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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⭐️ 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.
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✔️ 🕹️ 🗯 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:
🔗 How to manipulate JSON Dictionaries in Shortcuts
I love tinkering with Shortcuts on iPad or iPhone and one of my most powerful one is the Journaling Shortcut. I’m using this to journal every day and turns out other people are also using it and they had some feedback for me. One of the suggestions was to make questions in the Shortcut more customizable. Before I implemented it I wanted to create a proof of concept - how would editing (creating, changing or removing) questions look like? Turns out, it’s not so easy with Shortcuts, but I figured it out.
🎙 No Office FM #86: Calm Productivity with Mike St Pierre
Feeling overwhelmed by endless tasks? Discover the secret to staying calm while getting more done! In this episode I’m joined by a special guest and my good friend Mike St Pierre who shares the qualities of calm productivity—from being flexible and organized to mastering massive projects without the stress. Ready to transform your work life with simple, powerful habits? See how calm — not chaos — can be your ultimate productivity superpower.
📲 🎬 My first dubbed iPhone Air video review - do I still love it?
On Fridays I co-host one of the most popular tech podcasts in Poland, Nadgryzieni with Wojtek and Tomek. With Wojtek we sometimes collaborate on creating extra videos for their Polish YouTube Channel, just like I did for the Mac Mini. This time I reviewed my favorite iPhone Air. I recorded the video in my mother tongue - Polish, so if you are Polish, you’ll hear my voice, but if you’re not, you’ll hear me auto-dubbed by YouTube - what do you think?
🎙 No Office FM #85: From Chaos to Clarity – 10 Books That Changed My Life
In a world that rewards busyness over progress, these 10 books taught me how to slow down, focus better, and create more with less. From the micro improvements of Atomic Habits to the deep 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.
📲 ⭐️ Air - first impressions of the thinnest iPhone ever…
Now that I’ve been living for a little more than a week with the latest iPhone Air as my main phone, how is it? Is it really THAT thin? Does the battery drain quickly? Does it bend or break? Is the (one) camera any good? And how does it compare to my iPhone 15 Pro or the super thin iPad Pro M4? Here goes:
🎙 No Office FM #84: Stop Blaming Tech for Bad Communication — It’s You
Many leaders think that the newest tools and fancy tech will magically fix productivity and make teamwork effortless. The hard truth is that: it won’t. Without a clear communication agreement and shared rules everyone actually follows, even the most expensive apps are just digital chaos in disguise. Here’s what really makes a team click.
📝 On September 26 `25 I am…
…finishing up September and getting seriously ready for the last quarter of this year to make sure I reach my goals for this year!
🎙 No Office FM #83: Small Business, Corporate-Level Chaos – How to Avoid It?
Running a small business and always short on time? Do you feel like you’re drowning in details and don’t know where to start? If you’re looking for a way to finally organize your projects and stop worrying about forgetting something, see why a project management app might be exactly what saves your business and we talk about it based on our notes from an interview with our most successful Nozbe expert: Asia Piechocka
📱 👨🏼💻 ⭐️ How I use Stage Manager in iPadOS18 for maximum productivity and focus
Now that iOS26, I mean: iPadOS26, is upon us with new windowing system, I’m gonna re-cap how I’ve been using “Stage Manager” on the iPad for the last year. From hating it to setting it up right has been a wild ride but I’ve come to a place of optimum productivity on my main computer - the M4 iPad Pro. I’ve decided to write up my thoughts and conclusions right now, before upgrading to the new operating system with a completely new way of managing windows on the iPad. Let’s see if these ideas serve me or anyone in the future.
🎙 No Office FM #82: Vacation Left You Miserable? See How to Fix It!
Our podcast is back! Your vacation is over, but instead of feeling refreshed and motivated, you feel down and drained? You might be experiencing post-vacation blues. See why this happens and how to deal with it. Magda and I discuss the best tips and tricks that will help you reclaim your productivity again!
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