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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🤩 ✅ ⭐️ Being mentored by Nathan Barry on growing Nozbe!
What it’s like seeing your business through the eyes 👀 of a successful entrepreneur you respect and have been following for years? The opportunity of being mentored by Nathan Barry was the highlight of the end of last year for me! It was a very candid and open conversation. It was also humbling to admit some of my mistakes and limiting beliefs. Enjoy!
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🎧 The Podcast 220 - Ten books that shaped my business 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. A few months back I shared my 10 favorite business books of all time - and now listen to the Google’s Notebook LM co-hosts discussing these books in more detail, enjoy!
📝 On March 11 `26 I am…
…setting goals for the next quarter of 2026 which is going to be really exciting!
✅ 🗯 What is the promise of Nozbe? Why should I sign up?
PROMISE? ✅🙏 Why Nozbe? Why not other apps? What’s the promise of the app I’m offering? When Nathan Barry asked me this question on the interview I didn’t really know what to answer at first… but then we got it soooo right…
👨🏼💻 ✔️ ⭐️ How the 2-minute rule can drastically reduce your administrative tasks…
In David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” book, the author, while explaining his “GTD” concept, establishes a 2-minute rule, saying that if something can be done in less than 2 minutes, do it now. Don’t even write it down, just do it. Seems obvious, right? Well, even though I’ve known about this rule for years, recently I re-discovered it and was amazed at how much it has improved my productivity and reduced the time I spend on administrative tasks to a minimum. If you also feel like you could use that kind of improvement, read on…
🎙 No Office FM #91: It’s Not Just a Few Lines of Code
You’re a Nozbe user or you’re using any other app that you really like and as you use it you have a great feature idea and you’d love to see it in the app as soon as possible because you truly believe it would make things better… Today, we’ll show you what the real journey looks like — from a user request to a finished feature — and why it’s almost never just a couple of lines of code for a good programmer…
🔗 💼 Simple Shortcut to post Carousel images to LinkedIn
On Friday I posted the LEGO build of my Pixar Lamp and today I was wondering how I was going to share it on social media, especially on my LinkedIn and then I realized that I could use my Tinify Shortcut to create image files in a LinkedIn carousel format (1350 x 1080) and later “glue” them together as a PDF.
🤖 ⭐️ Lego Pixar Luxo Jr lamp with LED lights
Last Christmas I didn’t know which kind of LEGO set to get myself and then when searching for a gift for my nephew in a toy store, I found this Lego set #21357 with 613 pieces and I got it for myself. Then I searched up an LED set from BrickBling and had a perfect Xmas gift 🎄🎁 - here’s how I built it and hooked it up to my home office automation:
🏝 🗯 Instead of organizing an all-hands-meeting, start vlogging!
Tempted to call a whole-team meeting? DON’T DO IT! Become a vlogger instead. Not on YouTube or TikTok. Not for the public. For your all-team audience. My beloved 15 subscribers.
🍿 🎬 Even John Oliver is quitting… Twitter
My favorite British comic, the host of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is back and I love it how he analyzed why not only me but also him:
✅ ✔️ 🗯 First day back from vacation? Clear Incoming tasks!
First day back from VACATION? 🏖️ I have only one job - to clear my “Incoming” view in Nozbe - I had almost 100 tasks there… and on Monday afternoon I have NOTHING. ZERO. ZIP. NADA.
✔️ 👨🏼💻 ⭐️ How to boost your productivity using AI?
Everyone’s talking about AI these days. Artificial Intelligence. It’s everywhere – on the news, in podcasts, at dinner parties. While the concept has been around since the Terminator movies which scared us into thinking machines would take over the world, it wasn’t until ChatGPT burst onto the scene a few years ago that AI became something we could actually touch, play with, and use in our daily lives. In this article I’ll be sharing my own experiences using AI and how at the end of the day, I believe it’s an amazing productivity booster.
😎 🗯 Skiing and thinking long term…
How has my long term thinking impacted my attitude towards skiing? Yes, seriously, there’s a connection and a good one!
🏝 💼 🗯 Hiring people who don’t want to move away…
🤝 Can a small business get better talent than a big corporation? Hell yes! What if location limits your opportunities, but NOT your ambition?
🏝 🗯 Are we a serious company if we work remotely?
🤔 Does a business only look serious if people are physically visible in the office? If they work from home they’re not professionals anymore?…
🏝 😎 Are you working even when you’re sick?
🤒 Sick in bed with your laptop 🧑💻 on your lap? Working through fever and flu? Working from home when sick? Should you, or should you not? 📅 Today, February 11 is World Day of the Sick. It feels like a good moment to talk about something uncomfortable about remote work.
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