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 plan my week? Cal Newport’s Weekly Template my way
I started Nozbe because I’m a disorganized person so I needed to keep studying productivity and implementing techniques to stay on track. One of these is a weekly template. I originally took this idea from Michael Hyatt and his ideal week but just recently Cal Newport explained it even better on his podcast. Below are my thoughts and additional notes from Cal’s episode:
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🎙 🎬 No Office FM #48: How to Use Email Productively
The #NoOffice podcast is back and it’s my first episode after the summer and it’s all about email and all the ways to use it productively. Now that you’ve come back to work after your summer holidays, you will want to listen to it as you’re un-piling yourself from email:
🍿 😎 ⭐️ My thoughts have been replaced by “Hamilton” lyrics…
I love musicals and I’m a huge fan of the Hamilton musical since I saw it first in London on West-end in 2019. Later it came to Disney+ with the original cast and the brilliant Lin-Manuel Miranda (see trailer below) and we’ve been having regular screenings with friends and family in our home. Later we took our entire family (including our three daughters) to see the show again on West-end in London in 2022. But that’s not all, as both my wife and me speak German, we even travelled to Hamburg in Germany, to attend a German-version of Hamilton last year. Our entire family is crazy about this show. We listen to the entire soundtrack in the car. And my eldest daughter got herself a shirt that says: “My thoughts have been replaced by Hamilton lyrics” which inspired me to write this post:
✅ 💼 🎬 Set up Nozbe in 5 minutes or less! You can change your company’s habits so quickly!
My app Nozbe is kind-of in productivity space, but now as we serve SMART business owners we are more in habit-changing space. Especially as entrepreneurs realize their companies are becoming successful and need to get organized, they need Nozbe but they tell me they have no time to set it up. That’s why I recorded this short video explaining that you CAN set up yourself and 2 of your closest co-workers in 5 minutes or less, from start to finish:
📝 On August 4 ‘24 I am…
…starting my summer August which means deep work, reading and a family camper RV trip. Need a break after quite a stressful first half of the year.
📱 ⭐️ 5G - 5 reasons for getting a cellular iPad
As an iPad fan, the person who uses iPad as the main computer and who loves working on an iPad and who just happily upgraded to the M4 iPad Pro, I get asked a lot about choosing the best configured iPad for people’s needs. Recently I’ve been asked whether it’s worth it to upgrade to the “cellular” model. My answer in most cases is YES and here’s why:
💌 ✅ 💬 Messages in a productivity app?
At Nozbe we are fans of #asynchronous communication, meaning, it’s not in real-time: you do something - you get feedback later. So why did we include chatting/messaging in our app now? Because #productivity… let me explain:
🎙 🎬 No Office FM is back with #47: Messages in Nozbe
After a long hiatus the NoOffice Podcast is back and it will become a regular podcast starting from September. In this new in-between episode I’m sharing the details behind our latest Nozbe feature: Messages - how they came to be, why we did it, and how we’ve made them productive!
📱 ⭐️ A happy month with 13” M4 iPad Pro - thinness changes the device!
As a devout #iPadOnly user, I’ve posted my first and second impressions of the new iPads but now that I’ve lived with one for almost a month, I can offer a better verdict… and it’s very positive! The new 13” M4 iPad Pro is something else! Here’s why:
✅ ✔️ 🎬 Nozbe is launching Messages - chatting can be productive?
After years of back and forth with our customers and ourselves, we decided to change our opinion on it 180 degrees and add one-on-one chatting/messaging in Nozbe in such a way that it doesn’t impact productivity but makes Nozbe a perfect app for SMART business owners:
💼 🍎 180 degrees opinion change by Steve Jobs
Over the last weekend I’ve been reading a book compiled by the wife of late Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Laurene Powell Jobs: Make Something Wonderful (get it for free on Books) and one of the stories there was about Steve not being afraid to change his mind: “I have changed my position 180 degrees.” and I believe us leaders can learn a lot from it:
🍿 🎬 Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn - Mime version
I’m in London now and just visiting one of the stores I heard Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn song and it reminded me how impactful this song was on my childhood and how I later loved the Mime version of it which is simply hilarious:
💌 🍎 How about playing a long game, Apple?
I’m using my new 13” M4 iPad Pro to write a new essay on Apple called: “Abundance. What if Apple let others compete on their platforms?” where I argue Apple would be better off long-term if they indeed, competed…
🕹️ 🗯 Get yourself Bluetooth sunglasses this summer!
Now that the summer is looming and it’s going to be the hottest summer in the history of mankind, you should be wearing sunglasses. If you’re like me, and you like to listen to podcasts or audio books, consider getting a 2-in-1 - sunglasses with audio Bluetooth for around 30-40 bucks.
⌚️ Apple Watch Ultra Modular as a World Clock
I’m lucky to be running Nozbe - an app used by SMART business owners from all over the world. I live in Europe so I’m based in Central European Time which covers most of Europe, but what if I want to talk to customers from different parts of United States or Asia? Luckily we there is a World Clock app on the iPad and modern calendars support time zones pretty well, but still I wanted to have a handy way to check what the time is now in different time zones.
🍿 🎬 Quotes from Pitch Meetings by Ryan George - the OG of alter-ego genre
My inspiration for Two Michaels arguing, especially as I recorded the videos of Meetings and Impromptu Coffee Meetings, come from the YouTuber Ryan George and I must say I have still a long way to go to learn his craft. Here’s my favorite of his Pitch Meetings and some of the iconic phrases he uses that I still started using in my life, especially when talking to my daughters:
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