Archive of posts by Michael Sliwinski

This is the full archive of my personal blog all the way back from 2008… For fun, check out a random post. I’m mostly active here but every now and then I also write in my mother tongue (Polish).

Alternatively you can click on one of the tags to browse my writing by topics.

2024

December

🎧 The Podcast 216 - Michael’s #BackpackOnly lifestyle

✔️ 🎱 Nozbe productivity features you probably don’t know about… 🫣

🎙 🎬 No Office FM #54: You Think You Know All The Nozbe Features?

📝 On December 6 `24 I am…

November

🕹️ Anker chargers worth buying in 2024

💌 Do you want your team to DOUBLE productivity?

🎧 The Podcast 215 - Time is Money

🕹️ ✈️ ⭐️ What’s in my Backpack in 2024/25?

🎙 🎬 No Office FM #53: Why Teams Double Their Productivity Thanks to Nozbe

🎧 📱 The Podcast 214 - Michael’s #iPadOnly setup

💌 Is time really money? How to value productivity?

🙁 💼 ⭐️ I’ve stopped posting on Twitter/X indefinitely

🎧 The Podcast 213 - Michael’s Weekly Template

🎙 🎬 No Office FM #52: Time Is Money. How to Make Money by Being Well Organized?

🙁 🎬 Why USA re-elected a convicted felon, liar, racist and simply the worst of men?

😎 New York Times warns against Trump while Harrison Ford makes a stand for Kamala Harris and democracy

😎 🙁 ⭐️ Unlike you and me, billionaires are not free despite their fortunes

October

💌 Why Task-Based Communication rocks? 🎸✅

🎥 Team Productivity Podcast re-started with NotebookLM!

✔️ ✅ ✏️ ⭐️ Time is Money. Or how Nozbe is basically printing cash!

🎙 🎬 No Office FM #51: Why me and Magda are crazy about Task-Based Communication?

🔗 🍎 Apple Shortcuts and problems with IFs and blanks

⌨️ 🔗 Use Tinify (TinyJPG and TinyPNG) to compress your images

⌚️ Apple Watch face for the Summer and weekends

💌 ✔️ 7 reasons why good habits are important

🎙 📱 🎬 No Office FM #50: Small Habits - Big Wins

September

💌 Why batching & grouping tasks is good for your productivity?

📱 🔗 How to download YouTube videos using YT-DLP and a-Shell on the iPad

✅ 🔗 New To Do - official Nozbe Siri Shortcut for iOS and Mac

📲 ⌚️ ⭐️ Year later - iPhone 15 Pro and Apple Watch Ultra 2

🎙 🎬 No Office FM #49: Contexts or Tags - How to Work Smarter By Batching Tasks

💌 How to use emails productively?… and have less of it?

📝 On September 11 `24 I am…

✔️ ⭐️ How I plan my week? Cal Newport’s Weekly Template my way

🎙 🎬 No Office FM #48: How to Use Email Productively

August

🍿 😎 ⭐️ My thoughts have been replaced by “Hamilton” lyrics…

✅ 💼 🎬 Set up Nozbe in 5 minutes or less! You can change your company’s habits so quickly!

📝 On August 4 ‘24 I am…

July

📱 ⭐️ 5G - 5 reasons for getting a cellular iPad

💌 ✅ 💬 Messages in a productivity app?

🎙 🎬 No Office FM is back with #47: Messages in Nozbe

📱 ⭐️ A happy month with 13” M4 iPad Pro - thinness changes the device!

✅ ✔️ 🎬 Nozbe is launching Messages - chatting can be productive?

💼 🍎 180 degrees opinion change by Steve Jobs

June

🍿 🎬 Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn - Mime version

💌 🍎 How about playing a long game, Apple?

🕹️ 🗯 Get yourself Bluetooth sunglasses this summer!

⌚️ Apple Watch Ultra Modular as a World Clock

🍿 🎬 Quotes from Pitch Meetings by Ryan George - the OG of alter-ego genre

🎥 🏝 🎬 ⭐️ Impromptu coffee meetings in a remote team? Two Michaels argue!

May

📱 ✔️ ⭐️ How can I be so productive on the iPad?

🍿 ⭐️ “I have spoken” and “this is the way” - The Mandalorian

🎂 45 and yet another iteration of Michael

📱 Second impressions of the all-new M4 13” iPad Pro - it’s thin and light!

🎥 🎬 ⭐️ 12 new shorts: health, donating blood, core values, lego and my several takes on meetings!

💌 💼 ✅ Free trials are a waste of everyone’s time

📱 🍎 New iPad Pros announced - first impressions!

📲 🕹️ ⭐️ Perfect iPhone 15 Pro case is… Peak Design? Spigen? Mous? Pitaka?…

🔗 📲 ⭐️ Clipboard Manager using Shortcuts for iOS - perfect for iPhone 15 Pro Action Button

April

🏝 Visiting a city is an opportunity to reconnect with people, especially if you’re working remotely

📝 On April 29 ‘24 I am…

🤩 On Coffee Journeys about lessons from traveling with kids, earthquakes and intentional use of technology

🎥 🎬 💌 ⭐️ 3 meetings per week or less?… - how two Michaels argue about managing people

🎥 ✈️ 🎬 ⭐️ Productivity videos from Taiwan

🕹️ ⭐️ Drone is a way to get super footage - DJI Mini 3 Pro review

March

🍎 💼 For Developers to win Apple doesn’t have to lose - why Tim Cook should listen to Steve Jobs

🎥 🎬 ⭐️ Subscribe to my new “Michael Team” YouTube Channel for daily productivity tips and tricks - my first 10 videos!

💼 ✅ 🎥 🎬 Two Michaels walk into an office… and argue if virtual meetings are real!

💻 How I upgraded old iMac and MacBook Pro to the latest MacOS giving them a second life!

🏝 ⭐️ Forget 9-5 and embrace modern flexible workday for everyone, not just the bosses!

February

💌 Are you a SMART business owner? Do you believe in what we believe?

🔗 ⌚️ WatchNotes - multiple notes on an Apple Watch!

😎 ✈️ 🕹️ ⭐️ My family car turns 7 today and there are 7 things I still find awesome about it

😎 🕹️ Time for reading glasses

✅ 💼 ✏️ ⭐️ Nozbe - app for SMART business owners and teams - turns 17!

January

🗓 ⭐️ 2023 review - just keep iterating!

💌 ✔️ 🔟 Steps To Ultimate Productivity At Work

🤖 Building R2D2 Star Wars Lego robot which I got last Christmas

🕹️ ✈️ ⭐️ What’s in my backpack and tech pouch in 2024?

2023

December 2023

🔗 Roll the Dice Shortcut for your iPhone or Apple Watch!

📝 On December 25 ‘23 I am…

💼 🎬 ⭐️ Jeff Bezos and Day 1 thinking and truth seeking

📖 This is marketing by Seth Godin - (audio) book of the week

🔗 ⌚️ 🗯 How to use iMessage for note taking on the Apple Watch?

⌚️ 🗯 How to re-enable swipe gesture between watch faces in Apple Watch OS 10.2

🔗 ⌚️ WatchNote Siri Shortcut - how to add and view a note on Apple Watch Ultra without an iPhone!

🤖 Building Bugatti Chiron Lego set back in 2018/19

November 2023

⌚️ 📲 🔗 ⭐️ Action button Siri Shortcut for your iPhone 15 Pro and Apple Watch Ultra

🔗 ✅ Adding tasks to Nozbe with Email or Siri Shortcuts - even from Apple Watch!

💌 Why it’s important to define your team’s CORE VALUES?

💻 ⭐️ History of my 10 laptops - from 2000 and Compaq, Fujitsu, Toshiba, ThinkPad through 2008 with Apple MacBooks until now!

📲 9 reasons why I ditched my beloved iPhone 13 Mini for the 15 Pro

⌚️ Why a small-wrist guy switched to Apple Watch Ultra?

✅ ⭐️ Nozbe Core Values: Passion, Simplicity, Freedom and Fairness

October 2023

💌 What I’ve learned after 7 years of daily journaling?

🖋 📱 🔗 ⭐️ Journaling Shortcut version 3 - simplified, improved and with Apple Notes support

📝 On October 13 ‘23 I am…

📖 A Shot To Save The World by Gregory Zuckerman - (audio) book of the week about the mRNA tech that saved millions of lives

September 2023

💌 ✅ Why at Nozbe we’re giving away free productivity consultation?

🎙 🎬 No Office FM #46: Roles of Founders in a Software Company

🍎 📲 😎 How iOS17 will finally let me digitally split from my wife? New setup for iFamily in 2023!

📱 ⭐️ Why I must work on the iPad - the most versatile computer ever - M1 iPad Pro 13” review after 2 years

💼 ✅ ⭐️ How we work on features and deploy Nozbe app weekly… while eating dog food?

August 2023

🖋 😎 🔗 ⭐️ Practice Gratitude every day to be happy, fulfilled and calm with this Siri Shortcut

July 2023

📝 On July 7 ‘23 I am…

💼 ✅ ⭐️ Evernote - why I love(d) it, how it almost acquired Nozbe and what’s next for your “external brain”?

June 2023

🌎 ✅ On Nozbe blog: Nozbe Pricing Changes

💌 3 takeaways from Nozbe pricing saga

✅ ⭐️ Nozbe - a trusted productivity system for life

💼 ✅ ⭐️ Pay-less upgrade - how to make plan changes for your SaaS customers completely effortless

🎙 🎬 No Office FM #45: Apple Vision Pro: A Revolutionary Leap in Productivity

🕹️ 💻 🤖 Logitech ERGO K860 keyboard review with a custom-made LEGO stand for Apple Trackpad

💼 ✅ ⭐️ 5 principles for designing a pricing scheme for SaaS companies - how to charge per user with savings and fairness in mind

🕹️ ✈️ 🍎 ⭐️ AirTags on cars and people - how not to lose either of them!

💌 Sharing is caring - or how my blog became a backstage of running my company, Nozbe!

💼 ✅ 3 compliments my customers gave me this past week: worth, investment and understanding

💼 ✅ Nozbe pricing changes - how to raise prices, reward long-time customers and bet on the future

✅ Internal Nozbe Vlog, May 2023 - or how I communicate with my team using video

💼 ✅ ⭐️ Why choose Nozbe? Who is Nozbe for? What really is Nozbe?

🤖 ✅ Nozbe logo as a Lego mosaic - a fantastic gift from Augusto Pinaud!

May 2023

🎂 44 and clarity of vision

🕹️ 😎 Lifehack: Baking soda and super glue - how to fix almost anything!

🏠 📱 ⭐️ Home Office desk rearrangement - flipping monitor position, MacBook Air placement and iPad Pro setup

🕹️ ✈️ What’s in my travel tech pouch?

😎 ⭐️ More than a decade of Internet frienship - how I finally met Augusto Pinaud in person!

April 2023

📝 On April 28 ‘23 I am…

🎙 No Office FM #44: Why You Should Interview Your Customers

March 2023

🏝 Remote or bust? Is Hybrid staying or are we forcing people back to the old-school office?

📲 ✔️ ⭐️ In 2023 my iPhone Mini has just ONE home screen

🤩 ✔️ Using Systems to Improve Your Productivity

💌 My 2022 review - did you do yours?

😎 Thank you Tweetbot and welcome Ivory! Or my gradual switch from Twitter to Mastodon!

February 2023

🗓 ⭐️ 2022 review - wind of change

📲 The joy of iPhone 13 Mini and how it still beats the latest Samsung Galaxy 23 Ultra

✅ 🎬 Why at sweet sixteen, I’m still excited about Nozbe?

✅ 💼 ⭐️ 16 years of Nozbe

January 2023

📲 😎 Replacing battery in iPhone SE - my daughter’s first phone!

📖 Hell yeah! Dedications I wrote to a friend on all 4 Derek Sivers books

📱 🏠 💻 ⭐️ Why I need a Mac when I’m working mostly on my iPad?

2022

December 2022

🏠 M1 MacBook Air changed my home office setup for 2023 completely!

💼 ✅ Nozbe is now a Limited Liability Company: Nozbe sp. z o.o.

🗯 💼 What’s a broken keycard moment in your business?

🤖 Another Porsche LEGO set - building the 911 RSR

💼 🎬 Trust is better than control and… performance!

🗯 📲 😎 How to enjoy photos of your family on your iOS16 iPhone Lock Screen

💼 ✅ Aulery - how I won my first startup award

📱 A decade later - 5 apps which are still on my iPad and rocking it!

🤩 🏝 Guest speaker at the Non-profit Productivity Summit 2022

🏝 Some companies still need an office because… they want an office!

💌 5 things that might boost your productivity. Gratitude, No Office, getting things done… and more

November 2022

📝 On November 30 ‘22 I am…

🤩 Guest on the Helpful Habits podcast - the habit of productivity

🎙 🎬 No Office FM #43: Interview with David Allen: Introducing GTD in a Team

🗯 😎 Be thankful and practice gratitude every day

⌨️ Updating my avatar for 2022 and beyond - more blue and more smiles for a better future!

🎾 🙁 Qatar FIFA World Cup - how to enjoy football when it’s located in a regime that built stadiums by slaves

🏠 🎬 🎥 Home Office 2022 Walkthrough - Team Productivity Show #14

💼 ✔️ ✏️ How to check if you’re working on the right thing - intersection of joy, skill and what your company needs

💼 🙁 How Elon Musk decimated twitter in less than a month!

🏠 🎬 10 things I recommend you have in your home office!

😎 Missing cup holder bias - or how a minor thing can destroy your entire experience completely

🤖 Porsche 911 GT3 RS - why building Lego sets is so much fun!

🍎 🏝 🎬 Apple still insists that work-from-home or hybrid is not really their thing

✅ 🎬 Nozbe Product Vlog 6 - Improved Comments, Sections and more!

🗯 😎 Vote - please vote or the extremists will ruin our world

🗯 📲 😎 CarPlay is why auto makers should just give up on infotainment systems

🗯 💼 STOP working on day-to-day stuff on a Friday. Make it a Mighty Friday!

October 2022

🗯 💼 🙁 Elon Musk owns Twitter - what’s with escorting executives using security?

🍎 📖 After Steve by Tripp Mickle - (audio) book of the week

🕹️ 📲 AirPodsPro 2 and three extra ways to charge them!

🤩 Guest on Copy Robin - Hybrid or Remote Work?

🙁 🎾 Unforgivable behavior by famous sports people is so disappointing - case of Draymond Green

📱 🏠 Dedicated iPad corner stand-up desk in my home office

🏝 Companies that force people back to the office will lose

🗯 💼 🏝 Meeting by walking around is the healthiest way to do meetings!

🤖 Building lego McLaren F1 car

September 2022

🕹️ 📲 AirPods Pro - why I carry them always in my pocket?

📲 Instead of the latest and greatest, I’m getting the cutest - why I switched to the last iPhone mini

📝 On September 19 ‘22 I am…

📱 🖋 🔗 New Journaling and Planning Siri Shortcut to help you stay focused and productive!

August 2022

🕹️ 🍎 AirTags - why we need them and how I use them

July 2022

📝 On July 8 ‘22 I am…

📱 🖋 🔗 Start journaling today with this simple (and free) Siri Shortcut!

🙁 FCKPTN: Russia is a terrorist state. Updates on War in Ukraine 🇺🇦

June 2022

🎙 No Office FM #42: Why Would You Attend In-person Conference?

🎾 🎬 Warriors win 4th NBA championship in 8 years - why a selfless team is the best 🏀

🎂 43 and I get to choose what I want to do

🍎 🤩 On Anything But Idle - WWDC2022 - new stuff from Apple!

May 2022

🎙 No Office FM #41: Work From Anywhere You Want

💼 🙁 Businesses is business - which companies have no moral compass and still actively operate in Russia

⌚️ 🎾 15th olympic-distance triathlon completed - let’s keep swimming, cycling and running!

😎 🎾 Learnings from a bike accident - speed, distance and helmet!

💌 Spring is in full swing - productivity, changes and Ukraine

April 2022

✅ 🎬 Nozbe Product Vlog 5 - Project Templates, Calendar & Filters

✔️ 🔗 ⭐️ Ode to Markdown. Why I love ❤️ writing everything in plain text.

🎙 No Office FM #40: Weekly Review Tips & Tricks

✅ ✔️ Activity - my favorite part of the new Nozbe - or why as CEO I hate asking for status updates

😎 🎬 Garry Kasparov on Ted explaining the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦 in 15 minutes

📖 The Power of Regret by Daniel Pink - (audio)book of the week

🎙 No Office FM #39: Just Write Stuff Down

🌎 🙁 The West still doesn’t get Russia. They should really talk to us - Eastern Europeans!

✔️ Do it this time, stop postponing for next time

🌎 ✅ On Nozbe blog - how about giving away $15 for each new team?

🎾 Iga Świątek is now 1GA - Number 1 Female Tennis Player in the world!

🎙 No Office FM #38: Hybrid work. Practical tips.

March 2022

📝 On March 25 ‘22 I am…

😎 I’m a privileged white man - and what am I going to do about it?

🏝 How about adults treating other adults as… adults?

🙁 Bad things happen when good people do nothing

🙁 🎬 War in Ukraine 🇺🇦 - how Putin’s Russia is killing our freedom - what can we do?

😎 A chance to meet someone in person, who you know online? Go for it or it might never happen!

🍎 🏝 Apple asks employees back to the office while also inspiring them to quit

🎙 No Office FM #37: Mighty Fridays (or 4-day workweek) in Nozbe

😎 Being nice and optimistic doesn’t make you weak

February 2022

🎙 No Office FM #36: Lean & kaizen in software development

⌚️ How to get your Apple Watch to be United with Ukraine

🎙 No Office FM #35: The Year Of The Bicycle

🗓 2021 review - a challenging year!

💼 ✅ 🎬 Clarity - why our new message that Nozbe Teams becomes the new Nozbe resonates with people

✅ 🌎 🎬 Celebrating 15 years of Nozbe with a special announcement

January 2022

🎙 No Office FM #34: iPad Mini Review & Productivity Hacks

🕹️ 📲 😎 iWallet - an iPhone minimalist wallet that has been with me for the past 9 years!

📝 On January 21 ‘22 I am…

⌚️ 😎 How Apple Watch helps keep my dad alive!

😎 🎬 I’m not throwing away my shot 💉 - celebrating my booster COVID-19 vaccine with Hamilton music!

⌨️ 🚀 🔗 Sliwinski.com blog redirects to here now - I am Michael DOT Team

🎙 No Office FM #33: Rafal’s MacBook Pro Optimized Desk Setup

🥇 Evergreen - decade-old blog posts that are still true today - best of 2012

2021

December 2021

🥇 Essentialism, productivity webinars, podcasting on life and books and much more - best of 2017

💌 End of year newsletter for 2022…

🍎 💻 📱 7 lives of a decade-old trusty Apple Thunderbolt Display

🎙 ✅ No Office FM #32: How we develop the product in Nozbe

🤩 🎬 Guest appearance at the Nonprofit Productivity Summit

🎾 Stephen Curry - the GOAT of 3-point shooting

😎 Dear John… let’s have one last chat about COVID… for the sake of our friendship

🎙 No Office FM #31: Famous Nozbe Design Fight Canceled

✅ 🎬 Nozbe Product Vlog 4 - multi-teams, teams of 1 and filters and more!

🎬 🎥 Task-based communication as the future of team productivity! - Team Productivity Show #13

November 2021

✅ 🎬 In Conversation With Sarah Harkleroad - how I enjoy talking to Nozbe customers!

📱 iPad Pro 13” with white Magic Keyboard after 3 months - my subjective review!

🕹️ 🏝 🏠 Perfect zoom meeting setup or streaming kit in my new home office

🎙 No Office FM #30: Pros and Cons of #iPadOnly Work

🏠 My new home office for 2022 with professional recording gear

🍎 🎬 🎥 Trying out YouTube #shorts with: Apple won’t unleash!

⌨️ 😎 Coding is one of my favorite hobbies. It’s my happy place.

🙁 When national symbols support nationalistic agenda - they don’t make me feel patriotic anymore!

🎙 No Office FM #29: Working across time zones

October 2021

🤩 🎬 On Anything But Idle - commenting Apple Unleashed event

🎙 No Office FM #28: Unleash like a PRO

💌 Newsletter is back! After many years of silence…

🎙 No Office FM #27: Company retreat & team bonding

📝 On October 6 ‘21 I am…

September 2021

🏝 🎥 🎬 No Office Book Teaser TWO - Team Productivity Show #12

✅ 🎬 Nozbe Teams Product Vlog 3 - Task-based communication in practice

📲 This year I’m going with iPhone 13 Pro. Mini no more!

🤩 🎬 Anything but Idle - talking about iPhone 13 Apple Event

✅ 🎬 Nozbe Teams Product Vlog 2 - API, hashtags, pins, links to tasks and more!

August 2021

📱 The M1 13” iPad Pro with white Magic Keyboard is not as huge as I thought! My first impressions.

🎙 No Office FM #26: Tech gear we use on holidays

✈️ Berlin - the capital city of European history?

🎙 No Office FM #25: Ideas for process & productivity improvements

July 2021

🤩 Short Life Lessons on WorldClassPerformer

🎙 No Office FM #24: The iPadOnly Home Office of Augusto Pinaud

😎 🎬 Drink water. Just listen to Cristiano Ronaldo!

🎙 No Office FM #23: Best tips to successful workation

📝 On July 4 ‘21 I am…

🌎 ✅ 🎬 Nozbe Teams Product Vlog 1 - new features and backstage (on Nozbe blog)

June 2021

🌎 ✅ The Pyramid Of Communication - Your Team’s Efficiency Guarantee (on Nozbe blog)

📖 🏝 Teaser #2 of the #NoOffice book - what if there’s no office at all?

🎙 No Office FM #22: How to foster focused work

📱 Why I dig the updated multitasking on the iPad in iOS15 beta

🤩 Smartere Tech - on productivity and remote work

🌎 🏝 9 facts & myths about remote work (on Nozbe blog)

🏝 🌎 Why Nozbe has no office and how we work (on Nozbe blog)

🎙 No Office FM #21: Work-Life Balance as a Double Win

🍎 🏝 🙁 Apple, offices and this new “problematic” flexibility to letting people work from anywhere

May 2021

🤩 🎬 Interviewed by Time Navigators about NoOffice work

🎙 🎬 No Office FM #20: How To Achieve The Work-Life Balance According To Michael Hyatt

🎂 42 and getting ready for a new reality

😎 Getting vaccination done for COVID-19

🎙 No Office FM #19: What can we learn from Basecamp’s mistake

💼 The fundamental difference between how I run Nozbe and how they run Basecamp - the owner doesn’t need to call all the shots!

🎙 No Office FM #18: How To Run a Virtual Team Retreat

💼 I’m sad, because people I looked up to - Basecamp leaders JF and DHH - lost their way. In a big way.

April 2021

🎙 No Office FM #17: Meetings are regular, optional and well-prepared

🍎 😎 Why I bought the last two remaining Apple HomePods for my living room

🏠 Home office for 2021 with dedicated recording corner

🏝 Remote Teamwork - The Ultimate Guide

😎 ✔️ I don’t love it!

🎙 No Office FM #16: What’s in our backpacks?

March 2021

🤩 📱 On iPad Pros podcast geeking out about using the iPad for work

🎙 No Office FM #15: Benefits of journaling & iPad dreams

🏠 Tinkering, building, crafting… and cables in my home office

📝 On March 15 ‘21 I am…

😎 ✅ 10 years after my earthquake adventure in Japan

🎧 The Podcast #211 - Warsaw

🎙 No Office FM #14: Podcast production process and cyber security

🤖 😎 Building Lego Baby Yoda

💼 🎥 🎬 The big “why” of pricing a product or service - Team Productivity Show #11

🕹️ ✈️ What’s in my backpack? 🎒

February 2021

🤩 On Startup Info - how we all work remotely

🎙 No Office FM #13: No Roadmap

📲 Embracing the MagSafe lifestyle

✅ 🎥 🎬 14th Anniversary of Nozbe - Team Productivity Show #10

🎙 No Office FM #12: Leading by context

🎧 📖 The Podcast #210 - No Rules Rules

📝 On February 4 ‘21 I am…

🌎 ✅ Nozbe turns 14 today!

January 2021

📱 Curlicues - note taking on infinite canvas with the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil

🎙 No Office FM #11: Direction and Home Screens for 2021

🗓 2020 review - a true roller-coaster year 🦠

📲 ✔️ My new minimalist iPhone 12 Mini Home Screen for 2020

📱 ✔️ Updated and simplified list of iPad apps that help me work #iPadOnly and get lots done on my iPad Pro 11”

🥇 My best blog posts of 2020

📝 On January 3 ‘21 I am…

2020

December 2020

🎧 The Podcast #209 - Lean house

🎙 No Office FM #10: Merry Christmas

🚀 📱 📲 Rolling the virtual dice when playing board games! 🎲🎲

📱 ✔️ 🖋 🔗 Simplify journaling, daily planning and time tracking with just one Siri Shortcut and iA Writer

🎙 No Office FM #9: Building your Home Office

💼 ✅ How an idea is born… and what happens with it next?

📝 On December 9 ‘20 I am…

🥇 My best blog posts of 2018

🎙 No Office FM #8: Weekend Wednesday and new Nozbe Teams features

November 2020

🕹️ 📱 📲 Gadgets for a geek like me for 2020 Christmas Holiday season

😎 What I’m thankful for this year

📲 First impressions of the ultimate cuteness - the iPhone 12 Mini

🎙 No Office FM #7: The Pyramid Of Communication

🤩 🎬 On Anything But Idle commenting on Apple Silicon M1 launch event

✔️ 🎥 Subscribe to my Team Productivity Show as an audio podcast!

🏠 🎬 🎥 My Home Office 2020 walkthrough - Team Productivity Show #9

🚀 📲 📱 🔗 Psst… don’t tell YouTube that I created a page to watch videos without being tracked 🤫

📝 On November 2 ‘20 I am…

October 2020

🎙 No Office FM #6: How virtual Nozbe Reunion happened

🌎 🏝 Here’s how we organized a virtual team reunion in pandemic times

🎙 No Office FM #5: How to deal with emails?

✅ ✔️ 🎬 Live demo walkthrough of Nozbe Teams - how to do GTD in teams?

🤩 🎬 On “Anything But Idle” commenting on Apple Special Event (iPhone 12 launch)

📱 🔗 How to download video and audio from YouTube using youtube-dl on the iPad

🏝 🎥 No Office Book Teaser - Team Productivity Show #8

🥇 My best blog posts of 2019

🙁 COVID-19 - what to do about that Coronavirus?

😎 How my uncle taught me which ice cream or dish to choose from a menu of options?

September 2020

📺 🎬 Achieve team success by working differently

🎙 No Office FM #3: Dogfooding

📖 😎 Just say “thank you”… because when you said “but”, you basically blew it!

💼 ✅ 17 commandments of work - my VISION for Nozbe team and Nozbe Teams product.

📝 On September 14 ‘20 I am…

🏠 I hope my home office for 2020 will inspire you to set up your workspace!

🎙 No Office FM: The Power of Small Teams

⌚️ 🎾 More than a year on the move or how Apple Watch rings help me stay in shape

August 2020

🎬 🎥 A vision for the company and a product - Team Productivity Show #7

📖 🏝 Teaser 1 of #NoOffice book - how you’re using your office wrong!

🎙 No Office FM: Why there’s #NoOffice?

📱 A decade with an iPad - what a delightful computer!

🍿 😎 When in doubt, just do the next right thing!

🎬 🎥 Why, How and When of the #NoOffice book - Team Productivity Show #6

📖 🏝 Check out first 10 chapters of #NoOffice book and tell me WDYT

📝 On August 1 ‘20 I am…

July 2020

✔️ ⌨️ Once a week to create a long-lasting habit

✅ 🎬 Nozbe Teams launches today on Product Hunt!

⌨️ Small/big font and the magic of Sass and CSS on my blog

📝 On July 25 ‘20 I am…

⌨️ 🚀 My new site Michael.team launches today!

June 2020

🎥 🎬 Task-based communication - Team Productivity Show #5

📝 On June 26 ‘20 I am…

🎧 The Podcast #208 - Smart teams work from home

🤩 On ProductivityCast about Nozbe Teams

📺 🎬 How Small Teams Can Do Great Things by Ditching Email & Meetings

May 2020

🎧 The Podcast #207 - Competition Gossip Corner

🎂 41 - may you live in interesting times…

🎬 🎥 AMA - Ask Me Anything for 40th birthday - Team Productivity Show BONUS

😎 Getting Beard Done by shaving once a week, with a system!

April 2020

📱 🕹️ Backlit keyboard and more joys of using the Magic Keyboard - an accessory that makes the iPad Pro true to itself

🎬 🕹️ 📱 🎥 Magic Keyboard review - Team Productivity Show #4

🏠 I’ve seen the future of a modern office workplace and it is 💩

🎧 The Podcast #206 - Radek’s Face Shield Factory

😎 10 design principles by Dieter Rams

📱 🚀 The #iPadOnly book is an oldie but a goodie… and is free for you to read online!

🎧 The Podcast #205 - Chat about: kaizen & performance

March 2020

🎧 The Podcast #204 - Core Hours

📱 🎬 How to correctly use a computer - the new iPad Pro with the new keyboard

🎧 The Podcast #203 - Lean at Nozbe

🎧 📖 The Podcast #202 - The Machine That Changed The World

🎥 🎬 Special policy for Nozbe team as the COVID-19 takes over the world - Team Productivity Show #3

🎬 🎥 Nozbe is a 2-product company - Team Productivity Show #2

February 2020

🎧 📖 The Podcast #201 - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k

✅ 💼 RIP Wunderlist - an app that changed the course of Nozbe for the better

🎬 🎥 Launching Michael’s Team Productivity Show with 13 stories celebrating 13 years of Nozbe

🎧 The Podcast #200 - Best of The Podcast 🍾💯💯

January 2020

🎧 The Podcast #199 - Art of Feedback

🙁 RIP - Clay Innovation and Kobe Elevation - thank you for your inspiration!

🏠 📱 What’s on my desk? Here’s my re-designed stand up desk for 2020.

🎧 The Podcast #198 - 2019 in Review

✔️ 🖋 🔗 My new journaling routine for 2020 using Shortcuts on iPad or iPhone and Bear app

😎 11 years and counting - how my daughter is growing and I simply can’t believe it…

🎧 The Podcast #197 - Horizontal Responsibilities

🏝 😎 📱 A child to a remotely-working dad: you’re just writing random stuff!

🗓 2019 review - a transition year…

✔️ 👨🏼‍💻 I challenge you to simplify your life in 2020

2019

December 2019

🤖 😎 LEGO - how I’m unleashing a child within me by building a new lego set every year (just for me!)

⌚️ Apple Watch series 5 review - the always-on screen is a huge deal!

🎧 The Podcast #196 - Hands Are Dirty

📱 My good old iPad 3 retina - the 2012 tablet that made me go #iPadOnly - is now on my wall and it works great!

🍎 🙁 Apple used to stand for something. Now they stand for nothing. Where’s Steve Jobs when we need him?

😎 When are you planning to retire? I don’t think I ever will!

🏠 My Home Office for 2020 - prototyping new ideas

🎧 🎬 The Podcast #195 - Gadgets, with love

November 2019

🎧 The Podcast #194 - Trendsetters

🎧 The Podcast #193 - Two-Product Company

October 2019

🎧 The Podcast #192 - Corrupted System

📲 Effortless photography. Why taking pictures with a modern smartphone feels like cheating.

🎧 The Podcast #191 - Summer’s Gone

✔️ Pre-deciding is the key to success.

⌚️ 🎾 Competing in an olympic-distance triathlon with an Apple Watch Series 4

🎾 My 11th Olympic-distance triathlon - why I keep loving these 3 sports and why I keep sucking at them?

September 2019

🤩 Productivity technology and more at the Productivity Summit 2019

😎 Kidnapped and tweeting… something that’s just NOT true to you

🤩 Talking entrepreneurship on Project Kazimierz podcast

🤩 Pyramid of Communication featured on Business Systems Summit

📖 ✔️ Why reading the same book again (or several times in life) is OK

🙁 It’s been 80 years since the start of the World War 2… and we still can’t appreciate the peace enough!

August 2019

😎 I’m too old for this, right? Wrong!

✔️ 📲 My new smartphone - iPhone SE - why I’m voluntarily switching to the slowest smartphone possible.

✔️ Emailing like texting - how to get back to inbox zero and make every email a GTD “2-minute rule”

💼 Nozbe will not take any outside investment… nor will we build an office…

😎 Jesus was right. Love is all you need to answer what’s right or wrong!

✔️ 😎 Focusing on the WHEN and not the HOW…

📱 🎬 MKBHD goes iPadOnly and I really like his way of using the iPad!

🎾 Undertrained

🎾 ✔️ No Ironman - how I blew my dream because I was… late

July 2019

💼 ✏️ Emotions in business are too often getting in the way of rational thinking… so keep giving yourself time to cool off… and read between the lines!

🎧 The Podcast #190 - Webmaster is back!

💼 How to get rid of Zoom server from your Mac and why we need a non-SV video conferencing alternative

🎧 🎬 The Podcast #189 - Dub dub

June 2019

✈️ ✔️ After 10 years, GTD Summit is back!

✈️ ✅ 🕹️ 💼 MindBlower - un-official Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference symbol I’m giving away for free at the event

May 2019

🎧 The Podcast #188 - Michael 4.0

🎧 The Podcast #187 - Camino

🎂 Michael 4.0 - redesigned and happier than ever

🎧 📖 The Podcast #186 - The courage to be disliked

🎧 The Podcast #185 - Factfullness

April 2019

🎧 📖 The Podcast #184 - Digital Minimalism

🎧 🎬 The Podcast #183 - N is 4 Nozbe

✔️ Challenge: social media sabbatical for a month

🎧 The Podcast #182 - Purple Day

🎧 The Podcast #181 - The Deadline

March 2019

🎧 The Podcast #180 - Childhood bribes

🎧 📖 The Podcast #179 - Punished by rewards

📖 ✔️ 10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity book now available in Traditional Chinese!

🎧 The Podcast #178 - Complaining

🎧 The Podcast #177 - Planning Together

🗯 👨🏼‍💻 🔗 Digital Minimalism part 1 - fighting the compulsive iPhone checking - iMagazine column 19/03

February 2019

🎧 The Podcast #176 - Salary Formula

🎧 The Podcast #175 - 100% Buzz-Free

✔️ 📱 🖋 🔗 How intermittent journaling and some smart Siri shortcuts help me enjoy more intentional and productive days

✔️ 💼 How I learned JavaScript by studying source code of Basecamp… and how I keep learning programming by studying code written by others…

🎧 The Podcast #174 - 12 years of Nozbe

January 2019

🎧 The Podcast #173 - The Year of Purple

🎾 Why suck at three sports, if I can suck at four? Or how I’m loving my tennis game and why you should start practicing a new sport this year, too!

😎 💼 Nobody’s perfect from the beginning

🎧 📖 The Podcast #172 - It doesn’t have to be crazy at work

🙁 How tolerance of hate and extremism leads to the lowest point in the modern history of Poland

🎧 The Podcast #171 - 2018 in Review

🗓 2018 review - an ongoing personal and business development

💼 ✅ Having Nozbe featured as “App of the day” on the Apple App Store is great!

✔️ ⌨️ Why “lessons learned” is better than just “lessons” - or how I edit my writing…

😎 What I’ve learned from my IG #2018bestnine photos

2018

December 2018

✔️ 😎 Time to start your annual review!

