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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✔️ 📲 ⭐️ Remove social media from your phone for a better year of 2026
What if I tell you that there is one thing you can do this year that will improve your productivity, help you regain clarity, boost your self-esteem, reduce your anxiety and improve your ability to focus? Yes, you can get better at 5 things by doing just one thing. And it’s not something you have to be doing regularly. You can make a decision once and just stick to it. January of 2026 is the best time to do it. I did it a few months ago. Now it’s your turn:
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💼 🗯 Switching to monthly cadence for No Office podcasts
I love podcasting 🎧 and I’m an avid podcast listener and producer. Even though I’m busy developing my app Nozbe, I love sharing tips and tricks for our clients on the “No Office” podcast. This year, based on the amount of work we have on the app, I’ve decided to lower the frequency of the podcast to just once a month, but I want to make it count!
✔️ 🗯 Why using a physical whiteboard helps me… think!?
🖍️ I’ve had a whiteboard in my #homeoffice for years now and even though I don’t use it daily, I love having it there for those “deep thinking” sessions.
📝 On January 2 `26 I am…
…beginning 2026 with new hopes, dreams and aspirations! I have high hopes for this one!
🎙 No Office FM #89: Forget Hustle: The Secret to High Performance Is KINDNESS with Graham Allcott
Can kindness really boost productivity? And what does true kindness look like day-to-day at work? Tune in — Graham Allcott, author of the award-winning book “KIND: The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work” ((Amazon or Audible), joins us to talk about leadership, culture, and why kindness may be the most underrated business strategy.
✔️ 👨🏼💻 ⭐️ CORE HOURS - how to change the world in 2 hours a day
You’re a busy professional. You are a founder, a business owner, a manager or a team leader and you are great at your job. You’re doing so well in fact, that you feel like your workweek is totally slammed. This is becoming frustrating because apart from managing, delegating and leading, you also need time for focused work. Whenever you want to develop this new idea that’s been bugging you… there’s simply no time to sit down and work on it. I’ve been struggling with a similar problem as the CEO of Nozbe. However, as a productivity nut I’ve been digging through many time management books in an effort to find a solution for this… and I think I’ve got it. I call it CORE HOURS and if you also need help finding time to do your best creative work, here’s how I do it:
⌚️ 🗯 Design is how… Apple Watch doesn’t work?
Design is how it works, right? This used to be Apple. Now they’re managed by Excel-obsessed Tim Cook and designers seemed to have forgotten how stuff works at all. Here’s the latest Apple Watch 26.2 and the “notifications” indicator keeps telling me that I have new notifications even if I’ve seen them all…
🕹️ ✈️ What’s in my USA trip tech pouch in 2025?
This week I’m traveling to the USA on business as I’ve been offered a quite unique opportunity to meet one of my business gurus - Nathan Barry - and record a podcast with him - the Nathan Barry Show. It’s a quick trip as I’m staying in the US for only 3 nights. And it’s a long trek, as I’ll be flying close to 20 hours each way. For this trip I decided to pack ultra-light and get only the most necessary tech:
🕹️ 🗯 Life finds a way… to USB-C with adapters for Braun and Phillips…
Turns out in technology, if you dig deep enough, life… uh… finds a way as Jeff Goldblum would say. After my USB-C all gifts post I got lots of cool suggestions for more USB-C powered gadgets, but I also inspired people to search for solutions to their old appliances. One of my good friends, determined to keep using his Phillips shaver, found an adapter that converts their proprietary charger to USB-C and right after, he sent me one for Braun:
🎙 No Office FM #88: Is Nozbe the Secret to Cutting CRM Expenses?
Do you ever find yourself searching for client information all over the company? Or wondering who last sent an email, prepared a proposal, or scheduled a meeting? Do you need a simple system to manage clients but don’t want to invest in a complicated CRM? In this episode, we show how to use Nozbe as a CRM. Nozbe is a task management app, project management app, and team collaboration app that in practice works perfectly as a lightweight, fast, and effective CRM.
🕹️ 👨🏼💻 ⭐️ My favorite USB-C gadgets of 2025
In one of my earlier blog posts I mentioned that now I’m striving to get USB-C all things, meaning whenever I get a new gadget it must be powered using just a standard USB-C cable. This way I don’t collect useless additional chargers and can always add juice to my devices. Practical and environmentally friendly. Here are my top picks for this year and great ideas for gifts for nerds like me - send this list to your partners, people.
✔️ 🕹️ 🗯 Using a mouse with left hand… is right?
🐭 I’m using a mouse with LEFT HAND, even though I’m RIGHT-handed?! Do you know why?
🎙 No Office FM #87: Intentional Work: How to Rescue Your Productivity
Can you work intentionally while keeping your productivity healthy and pressure-free? How do you find the vision you truly want to pursue—and how do you make sure your system supports it instead of overwhelming you? This conversation will help you rethink productivity from the ground up: aligned with your goals, strengths and energy - not someone else’s expectations.
🔗 Shortcut to Post on Mastodon
I’ve been using Mastodon for more than 2 years now and this is my new place to hang out socially with other nerds as I’m done with posting on Twitter/X. As a heavy Shortcuts user, based on a Shortcut I found on the Internet I built my own one called “🐘 Toot!”.
✔️ 🗯 Kindle before bed instead of iPhone
I’ve recently had trouble falling asleep. 😴 On average I’m sleeping fewer hours than last year. So I decided to fix my “good night” routine by getting rid of my iPhone for the night and changing it for a book read on a Kindle - here’s why…
📖 👨🏼💻 ⭐️ 10 books that changed my life
In a world that rewards busyness over progress, these 10 books taught me how to go fast while slowing down and create more with less. From the micro improvements of Atomic Habits to the focus of Deep Work, from the clarity of Essentialism and The One Thing to the structure of Getting Things Done and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — these ideas reshaped how I think, work and live. Better yet, these books are helping me design my app - Nozbe - that thousands of smart business owners use to get their professional and private life organized in a simple way. Below you’ll find how each of these 10 books impacted me personally and why I come back to them every so often:
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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:
