgraded: added the maximum memory and SSD - very nimble machine turned out), it is connected to 27 "Thunderbolt Display. The same monitor is not in the office - very convenient to work with the MacBook Air.

Home router, and there is a data warehouse at a Time Capsule 3 TB. It zavedon Internet 80 Mbit / s, and "air" is heard at approximately the same rate (new taymkapsuly MacBook'i and work 802.11ac protocol - it is very fast).

As far as mobile gadgets, my iPhone 5s, iPad mini - with both the LTE-channels. There are more Android-powered device to test our software sometimes, well, be aware of Android-progress.

What software use?

I have Mac OS 10.9 - came with a laptop and Mac mini.

From third-party (non-Apple) applications using:

• MS Office Excel, Word, Power Roint (for compatibility; although, for example, I try to do new presentations in KeyNote - it is better). Outlook does not use, on a Mac it is very cumbersome.
• Thunderbird - for the mail. Mail began to fall an incredible amount, and the only way to somehow cope with it - it is filters, folders, etc... And still every couple of days, you need to choose the hour and a half, and to sit at the "analysis of debris." At the same time, I have about 10 email accounts, but I do not have problems with spam (but one of the old addresses that hit the spam-lists). Our sysadmin fellows, and services using the apparently good. :)
• 1Password - passwords, notes, logins.
• VLC - "omnivorous" video player.
• VOX - Great powerful audio player.
• Couple cloud DropBox type of customer, Evernote.
• VPN-client NetShade.
• iStat Menus - handy tips in the tray for almost everything (from calendars and time zones, memory usage or internet channel to the CPU temperature, if anyone needs to know it).
• EyeTV - it is for watching TV (I have a USB-DVBT-telereceiver format), if urgent news or ice hockey world championship final, for example.

more recently, for the automation of work processes we have begun to use "Bitriks24". Prior to this was the year of "trial and error": Basecamp tried other products, but settled on "Bitriks24" and very happy.

I almost always online, usually Viber. Skype - only if you work at a computer. Morning I started with watching the news via Feedly.com. You can find more in my Facebook (Here I am most often), at least - in Twitter and LinkedIn. Often I discuss the latest market news and share your opinions in groups in Facebook (NFC & Mobile payments, «National payment system"and iBeacons).

How do you organize your time?

I do not use GTD, is enough calendars to the laptop / smartphone + paper diary.

Mode of the day I have, unfortunately, no. He finally broke a couple of years ago, when it became necessary to run between cities and countries, including China and the US.

In the year that I have about 50–60 flights.

Aviaalyansov of three in the world in my two - gold cards.

More often than not on the plane work, and if not, then I listen to the music (iPad, iPhone - handy to have synchronized the library and playlists) or watch movies and TV shows. The last time on a flight to Los Angeles (it is 12.5 hours in the air) system onboard entertainment (movies, music, flight card) broken before takeoff, and passengers with advanced tablets and Nout amused themselves, and the rest, double re-reading all the newspapers started miss. It is therefore important to departure to download movies to the plate. ;-)

If I am driving a car, you listen to podcasts in English. Rarely can listen to audio books - the announcers read very slowly. If I'm in a jam, but not behind the wheel, work with iPad: e-mail correspondence in instant messengers, etc...

What place sport occupies in your life?

A few years ago I was able to make a breakthrough - for the six months to lose 35 kg. Then it was possible only thanks to the regime (the rise at 7:00, lights out at 22:30), diet (constant counting calories) and exercise.

I have all the free and non-free time spent in the gym - 3–4 days a week. 50 minutes - simulators / 10 minutes - a break; 50 minutes - track / 10 minutes - a break of 50 minutes - a swimming pool.

Instead of film and entertainment were training, instead of relaxing with a cup of coffee - walk.

For people like me, no other way. Now the dream is to repeat this feat is not yet possible.

Is there a place in your paper work?

Use a paper diary, so, you know, "with rezinochkoy" in the box. :)

Spied on their colleagues in the US is a trick: a small stapler to attach to the pages in the diary. Use, and very convenient, especially at a time distance of six months or a year - once you find and contact entries.

Layfhakerstvo from Vladimir Kanin

I recommend reading the following books:

1. «Noble House. A novel about Hong Kong"James Clavel (historical novel; I advise those who have business with Asia or considering it).
2. «7 notes of management. Best Management Practices"(A bit outdated, but still nice).
3. «The Bank 3.0"Brett King (entirely new book in my review).

Is there a dream configuration?

Not enough free time. Under pressure from social networks and other time-killers increasingly difficult to deal with them. What is called life-balance, it becomes more and more valuable. I'd like to unify all communication channels, all in one instant messenger for a device or program.

So readers Layfhakera want to say: do not be afraid of mistakes and defeats.

"For a broken two unbeaten give" - ​​better not say. We need to be afraid to stay sitting on the shore, when the progress of technology and float past you.