🎧 The Podcast #170 - Live intentionally

🎬 📖 10 steps to Ultimate Productivity book walkthrough in just 2 minutes!

😎 Two organizations that do a great job of helping those in need

✔️ 🗯 Essentialism is easier when you’re forced to choose what’s really important

🎧 📖 The Podcast #169 - Bullshit jobs

📖 ✔️ BOOK LAUNCH - 10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity

🏝 📱 Why in any company you should be using version control for anything - how we use Github not only for code, but also for writing!

🍎 💼 Stock market doesn’t make any sense to me as Microsoft is more valuable than Apple…

⌚️ 5 things I love about the Apple Watch series 4 after just a day of using it!

🎧 The Podcast #168 - Get bored

✔️ 📖 Introduction to my new book - 10 steps to Ultimate Productivity

😎 🎾 So in the end I want to become an Ironman…

🎬 ✔️ Blast from the past - the “10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity” Video Course back from 2013 ahead of my book launch!

🕹️ 😎 How I’m keeping my coffee ☕️ warm using the Ember mug

🎧 The Podcast #167 - The clunky future

November 2018

🤩 TV appearance! Nozbe’s TGIF - Thank Goodness It’s Friday on Polish national television - how to work smarter?

💼 Why I find joy in programming even though I don’t get to code much these days

✔️ 💼 Would you pay 20 cents per day for increased productivity?

🎧 The Podcast #166 - Talk about size

🎾 😎 🎬 I’m thankful for Robert Kubica being back as racing driver for Formula 1

😎 15 years ago I stopped being friends with her… only to become her best friend ever as her husband

🍎 ✔️ How HomePod turned me into a Siri enthusiast - I finally use voice to get stuff done!

✔️ 🗯 Why we need deadlines

🎬 🤩 Which mobile apps we use to run our Nozbe company? - video of my presentation at Mobiconf 2018

🎧 The Podcast #165 - Let’s fix it!

📱 🎬 Video review - why I’m calling the 11” iPad Pro a “retro iPad”?

📱 How my younger self convinced me to go with the smaller 11” iPad Pro

📱 📲 Quirks and issues when migrating to a new iOS device (case of iPad Pro 11” & iPhone XS)

🎧 The Podcast #164 - Why we do what we do

😎 💯 100 Years of Polish Independence 🇵🇱

🎬 🏝 🤩 Why “No Office”? Why I’m running an all-remote company? - my presentation at Infoshare 2018

🎧 The Podcast #163 - Joy of less

✔️ New habits before the year ends

🎧 🎬 The Podcast #162 - Backpack Only

🎧 The Podcast #161 - Talk to them!

🎧 The Podcast #160 - Building with hammers

October 2018

🎧 The Podcast #159 - Home Automation

🎧 🎬 The Podcast #158 - Sabbatical

🎧 The Podcast #157 - Watermelon 🍉

🏝 🤩 How digital nomads get stuff done - mobiconf 2018

September 2018

📺 🎬 How to find more focus at work

🎧 The Podcast #156 - Sport hacks

🎧 The Podcast #155 - Spreading the word

🎧 The Podcast #154 - Inevitable Convergence

July 2018

💼 Fake exhaust pipes in cars… or how brands undermine their stories…

🎧 The Podcast #153 - Attention required

📽 🎬 How to do a Weekly Review explained in 3 minutes (video)

🎧 The Podcast #152 - Power to the people

🎧 The Podcast #151 - Nozbe: Automated

🤩 Stay on Top of Your Work With Michael Sliwinski!

🎾 🙁 Polish football - no heart, no passion… and a big disappointment

🎧 The Podcast #150 - Three years in

June 2018

🎧 📖 The Podcast #149 - Profit First

🤩 iPad Only with Martinj Verheij

🎧 The Podcast #148 - Don’t spend it all

🎾 😎 Golden State Warriors - how to keep eye on the prize and lead an unselfish team

🎧 The Podcast #147 - Shackles, please!

🎧 📖 The Podcast #146 - Magic of Tidying Up

🎧 🎬 The Podcast #145 - Don’t say that!

May 2018

🎧 The Podcast #144 - Staring at a blank canvas

🎧 The Podcast #143 - How to spend money

🎧 The Podcast #142 - Aliens among us

April 2018

🎧 🎬 The Podcast #141 - Nozbe at Nozbe

🎧 The Podcast #140 - Raising the bar

🎧 🎬 The Podcast #139 - First tasks first

🎧 The Podcast #138 - Leap of faith

🎧 The Podcast #137 - Nomadic lifestyle

March 2018

🎧 The Podcast #136 - Traveling with apps

📺 🎬 A Checklist for the Most Productive Spring Cleaning

🎧 The Podcast #135 - Swiss army apps

🎧 The Podcast #134 - Nozbe for you

🎧 📖 The Podcast #133 - Better Than Before

🎧 The Podcast #132 - Reusable Rocketry

February 2018

🎧 The Podcast #131 - Singular focus of 2018

🎧 The Podcast #130 - 2017 Highlights

🗓 2017 review: a learning curve!

📱 ✔️ 🖋 Workflows that build regular habits and help me get stuff done quicker

January 2018

🎧 The Podcast #129 - Letting go

🎧 The Podcast #128 - Values

🎧 The Podcast #127 - Burst projects vs keystone habits

📺 🎬 New Year’s Resolutions - How to plan your best year ever

🎧 The Podcast #126 - Inbox Non-Zero

👨🏼‍💻 📲 How I fell in love with the iPhone X – my review from a productivity guy’s perspective

🎧 The Podcast #125 - No speed limit

2017

December 2017

🎧 The Podcast #124 - Making geeks smile - Xmas shopping spectacular

🎧 📖 The Podcast #123 - So Good They Can’t Ignore You

🏝 Nozbe Reunion - why, where and how to organize a company retreat?

🎧 The Podcast #122 - Deep Pre-Decision

November 2017

🎧 The Podcast #121 - Scanning & Planning

🎧 The Podcast #120 - Spanglish

📺 🎬 Perfect Weekly Review - Friday Revolution Tips & Tricks

🕹️ 👨🏼‍💻 ✔️ 💻 How wireless headphones improve my productivity… and take me into the future!

🎧 The Podcast #119 - The Polyglots

✔️ The new 2 hour rule - stop procrastinating and get your scariest tasks done!

✔️ Templates I use to review my day, week and quarter

🎧 The Podcast #118 - More Than Good Enough

🎧 The Podcast #117 - Notch of the Future

October 2017

🎧 🎬 The Podcast #116 - App of the Reunion

🎧 The Podcast #115 - Triathlons 🏊‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏃‍♂️💨

🎧 The Podcast #114 - Panamá

September 2017

🎧 The Podcast #113 - Don’t be creepy

📺 🎬 Back to Work - How to get your projects done by the end of the year?

🎧 📖 The Podcast #112 - The Pursuit of Essentialism

🕹️ 📱 iPadOnly podcast recording set – how to travel & record podcasts with great quality and minimum equipment

🎧 The Podcast #111 - Death to paper

🎧 📖 The Podcast #110 - Non-Violent Communication

August 2017

📖 Highlights from Greg McKeown’s book Essentialism - the disciplined pursuit of less… but better - how to become an essentialist?

🕹️ 📱 Essential iPad Pro accessories for an #iPadOnly life

🎧 The Podcast #109 - Workflow to the rescue

🎧 The Podcast #108 - iPad Consultations

📱 👨🏼‍💻 Being #iPadOnly on 10.5” – is the new iPad Pro with iOS11 finally a serious setup for work?

📺 🎬 Webinar - AMA - Ask Michael Anything

🎧 The Podcast #107 - Simplify Everything

July 2017

🎧 The Podcast #106 - Combined Twitter & Instagram moment

🎧 The Podcast #105 - Twitter detox

🎧 📖 The Podcast #104 - A Guide to the Good Life

📱 How setting up a new iPad Pro for work is an exercise in minimalism and focus

🎧 📖 The Podcast #103 - Stoicism

June 2017

🎧 The Podcast #102 - iPad Only

🎧 The Podcast #101 - WWDC 2017 - our take on it!

📺 🎬 Effective planning tips for work and holidays

📱 7 Reasons why switching to the iPad as your main computer is not just about the iPad Pro and iOS11…

✅ Why I started doing webinars and why I’m loving them?

🎧 🎬 The Podcast #100 - Two years (celebration!) 💯

🤩 On the Happy Melly podcast - The Secret to Productivity

🎧 The Podcast #99 - Bring magic back

May 2017

🎧 📖 The Podcast #98 - Stop Stealing Dreams

✔️ 👨🏼‍💻 My top 5 tricks to improve your productivity almost instantly

🎂 38 years young - the possibilities are infinite!

