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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🕹️ ✈️ ⭐️ What’s in my Backpack in 2024/25?
Even though I’ve updated my travel gear list less than a year ago, I’ve upgraded a bunch of smaller and bigger (M4 iPad Pro) things this year, so I think it’s time for yet another update. Especially that this week is a Black Week with lots of good prices. Especially I’m providing Amazon links with my affiliate ID so by clicking on them not only you’ll see the deals but you’ll be also supporting this page. Thanks and enjoy!
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🕹️ 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!
🎙 🎬 No Office FM #53: Why Teams Double Their Productivity Thanks to Nozbe
Finally we recorded a podcast episode you can send to your boss. If they have any objections about how and why Nozbe will make the organization and communication of your team better, this episode is answering all of their questions. Check it out!
🎧 📱 The Podcast 214 - Michael’s #iPadOnly setup
Another AI-powered episode where our beloved co-hosts discuss my #iPadOnly lifestyle and especially my two essays: iPad is my most versatile computer ever and how I’m so productive on the iPad. I encourage you to read my blog posts firsts, but the discussion is very entertaining!
💌 Is time really money? How to value productivity?
⏰ Is it possible to say that TIME is in fact MONEY? 💶 Will you make money using an app like Nozbe that saves you 1-4 hours a month?
🙁 💼 ⭐️ I’ve stopped posting on Twitter/X indefinitely
After many months of thinking, deliberating and soul-searching, I’ve decided to finally stop posting on my @MSliwinski account on X (formerly Twitter). If you want to follow me, feel free to do so on Mastodon or LinkedIn. Alternatively sign up for my Newsletter, which I’m sending every 2 weeks. If you’re curious how and why it came to this decision, here goes:
🎧 The Podcast 212 - Michael’s Weekly Template
Me and Radek are no longer recording the podcast together, but I decided to try this new AI tool from Google: NotebookLM to generate a podcast conversation between two AI co-hosts about my weekly template. It turns out the conversation blew my mind 🤯 and I decided to post it as a new episode:
🎙 🎬 No Office FM #52: Time Is Money. How to Make Money by Being Well Organized?
Let’s discuss my latest featured article: Time is Money and explain why the math checks out and how Nozbe is making you money if you’re using it well!
🙁 🎬 Why USA re-elected a convicted felon, liar, racist and simply the worst of men?
Today is Monday, November 11, it’s Independence Day in my home country of Poland yet I’m still thinking about the US elections last week and I’m trying to process what happened. Billionaires called it and despite smart people warning against it, America knew how awful Trump was, yet re-elected him. I think Jon Stewart said it best:
😎 New York Times warns against Trump while Harrison Ford makes a stand for Kamala Harris and democracy
Yesterday I wrote about billionaires and their newspapers like Washington Post or LA Times not having the freedom (or guts) to endorse Kamala Harris. Shame on them. Today New York Times posted a great paragraph showing why we have to get rid of Trump and aspiring autocrats like him once and for all:
😎 🙁 ⭐️ Unlike you and me, billionaires are not free despite their fortunes
How is it possible, that two wealthiest people on the planet, with all the billions that they have, are not free to do whatever they want? Elon Musk not only destroyed the value of my beloved social media platform, Twitter (now X), but was jumping at a Trump rally. Jeff Bezos who owns Washington Post, blocked their endorsement for Kamala Harris. Billionaires, unlike us, are not free, because they have too much to lose.
💌 Why Task-Based Communication rocks? 🎸✅
…or simply follow my 5 tips on how to delegate work better & discover yourself why at Nozbe we don’t use emails internally but simply… create tasks:
🎥 Team Productivity Podcast re-started with NotebookLM!
I’ve officially joined the AI craze and finally started testing many AI tools consistently. One of them is NotebookLM which lets you create “notebooks” where you feed it with documents, sources, data and it summarizes things for you or answers your questions… or creates a podcast! Now, that last bit is really interesting and I’m using it now to publish a podcast based off of my writing:
✔️ ✅ ✏️ ⭐️ Time is Money. Or how Nozbe is basically printing cash!
Last week, I had an interesting conversation with a fellow entrepreneur whose app is focused on marketing services. We talked about pricing, value and ultimately why people buy (or not) subscriptions to our apps. He pointed out that benefits of using Nozbe are not monetary unlike what he’s offering (bringing businesses leads that convert to revenue). After our conversation I was feeling confused. What about the old saying that time is money? Exactly!
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