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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💼 🤩 ✅ ⭐️ Mighty Fridays in Nozbe - for 8 years (2016) we’ve been working only 4 days a week!
Let me tell you how my small but global company Nozbe became a pioneer of the 4-day work week, thanks to Mighty Fridays! We introduced this concept in 2016 and it was so successful that two years later I was invited to talk about it on national Breakfast Television. Which followed many articles in local and national press about our company. What follows below is more-less my speech at a conference WORKsHOW 2025. Here goes:
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🔗 LinkTitle - an easy way to get a title of any page
When you’re working online like I do (“I write random stuff on the Internet”, after all) very often you have to copy and paste links. Also their titles. To make it easy, I decided to create a simple Shortcut that will get the title automatically for me. Feel free to use it, too:
🎙 No Office FM #56: Should You Plan Your Year and How
We’re back with a new episode of the podcast and we’re back with Magda and we’re back with New Year’s Resolutions! This time we give the best tips and tricks necessary for you to get ready for the new year! Enjoy!
🎙 No Office FM #55: Mastering Solo Productivity
Is Nozbe only for teams? Or can you use our tool solo? As a solo-preneur or just a solo busy professional? Let’s find out!
🎧 The Podcast 216 - Michael’s #BackpackOnly lifestyle
This time the AI co-hosts are discussing the recently-updated contents of my backpack and my #BackpackOnly lifestyle. Enjoy for a deep discussion as to why me, a CEO of a successful tech company, likes backpacks!
✔️ 🎱 Nozbe productivity features you probably don’t know about… 🫣
Our app’s simple structure of PROJECTS > TASKS > COMMENTS might be deceivingly simple… but there are many hidden “quirks and features” that can help you get more done!
🎙 🎬 No Office FM #54: You Think You Know All The Nozbe Features?
This time me and Magda geek out on our best quirks and features of Nozbe - our project management app - we show you that despite our simple structure of: projects > tasks > comments, our app has many hidden power features to offer, which will level you up in productivity. Check it out!
📝 On December 6 `24 I am…
…Just finished a Black Friday promo at Nozbe and we’re getting ready for another big push - this Autumn has been very busy!
🕹️ Anker chargers worth buying in 2024
Now that I’ve posted a comprehensive list of things I carry in my backpack and it’s still Black Week on Amazon and in many other places, let’s talk about chargers. Here in Europe there are 3 chargers from Anker worth considering: Prime 100W, 67W and 47W and despite their clear differences in power, in size they are quite similar:
💌 Do you want your team to DOUBLE productivity?
Do you remember when… searching for an important offer for a client you had to plow through emails, company chat, cloud disks… and wasn’t sure it was the right one? Things can be better. Check it out:
🎧 The Podcast 215 - Time is Money
This time AI-co-hosts are discussing my Time is Money essay and I love how they really try to dive deeper into this discussion. I hope you like it, now that this week is all about money, as it’s Black Friday week. Enjoy!
🕹️ ✈️ ⭐️ What’s in my Backpack in 2024/25?
Even though I’ve updated my travel gear list less than a year ago, I’ve upgraded a bunch of smaller and bigger (M4 iPad Pro) things this year, so I think it’s time for yet another update. Especially that this week is a Black Week with lots of good prices. Especially I’m providing Amazon links with my affiliate ID so by clicking on them not only you’ll see the deals but you’ll be also supporting this page. Thanks and enjoy!
🎙 🎬 No Office FM #53: Why Teams Double Their Productivity Thanks to Nozbe
Finally we recorded a podcast episode you can send to your boss. If they have any objections about how and why Nozbe will make the organization and communication of your team better, this episode is answering all of their questions. Check it out!
🎧 📱 The Podcast 214 - Michael’s #iPadOnly setup
Another AI-powered episode where our beloved co-hosts discuss my #iPadOnly lifestyle and especially my two essays: iPad is my most versatile computer ever and how I’m so productive on the iPad. I encourage you to read my blog posts firsts, but the discussion is very entertaining!
💌 Is time really money? How to value productivity?
⏰ Is it possible to say that TIME is in fact MONEY? 💶 Will you make money using an app like Nozbe that saves you 1-4 hours a month?
🙁 💼 ⭐️ I’ve stopped posting on Twitter/X indefinitely
After many months of thinking, deliberating and soul-searching, I’ve decided to finally stop posting on my @MSliwinski account on X (formerly Twitter). If you want to follow me, feel free to do so on Mastodon or LinkedIn. Alternatively sign up for my Newsletter, which I’m sending every 2 weeks. If you’re curious how and why it came to this decision, here goes:
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Hi, I’m Michael Sliwinski, the host of this site. Are you a fellow small business owner? Make sure to give Nozbe a try - my app will help you and your team get your professional and private life organized in a simple way. It’s FREE and you’ll get a bonus of $15 for Premium version by signing up below:
