I’ve been helping small business owners and their teams maintain a work-life balance since 2007. I work from home, I don’t email my team, we have few meetings and I don’t work on Fridays!
My projects: ✅Nozbe to-do app and 📖#NoOffice book
Side projects: 🖋Journal, 🎲Dice, ▶️YouTube watcher and 🇺🇦FCKPTN
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✈️ 😎 ⭐️ How I’m enjoying productive Motorhome (RV) holidays every year with my family
Back in 2019 we were tempted by our friends to rent a motorhome for a week and enjoy driving and camping with them in the beautiful country of Sweden. We loved it and after COVID, since 2022 we’ve been renting a motorhome every year for two weeks to visit Scandinavia. It’s become our family tradition. Here are my best tips and tricks when traveling with a family in a motorhome:
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🎧 The Podcast 219 - Journaling or 5 minutes a day that will improve your life
This time the AI co-hosts are discussing my new Journaling shortcut, version 4 and the whole concept of journaling, why it should also matter to more people… potentially, should they dare to try it :-)
🕹️ USB-C all things! Trimmer? Lamp? Glasses?… or why companies should finally drop their own chargers!
For the last two years my most important daily devices have had USB-C ports: iPhone and iPad… and gradually I’ve been migrating from gadgets that require ports like Lightning or micro-USB… I’m now fast-charging the Watch using it’s dedicated USB-C cable (which I’m also using to charge my AirPods)… and as I’ve been enjoying this USB-C lifestyle, I started looking at other appliances that don’t have old-school dedicated chargers but are using USB-C instead! Here are my latest discoveries:
📝 On July 25 `25 I am…
…enjoying a two-week Motorhome/RV holidays with my family, recharging after a very busy first half of 2025!
🎙 🎬 No Office FM #78: Am I a tyrant father imposing productivity on my kids?
Weekly review… or no bedtime story… ?! I’m not that much of a blackmailer with my daughters — but listen to this episode to hear about the rules and good habits I’ve been trying to pass on to my kids from an early age to make their lives easier now and in the future.
🤩 ✅ 🎬 Delightful feature - converting a section or task to a project
I’ve been running Nozbe for the last 18 years and the value of simplicity has always been my northern star. That’s why whenever a Nozbe user finds one of these simplifying features delightful it always makes my day. Watch one of our users and experts!, Mike St Pierre discovering how easy it is to convert a section of a project into its own project in Nozbe with one easy click:
🎧 The Podcast 218 - Michael’s perfect home office and recording studio
AI co-hosts are discussing my Home Office 2025 setup and perfect recording studio with their very cool impressions of how a perfect place to work on Nozbe from home should look like. Enjoy!
✔️ Online Recruitment: What You Didn’t Know About Hiring Remotely
A few lessons from 18+ years of building a fully remote company at Nozbe — and why recruiting for a remote team is completely different from traditional hiring:
😎 🕹️ 📱 My good old iPad 3 is very useful in the kitchen for family Calendars and FaceTime!
Back in April of 2012 I started my #iPadOnly journey with a retina iPad 3. Turns out this 13-year old device can be still pretty useful. A few years back I put it on the wall of my home office but recently I moved it to the kitchen and it’s awesome there:
🏝 🎬 No Office FM #77: We Hire People We’ve Never Met - Remote Recruitment Explained
This week we share our online recruitment secrets! How do you hire for a fully remote team without making costly mistakes? What surprises people who switch from office life to remote work? And how can you trust someone you’ve never met in person? We share it all - check it out!
💻 🎬 ⭐️ How I upgraded M4 Mac Mini to 2TB of storage for a fraction of Apple’s cost?
When I bought M4 Mac Mini for my home office I configured it with 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 512GB of SSD storage, which cost me $300 extra over the base Mini (1G Net and 256GB SSD). I didn’t spend extra $600 for the upgrade to 2TB of storage, because I had a 4TB SSD lying around and I didn’t want to spend the ridiculous money Apple was asking. However, when I heard about a Malaysian company called iBoff which reverse-engineered a 2TB SSD module I was both curious and eager to try it out. So I did spend an extra $280 and pre-ordered a module for myself.
✔️ Still Using WhatsApp to Manage Projects? Here’s Why That’s a Terrible Idea
WhatsApp is great for chatting with friends — not for running a business. Here’s why it’s time to ditch it for good when it comes to project collaboration.
🎙 🎬 No Office FM #76: Why Managing Projects on WhatsApp Is Setting You Up to Fail
Is WhatsApp really a work tool — or just a fast track to chaos? How often do key details disappear into endless chat threads? In this episode, we dive into the hidden risks of using WhatsApp for managing projects and teamwork from a perspective of a productivity nut like myself who loves Nozbe for managing tasks and projects and adores WhatsApp for chatting!
🔗 🏠 ⭐️ Automating Home Office with NFC tags and Homebridge
I’m really proud of my new 2025 Home Office and the way it converts to a recording studio. However, as I was using it I saw some things that needed improving. As a Shortcuts user I like to automate more stuff to make sure I can switch on or off things in the easiest way possible. For that, I needed to use NFC tags and connect some additional lights to Apple Home using the app called Homebridge. Here goes:
🎙 🎬 No Office FM #75: The 5 Minutes a Day That Could Change Your Life
Let’s dive deeper into Journaling and the benefits of doing it consistently. Me and Magda share all the journaling tips and tricks and also talk about my latest Journal 4 shortcut. Let me challenge you to start journaling, today!
🤖 LEGO Lucky Bamboo
This week I celebrated my birthday and I got a “plant” from my wife. She had a brilliant idea that I should get something green to my home office that won’t need much maintenance and will also wake up the child in me. So I got a Lucky Bamboo set (Amazon link).
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