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 my immature decisions led me to celebrating 18 years of my productivity business?
Nozbe - the productivity app that I founded back in February of 2007 is celebrating 18 years in business. To commemorate the occasion, we bid and won the cover of iMagazine (see below) as all the proceeds from this auction went to charity. So… my Nozbe app is now mature. However, as I’ve been preparing today for this Wednesday’s celebratory recording of the NoOffice FM Podcast, I’ve realized that I’ve been making some very immature decisions on my way to getting here:
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🎙 No Office FM #58: Immature Business Decisions
I’ve been running Nozbe for the last 18 years and very often I made business decisions that were against the “common business sense”, yet they’ve benefited me tremendously. Here are some examples where I just followed my gut and succeeded.
📝 On February 1 `25 I am…
…I’m celebrating 18 years of Nozbe on a weekend with my wife, as we plan our year. I’m so blessed!
🎙 🎬 No Office FM #57: Why I pay people for free Fridays? 4-day Workweek at Nozbe!
This time it’s me solo doing a comprehensive presentation of our Nozbe Mighty Friday policy. How is it that in my company people don’t really work on Fridays and I still pay them and we’ve been doing this for the last 8 years?
🤖 LEGO Ferrari Daytona SP3
I have a long-standing tradition of getting a cool LEGO set each Christmas and in 2023 I got an amazing car - Ferrari Daytona SP3 which is enormous! Almost 4K blocks (3778 to be exact) based on a $2.5M dollar hypercar and this time it took me almost a year to build it as I couldn’t find the time for it. In the end it’s here and it’s gorgeous.
🔗 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:
💼 🤩 ✅ ⭐️ 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:
🎙 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!
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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:
