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 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.
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🎙 🎬 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!
✔️ 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).
🎂 46 and appreciating life more than ever!
Today I’m turning 4️⃣6️⃣ which brings me closer to fifty years of age than I care to admit. However, after a very tough last year business-wise and witnessing death of a close friend earlier this year, I’m just enjoying each day and making sure I appreciate it when I’m journaling each morning.
✔️ Vacation Stress? Here’s What You NEED to Handle Before You Go
Vacation is coming up and your to-do list is overflowing? Find out how to delegate tasks effectively and get everything in order so you can actually relax while you’re away.
⌚️ ✈️ Apple Watch face for my USA trip
Recently I was traveling in the USA and to make sure I knew what time there was in my time zone back in Europe and in the states I was visiting California, Arizona and… Utah. I created a new watch face combining the World Clock and Summer Face which resulted in my “USA Watch face”:
🖋 🔗 ⭐️ Journal 4 Shortcut - evening practice, morning gratitude and daily planning - upgraded!
It’s been almost a decade since I started journaling regularly and I’ve been tweaking my way of doing it almost every year. Today I’m happy to walk you through my latest version of Journaling Shortcut which has been years in the making. If you ever thought about starting journaling, today is the day. Get the free iOS/Mac Shortcut below and start your daily journaling practice like me. You’ll feel better, you’ll be more productive and you’ll act with more clarity every single day.
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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:
