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 top 10 home office gadgets in 2026
I work from home. Just like the rest of my Nozbe team. We all work from our homes. That’s why I’ve been tweaking my home office almost every year since 2008 and documenting it on my blog. Now it’s time for the 2026 edition where I’m going to approach it differently than usual. As my home office 2025 has changed only slightly, I’m going to list the top 10 gadgets that make it a great place to work for me. Only some of them are new, but most have survived many years of service and are still great today. Here’s the list:
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🎬 AI co-hosts trying to prove they are human?
How about AI generated co-hosts trying to prove they’re real? Yesterday I posted a new episode of “The Podcast FM” where the NotebookLM-generated co-hosts were commenting on my essay about AI productivity. When they got to the bit about me using them to generate an automatic podcast episode, they were trying to prove they were real people… 🤪
🎧 The Podcast 223 - AI productivity
Can AI - Artificial Intelligence - become a productivity booster? Oh yes. From an AI skeptic, I’ve been slowly embracing it and incorporating it into my daily work. I’ve shared my experiences in an essay and today I’ve asked the AI co-hosts to talk about them for you. I hope that inspired by this conversation you’ll also start embracing AI to boost your own productivity! Enjoy.
🔗 Apple Frames Shortcut modified for the iPhone Air
Update on April 13,2026: A week after I posted this, Federico posted a new version of his Frames Shortcut which supports iPhone Air, so this post is out of date. Here’s my old post: Over many years I’ve been using the great Apple Frames Shortcut from the MacStories Shortcuts Archive by Federico Viticci to post screenshots from my iPhone on this blog. He’s done a great piece of work with this free Shortcut, which I truly appreciate and I’m grateful for. However, he hasn’t updated it for the iPhone 17 series, which also means I couldn’t use it with my beloved iPhone Air. So I hacked it:
📝 On April 3 `26 I am…
…”big” in Japan 🇯🇵 admiring cherry 🍒 blossoms 🌺 and Mt Fuji and seeing if we can promote Nozbe here better, just like I used to.
🎧 The Podcast #222 - Core Hours Framework in practice
If you’re a busy entrepreneur, manager or team leader, I’m sure your workweek is totally slammed. Between managing, delegating and leading, you also need time for focused work. There’s simply no time to sit down and work on this brilliant new idea that’s been bugging you. 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 and systems in an effort to find a solution for this… and I think I’ve got it. I call it CORE HOURS and now you can just listen to the AI co-hosts explaining this idea to you in a short podcast, enjoy!
🎙 No Office FM #92: How to Organize Your Whole Life in Nozbe
Do you think Nozbe is just for work? Not even close. In this episode, we show how you can organize your entire life — from projects and clients to home, health, and trips — all in one place, without chaos. That’s why we launched the special offer for your personal space.
✅ How about taking care of your personal tasks?
Let’s give away half a year!? Well… we’ve decided to do an experiment at Nozbe and offer our Premium users and their team members a special promo for their SECOND workspace - if they upgrade it for 6 months, we’ll add another 6 months to it!
💌 Newsletter: Working From Home Is the Best!
Every now and then, someone publishes an article claiming that working from home is bad and you should definitely go back to a “normal” office. I’ve read them all. And every time, I find the same recycled myths — so let me bust them, one by one. Based on an essay I wrote almost a decade ago
🎧 The Podcast #221 - Remove Social Media Apps from your Smartphone
Time for a challenge! Should you choose to accept it, you have a shot at receiving these 5 benefits: (1) improve your productivity, (2) regain clarity, (3) boost your self-esteem, (4) reduce anxiety and (5) improve your ability to focus! What’s the cost? Just remove social media apps from your smart phone! I know it sounds drastic, but hear me out - I’ve written an essay about it but today I strongly encourage you to listen to the AI co-hosts diving deeper into the subject and proving that this can be done!
✅ 🗯 The habit of writing down boosts your team’s productivity!
📝 Why writing things down matters? 💬 Why we spend time commenting on tasks? ✅ Because just a short paragraph TODAY can save you and your team MINUTES or HOURS of pointless conversations tomorrow! Yes, seriously!
🎧 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…
🤩 ✅ ⭐️ 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!
👨🏼💻 ✔️ ⭐️ 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…
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