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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🗓 ⭐️ 2025 review - a year of mixed feelings
It’s the end of January of 2026 so it’s time for my 12th yearly review of the previous year. To me 2025 was pretty stable business-wise but very rocky personally. Luckily nothing really bad happened to me, but to people very close to me, which was (and still is) hard to deal with. The bright spot last year were many quite exciting trips I did with my family. As always, I do these reviews mostly for myself, because to me writing them gives me closure and writing is thinking. Anyway, here goes:
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🍎 🙁 Apple - a company that I used to know…
On Sunday I read a brilliant essay: The Fallen Apple by Matt Gemmell and I encourage you to read it fully… but as I read it, I noticed I had some thoughts of my own inspired by it, so I decided to write them down:
😎 🗯 🎬 What’s next for Doug DeMuro? This!… More of this!
Exactly 10 years ago I wrote a blog post saying, that when people ask me after my success with Nozbe, what’s next for me - I answer - more of Nozbe - next version of Nozbe!
📝 On February 1 `26 I am…
…Celebrating 19 years of Nozbe on a planning weekend date with my wife.
✈️ 💼 How I met Nathan Barry and recorded a podcast with him…
Why not travel half way across the globe to meet your business idol? This is what I did and back in December of last year I had a privilege to be mentored live on a podcast by one of my favorite entrepreneurs - Nathan Barry - founder and CEO of Kit at their recording studio in Boise, Idaho.
💌 💼 ✅ How I calculated new prices for Nozbe that will be introduced in February
In a few days we are going to celebrate 19 years of Nozbe and with this we’re going to be also adjusting our prices (last time was 2,5 years ago). It’s basically an inflation adjustment but as I was preparing the new price list I also took an opportunity to see how we can make the pricing even simpler. Plus, I also hired AI to help me out… which was… interesting. Here’s how I went about it all if you’re curious:
🎙 No Office FM #90: How to Use AI in Your Work
A very packed episode where I talked about how we use AI 🤖 at Nozbe and how we are now incorporating it into our product, after all we’ve learned. ✅ I share a presentation where I explain our usage of AI: research, learning, writing, drafting, translating and coding… 🤓 Best practices when using AI and why you should always verify what it’s doing! 😱 Examples of “creepy AI” or where it’s borderline science fiction now… ☑️ And I finish it off by showing how we’re approaching AI in our product - how we want to make Nozbe smarter and more useful for you thanks to AI. Let me know if you liked this show, how did you like this solo episode and what would you like to hear next from me!
💼 ✔️ 🗯 Podcasts I listen to and recommend
Did you know I spent 228 hours listening to podcasts in 2025? At 1.5x speed? A podcast creator (I co-host NoOffice.FM and Nadgryzieni.pl) is also a podcast consumer. Here are the podcasts I listened to the most and I recommend:
💼 🗯 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!
✔️ 📲 ⭐️ 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:
✔️ 🗯 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:
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