🎧 The Podcast #97 - Schooling

📺 🎬 Maximize TEAM productivity in 10 steps

🎧 The Podcast #96 - Working while traveling

📖 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - (audio) book of the week

🎧 The Podcast #95 - Living in the future

April 2017

🎧 📖 The Podcast #94 - Insanely Simple

🎧 The Podcast #93 - Dare to try

🎧 📖 The Podcast #92 - Fooled by Randomness

🎧 🎬 The Podcast #91 - Best City

📺 🎬 10 Practical Tips to Ultimate Productivity

March 2017

🎧 The Podcast #90 - Too risky

📖 Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson - (audio) book of the week

🎧 The Podcast #89 - Shutdown ritual

📙 №34 with Greg McKeown - the last (essential) issue of the Productive! Magazine

🎧 The Podcast #88 - Solitude

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Greg McKeown on Essentialism - Productive! Magazine’s last interview (issue #34)

📲 3 reasons why I’m enjoying my jet black iPhone 7 Plus so much?

🎧 📖 The Podcast #87 - Sleep Smarter

📱 ✔️ A complete list of iPad apps that let me be #iPadOnly

🎧 The Podcast #86 - Perfect Week

📖 Peak by Anders Ericsson - (audio) book of the week

February 2017

🎧 The Podcast #85 - Magic Spreadsheet

🎧 The Podcast #84 - From reading to doing

✅ 💼 👨🏼‍💻 Ten years feels like one day – Nozbe’s 10th birthday

📺 🎬 Our Productivity Evolution in the last 10 years of Nozbe

🎧 ✅ The Podcast #83 - 10 years of Nozbe special

😎 👨🏼‍💻 7 proven rules that will help you lose weight… for good!

✅ 🌎 My company, Nozbe celebrates 10 years! [on: Nozbe Blog]

January 2017

🎧 The Podcast #82 - Planning 2017

🗓 2016 review: not bad at all!

🎧 📖 The Podcast #81 - Deliberate Practice

🎧 📖 The Podcast #80 - Peak

📺 🎬 How to Get New Year’s Resolutions Done?

✅ 📽 🎬 Interview with Marek Zmyslowski - Getting Things Done in Africa - Productive! Show

2016

December 2016

🎧 The Podcast #79 - Inevitable Transition

✅ 📽 🎬 Interview with Jeff Sanders - Productivity for Podcasters - Productive! Show

🎧 The Podcast #78 - Underwhelming performance

✅ 📽 🎬 Interview with Glenn Williams - How to Delegate Tasks? - Productive! Show

⌚️ 👨🏼‍💻 Apple Watch Only – a day in my life with the Series 2 Nike Apple Watch

🎧 📖 The Podcast #77 - Ego is the enemy

✅ 📽 🎬 Interview with Erik Fisher - Beyond The Todo List host - Productive! Show

✔️ My template for doing a Weekly Review

🎧 📖 The Podcast #76 - Management by walking around

✅ 📽 🎬 Interview with Mike St Pierre - Getting Things Done at schools - Productive! Show #104

🎧 📖 The Podcast #75 - Under New Management

📖 🏝 E-book launch: No Office Apps - how to communicate effectively with a team using the latest apps

November 2016

📱 👨🏼‍💻 How “baby” iPad Pro became my computer of the year 2016

🎧 📖 The Podcast #74 - Disrupted

✅ 🌎 Let’s give thanks and donate to help buy computer equipment for orphans! [on: Nozbe blog]

🎧 The Podcast #73 - Quarterly Offsite

✅ 🎬 📽 Last year’s interview with Marcus Platt on Little Book of Nozbe

🎧 The Podcast #72 - Accept Your Weakness

🎧 The Podcast #71 - Friction Management

✔️ 😎 🖋 How I finally get daily journaling done with a workflow on my iPhone

🎧 The Podcast #70 - People Want To Work

October 2016

🎧 The Podcast #69 - Sharing

🎧 📖 The Podcast #68 - The Inevitable

📱 👨🏼‍💻 There are two iPads: a big one, and a small one. But which one is better for me?

🎧 📖 The Podcast #67 - David and Goliath

🏝 My Company’s Pyramid Of Communication Revisited

🎧 The Podcast #66 - Guerilla Development

September 2016

📺 🎬 No Office Apps - how to work effectively in an all-remote team using modern technologies

🎧 The Podcast #65 - Request for comments

🎧 The Podcast #64 - Garbage collection

🎧 The Podcast #63 - Show me

🎧 The Podcast #62 - The path to the end

August 2016

🏝 TGIF - My team’s attempt at working less, but better

🎧 The Podcast #61 - Take the blame

🎧 The Podcast #60 - TGIF

🎧 The Podcast #59 - Abolishing hierarchies

📺 🎬 Webinar - AMA - Ask Me Anything

📱 👨🏼‍💻 It’s been 4 years since I went #iPadOnly but the real era of iPads has just begun

🎧 The Podcast #58 - Peer Mentoring

📙 Why you should have a morning routine - intro to Productive! Magazine #33 with Laura McClellan

🤩 No Office, Productivity and Running a successful online business - where I was invited to talk about these things?

July 2016

📽 🎬 Jeff Sanders and dominating day before breakfast - Productive! Show #102

🎧 The Podcast #57 - Discomfort Routine

🎧 The Podcast #56 - Thought Leadering

😎 💼 Optimism pays. Why optimistic people are successful and get more done

🎧 The Podcast #55 - Ten Years From Now

🎧 The Podcast #54 - Forget the fireplace

👨🏼‍💻 📲 📱 New features in iOS10 and macOS Sierra that will help boost your productivity

June 2016

📺 🎬 How to communicate through tasks and stop using email to get projects done

🎧 📖 The Podcast #53 - Originals

🏝 ✔️ Why “mobile” is a value, “mobile” is important and “mobile” really comes first

🎧 The Podcast #52 - 6 degrees of Elon Musk

🏝 How banning email improves team productivity

✅ 🎾 A triathlon-packing checklist I created for me and you [Nozbe.HOW]

🎬 📽 How to motivate #NoOffice employees - Productive! Show #109

🎧 The Podcast #51 - WWDC2016

🙁 Why America’s gun ownership leads to so many mass shootings and innocent deaths. And how it can be stopped.

🎧 The Podcast #50 - Four Disciplines

🎧 The Podcast #49 - Zero sum game

May 2016

🎾 😎 Lessons on humility and hard work from the Warriors vs Thunder basketball playoffs battle

🎧 The Podcast #48 - Three-point-three wave

📲 👨🏼‍💻 iPhone Only on vacation? Why it’s not a good idea to bring your laptop or iPad on vacation.

🎧 The Podcast #47 - Quit social media

🎧 The Podcast #46 - Deep Work

📺 🎬 How to get control of your tasks, project, goals and life in 10 steps

🎧 The Podcast #45 - Tree of knowledge

April 2016

🏝 Individual talks with your team members. How? When? And… why?

🎧 The Podcast #44 - Productivity Fudges

🎧 The Podcast #43 - Not that smart

🕹️ 👨🏼‍💻 📱 What my new iPad Pro with Smart Keyboard taught me about productivity

🎧 The Podcast #42 - Bottom Line

🏝 If you want everyone on the same page - you’re doing it wrong!

🎧 The Podcast #41 - Never Grow Up

🏝 How “No Office” makes us… better?

March 2016

🎧 The Podcast #40 - Overcollaboration is dangerous

📙 📽 🎬 How to write. Fast. Interview with Sean Platt for the Productive! Magazine 32

📙 Get focused in 5 simple steps - intro to Productive! Magazine No.32 with Sean Platt

🎧 The Podcast #39 - Make Nozbe Great Again

🎧 The Podcast #38 - Rules of the Game

🎧 The Podcast #37 - Batch That Frog

🏠 My Home Office 2016: whiteboard, stand-up desk, chill-out sofa and less stuff

🏝 I don’t have an office. Why should I anyway?

🎧 The Podcast #36 - Weekly Rhythm Therapy

📖 Books I’m excited about: Living Forward, The Coaching Habit, 5 AM Miracle and How To Be Really Productive

February 2016

💌 Updates on #NoOffice book, my productivity course and a glimpse into my life…

🎧 The Podcast #35 - You tried to be funny

😎 ✔️ Productivity and relationships - why I take my wife on a honeymoon every year?

🎧 The Podcast #34 - Wake up and smell the coffee

🎧 The Podcast #33 - Monkey brain optimization

✅ 🌎 Watch all the Inspiring Productivity Interviews with…

💌 Have you set up your New Year’s goals yet? It’s still not too late!

🏝 How a company without an office makes a great team… better?

🎧 The Podcast #32 - How To Get Fat

✅ Almost a decade getting stuff done - how I celebrated 9 years of Nozbe?

January 2016

🏠 My #NozbeOffice - what’s my desk like? What helps me get things done?

🎧 The Podcast #31 - Topic Selection Problem (and upcoming Nozbe 3.0)

💼 😎 Wow, you’re so successful! What’s next for you?

🎧 The Podcast #30 - More Research Required

⌚️ 🍎 My Tech Gadget of 2015: The Apple Watch

👨🏼‍💻 ✔️ Productive Plan for 2016 - how to achieve goals month after month!

🎧 The Podcast #29 - Bound To Happen

🏝 There is no office…

🗓 2015 for me: pretty stable overall…

2015

December 2015

🎧 The Podcast #28 - Empty intellectual calories

😎 Christmas gift ideas: give experiences instead of things

🎧 The Podcast #27 - It’s like flossing!

📙 📽 🎬 How to be really productive? Interview with Grace Marshall for the Productive! Magazine 31

🏝 Open spaces: the Industrial Age of the 21st Century?

📙 Workflow optimization - intro to Productive! Magazine No.31 with Grace Marshall

🎧 The Podcast #26 - Punishment for naming sins

🤩 📖 The Productivity Book, featuring 30 productivity experts including me ;-)

📙 Productive! Magazine In Spanish, issue 4 with José Miguel Bolivar

🏝 Remote worker’s luxury: changing offices for different tasks and better productivity

🎧 The Podcast #25 - Vote of Confidence

💌 Let’s chat about promotions, regular blogging, podcasting and working remotely

November 2015

🌎 ✅ 💼 Why Black Friday sale is perfect timing for Nozbe users… [on: Nozbe blog]

😎 List of tech stuff I’m Thankful for in 2015

🎧 The Podcast #24 - Four-version pipeline

📱 Using a software keyboard on an iPad Pro in a vertical mode. With Smart Cover!

📱 💻 Can the iPad Pro substitute a laptop? Well… Yes. And No.

🎧 The Podcast #23 - Crazy Times

🕹️ 📱 Using my age-old Zagg keyboard with my iPad Pro

📱 After unboxing the iPad Pro - first impressions: it’s huge (duh!)

🎧 The Podcast #22 - Marginally Useful

⌚️ 3 Things I love about the Apple Watch: communication, fitness & dashboard

🏝 ✏️ The Pyramid of Communication in a Remotely Working team

🎧 The Podcast #21 - Segues

October 2015

🎧 The Podcast #20 - Why Complaining Is Important

🏝 It’s official: working from home is the best

📱 Web browsing is dead on mobile? Or how I planned my vacation on my iPad without the web…

🎧 The Podcast #19 - You have to fight

💼 Finding my social media mix with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Periscope and Medium…

🏝 Silicon Valley is disrupting everything but the way they work

✅ 💼 Why it’s so great to be in a “good” business and what it means to me, my team and you

🎧 The Podcast #18 - Meetings don’t have to be toxic

👨🏼‍💻 📱 Who is iPad Pro for? Me or you?

💼 🎾 It takes a team to win. How Poland got to Euro 2016 finals

Stretch goals - how do you set them and get them done?

🎾 📽 🎬 Why you need to clear your head - Productive!Show #99

🎧 The Podcast #17 - Tools for remote work

💼 ✔️ It’s all your fault! Even when it isn’t!

✅ 🌎 🎬 I’m not doing it alone! Meet the Nozbe team on video [on: Nozbe Blog]

September 2015

🎧 The Podcast #16 - I can literally touch you

✅ 😎 Enjoying the present moment - thoughts after Nozbe Reunion

⌚️ Apple Watch 2.0 and thoughts after 4 months wearing it

🎧 The Podcast #15 - Not only for introverts

🏝 Individual talks on a Team meeting - why it’s important to us

🏝 How we get our reunions done. Meeting my entire Nozbe team

🏝 ✔️ Do you need to be an introvert to work remotely?

💼 My main competitor: non-consumption. That’s why I want to teach productivity rather than just sell Nozbe

🎧 The Podcast #14 - Way too many iPads…

📱 Hello, I’m Michael and I have 5 iPads…

💌 Need your opinion on my blogging every day… and my new productivity video course

✅ 🎬 🌎 Video: How I work with my assistant step-by-step [on: Nozbe blog]

🍎 iPad Pro. iPhone 6s Plus and other things I’m going to buy this year

🎧 The Podcast #13 - Dark corners of Palo Alto and Cupertino

💼 Nozbe’s BACKTOWORK promo - why are we doing promotions anyway? (Hint: to motivate!)

✔️ A Productivity System starts with Inbox

✅ A new experience: becoming a micro celebrity

🎧 The Podcast #12 - Don’t sacrifice life over space projects

August 2015

🚀 HitRSS - a story of my failed startup project from 2005

💼 How to build a DIY teleprompter in 5 minutes + tips on using it when recording videos

📲 Why I love living on the cutting edge of technology: gadgets, iPhones and Nozbe on latest iOS

🎧 The Podcast #11 - The Elon Musk Show

🌎 ✅ Why You Should Be Using Nozbe for Task Management [on: Jeff Sanders 5am Podcast]

📲 Writing code on the iPhone 6 Plus. It can be done! How I wrote my “dice” app…

🏝 The apps and services we use at our remotely-working company

✔️ Ask Michael: How to start doing a Weekly Review?

🎧 The Podcast #10 - The Incentives Are Aligned

😎 Living consciously. In the moment. Essentially now.

🤩 🌎 Organizing Your Life in English with Michael Sliwinski [on: Business English Q&A podcast]

💼 How to recognize the difference between “hate” and “constructive feedback”

🎧 The Podcast #9 - I need to lower your salary

🏝 Why I do individual one-on-one meetings while playing pool :-)

📙 Too busy to get things done - intro to Productive! Magazine No.30

✅ 🌎 How I work and communicate with my assistant [on: Nozbe blog]

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Derek Sivers for the Productive! Magazine #30

🎧 🤖 The Podcast #8 - Accidental Lego Podcast

✅ ✔️ How clarity and essentialism helped me get to NozbeZero. No more tasks for today.

🚀 QTbar - my first small global “success” - a launcher toolbar app for Windows 98/Me/XP

July 2015

🎾 ✔️ What I learned about productivity, perseverance and long-term thinking from Jenson Button’s win in F1 2011 Canada GP

✅ ✔️ 🌎 How I use a project template to implement Pomodoro Technique and Unschedule Calendar every day [on: Nozbe blog]

🎧 The Podcast #7 - Too cool for an intro

✅ 📽 🎬 Behind-the-scenes look of how we release Nozbe - Productive! Show #97

🎧 The Podcast #6 - Unschedule Your Day

📱 👨🏼‍💻 Two apps on the iPad… How will iOS9 influence the “iPad Only” work?

📙 🌎 Why and How to become an early riser - interview with Karol Zielinski [in Polish for: Productive! Mag Poland]

📖 Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown - (audio) book of the week

✅ ⌚️ 🌎 🎬 New video with yours truly - how to get things done on your wrist [on: Nozbe.watch]

📖 🏝 I’m writing my new book “#NoOffice” because work is not a place to go, it’s a thing you do

🎧 The Podcast #5 - That’s how you treat them?!

⌚️ 📽 🎬 Apple Watch Q&A with Space Grey unboxing and Nozbe for Watch demo - Productive! Show #96

✔️ Ask Michael: Which apps do you use and recommend?

🎧 The Podcast #4 - The content is entertaining enough

📱 My iPad setup. And accessories. How I get things done on my iOS devices.

💻 📽 🎬 Unboxing of iMac 5K. Retina desktop, baby! - Productive! Show #95

✔️ ⌨️ Consistency is key to productivity. How I started blogging every weekday.

🍎 👨🏼‍💻 💻 How beauty boosts productivity… or my very biased MacBook One review :-)

🎧 The Podcast #3 - Personal blogs will drown in here

⌚️ 📽 🎬 Unboxing Apple Watch - Productive! Show #94

💌 Ask Me Anything. Yes, seriously :-)

June 2015

✅ 🌎 Nozbe is doubling down on Android [on: Nozbe]

🎧 The Podcast #2 - Two Apple Watches that don’t belong to us

🎧 The Podcast #1 - Introduction to Radek and me :-)

📖 Anything You Want by Derek Sivers - book of the week

📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Simon Grabowski for the Productive! Magazine #29

🍎 💻 My first iMac makes my Apple device lineup complete

🎬 🕹️ 📽 Semi Professional Canon EOS 100D DSLR review for a guy like me - Productive! Show #92

⌚️ Setting up your Apple Watch for the first time - tips and tricks

📙 Support and be supported - intro to Productive! Magazine 29

📙 📽 🎬 Essential communication skills and increasing self-esteem - Productive! Magazine 28 interview with Preston Ni

🤩 On GTD Virtual Study Group talking about #iPadOnly

🌎 ✅ What I think about Nozbe being one of the “best new apps” on the AppStore [on: Nozbe Blog]

💌 What did you think about my book “It’s all about passion!”?

🏠 My Home Office 2015 renovation with Ikea’s height-adjustable desk

🤩 How To Build Habits in 3 Steps [on: HighPerformanceLifestyle]

👨🏼‍💻 📲 iPad nano: iPhone’s no longer a one-armed bandit but that’s actually OK!

🏝 Big city life and daily commute not for me. For you?

📙 🌎 How to deal with Chinese providers, manage family life and productivity - my interview with Bogdan Wicinski (in Polish) [for the: Productive! Magazine Poland issue 13]

⌚️ 5 days with Apple Watch - time is on my side

📙 📽 🎬 Running a productive distributed team - Productive! Magazine 27 interview with Tomasz Szymanski

🌎 ✅ How much is productivity worth to you? [on: Nozbe]

May 2015

👨🏼‍💻 ✔️ How to manage notifications and not go crazy?

April 2015

✔️ 🏝 Effective Communication in a Team [part 2]: my 7 rules for improving interpersonal relations

✔️ 🏝 Effective Communication in a Team - part 1: my 5 general rules

📙 ✔️ Just Do It! Disarm your own perfectionist

⌚️ ✔️ Apple Watch - a productivity review

March 2015

📲 iPhone 6 plus. It’s all about vertical space. Apple got it right while promoting it wrong…

💼 Begin again: why starting my second company (Remag) is scary, exciting and humbling…

📱 😎 Dad, let’s go to the “iPad store” please! (Or how our children embrace touch devices…)

👨🏼‍💻 📱 This tablet “works” - why iPad is perfect for work, study and entertainment

🎬 📽 Chat about Remag - Productive! Show #89

🍎 ⌚️ 💻 The polarizing Macbook, tempting Apple Watch and… one more thing.

📙 📽 🎬 Passion, routines and entrepreneurship - Productive! Magazine 26 interview with Evan Carmichael

✅ 🤩 ✏️ Nozbe story - interview with me for “Stories of the best Polish apps”

February 2015

⌨️ ✏️ 3 changeS with a capital “S” to my blog: SSL, Sliwinski.com and a Star “★”

🤩 My milestones in Alpha Efficiency Magazine

😎 Oscars tonight: I’m rooting for my high-school buddy’s documentary: Our curse

🚀 🎬 It only takes 3 minutes to build a mobile app from a blog

🚀 💼 Why I’m starting Remag? To reinvent digital mobile publishing!

📙 Getting stuff done in Poland: Productive! Magazine PL 10 with Paul Nowak

📙 Productive! Magazine in Spanish gets an issue 2!

📙 New Year’s resolutions vs. goals - intro to Productive! Magazine #26

✅ 💼 ✏️ Nozbe celebrates 8 years in business! Going stronger than ever!

January 2015

📽 🎬 Weekly Review and Focus - chat with Augusto - Productive! Show #87

🍎 💻 The story of my first Mac - from Thinkpad to Macbook Air… back in 2008

✔️ 👨🏼‍💻 My way of project management and planning

✔️ 😎 How I’m setting my goals for 2015 to get them all done

2014

December 2014

🗓 2014 for me: total body and business makeover

📙 Productive! Magazine is growing with the first issue of a Dutch version!

📲 How I fell in love with my iPhone 6 Plus… and I wasn’t supposed to enjoy it at all!

📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Andrea Feinberg for the Productive! Magazine

📙 Make friends with time - intro to Productive! Magazine #25

November 2014

📽 🕹️ 📲 🎬 Do-It-Yourself iPhone 6 Plus Wallet - Productive! Show #85

📙 Why peer support is critical to your success - intro to Productive! Magazine #24

✔️ 👨🏼‍💻 How I deal with incoming stuff - my 5 Inboxes: Email, Nozbe, Desk, Evernote & Articles

✅ 📽 🎬 How I (the CEO :-) use Nozbe - Productive! Show #84

✈️ ✅ ✔️ Why we’re so excited about our all-team meeting: 7 steps to an amazing week with my Nozbe team!

📙 📽 🎬 Interview with James Tonn - Productive! Magazine No.24

October 2014

✅ 💼 ⌨️ Why my Nozbe team has the highest priority… and how I want to serve you better with this site

📽 🕹️ 🎬 Productivity gadgets: Bluetooth headsets review - Productive! Show #82

🙁 📲 A sad story of the last one-handed phone ever - my iPhone 5s - my habits will need to change

📙 📽 🎬 Productive school? - interview with Mike St. Pierre - Productive! Magazine #23

📙 What’s productivity really? Productive! Magazine #23 with Mike St. Pierre

September 2014

🎾 💼 Rolling the dice while winning volleyball world championships

🍎 📽 🎬 The power of iOS8 for better productivity - Productive! Show #80

😎 ✏️ 5 lessons I learned from my mom - and how she shaped my life

📙 Confessions of a manager - Productive! Magazine #22

📱 📲 ✏️ Will a new 5,5” iPhone convert people to not only #iPadOnly, but more #iPhoneOnly?

📽 🎬 Donating to Charity and my #ALSIceBucketChallenge - Productive! Show 79

August 2014

😎 How I implemented Slow Carb Diet, lost 8kg/17lbs in 2 months - tips and tricks for beginners

📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Crystal Paine “Money Saving Mom” for the Productive! Magazine No. 22

✔️ 😎 ✏️ Next Actions and Holidays: How vacation planning apps can teach you to get organized…

📽 🕹️ 🎬 Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard - Gadget Review - Productive! Show #77

🏝 ✏️ Teleworking in Nozbe - why we all work from home, from anywhere, without any office…

July 2014

📱 📽 🎬 Why I’m working only on my iPad? Quick, pecha-kucha, 6min explanation by yours truly - Productive! Show #76

📽 🎬 Productivity gadget review: Sugru - go fix something - Productive! Show #75

✔️ Want to build your digital productivity system? Start with these three apps: Evernote, Dropbox and Nozbe (duh!)

✔️ Weekly Read, Episode 1 (interesting things I read and wanted to share with you)

📙 Productive! Magazine 21 with Pat Flynn - about passive income and uber-productivity

🎾 📽 🎬 Why doing sports regularly is so great and so important… and how it makes me feel! - Productive! Show #74

🎾 🕹️ Why running almost barefoot with Vibram FiveFingers is good for my health and fitness.

June 2014

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Creating Passive Income - interview with Pat Flynn for the Productive Magazine #21

✅ 📽 🎬 How to apply a Nozbe Productivity Sticker? Productive! Show #72

🎾 😎 ✏️ How I became leaner, healthier and stronger? My first 6 months of 2014 in detail: slow carb diet, new eating habits and a lot more regular exercise.

📖 Born To Run by Christopher McDougall - (audio) book of the week

📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Joost Wouters, author of 15-minute inbox for the Productive! Magazine #20

✅ 👨🏼‍💻 WWDC’14 - iOS8, Mac OSX Yosemite and our Nozbe 2.0 development = my crazy ideas :-)

✅ 💼 👨🏼‍💻 How to design a productivity app? Our Nozbe 2.0 design process

May 2014

📱 💻 👨🏼‍💻 ✏️ iPad Pro? No, we don’t need a hybrid but better processes and apps (and more RAM)

📖 People who contributed to my free book: “It’s all about Passion” - some really inspiring quotes

📖 🎂 Today I turn 35. I’ve got a gift for you. My new book: “It’s all about Passion”

📽 🎬 Un-schedule and Pomodoro Technique with Augusto Pinaud - Productive! Show #69

🎾 😎 My first triathlon - excitement, self-doubt, drama and joy - how I won my fight with the resistance

💻 👨🏼‍💻 ✏️ Why my Macbook Pro is the last PC I’ll ever buy or need

April 2014

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Chris Brogan for the Productive! Magazine #19

😎 ✏️ Yes, I’m a Christian (Roman-Catholic) and I believe Jesus Christ to be my Savior

📖 Why We Get Fat? by Gary Taubes - (audio) book of the week

March 2014

📲 The phone is just an app I sometimes use on my iPhone

✈️ 💼 ✅ Back in Japan! Why it’s Nozbe’s second home.

📱 📽 🎬 My favorite iPad keyboards & stands - Productive!Show #67

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Scott Belsky - Productive! Magazine #18

🍎 ✏️ Apple’s next big thing? iCar. Why Apple buying Tesla actually makes sense.

February 2014

📽 🕹️ 🎬 Why you should get a whiteboard? - Productive!Show #65

📙 💼 ✏️ Productive! Magazine going regular, global and local

📙 Productive! Magazine #17 with Brian Tracy is out! Enjoy!

📽 🕹️ 📱 🎬 My slim iPad Air gadget bag - Productive!Show #64

✅ 💼 ✏️ 7 years running Nozbe… and just getting started!

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Brian Tracy interview - Productive!Show #63

January 2014

🍎 💻 ✏️ Me and Mac. A “love in the air” story

💼 ✏️ 5 things I love about my work and why it gets me excited every day

🏠 📽 🎬 My Home office 2013 - Productive!Show #62

💼 ✏️ I’m officially a decade-long entrepreneur and loving it!

📙 Productive! Magazine on the Android phone, tablet or phablet near you

🗓 ✏️ 2013 was great and for 2014 I intend to keep running in biz & life :-)

2013

December 2013

📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Les McKeown for the Productive! Magazine #16 - Productive! Show #61

✅ 😎 ✏️ How to never forget to pay your bills (thanks to Nozbe)

😎 ✏️ Moral compass. On being honest and what I’m doing every day to make better decisions.

November 2013

📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Stever Robbins - Productive! Show #60

📲 💼 ✏️ I, NO robot. Android or iPhone or iPad? It’s beyond specs, let’s talk privacy.

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Marten Mickos for the Productive! Magazine #15 - Productive! Show #59

📖 Online Business Productivity - book of the week by Timo Kiander

📖 Book of the week - Remote by 37signals

📱 ✏️ iPad is just a PC? A kinda PC without keyboard? Or is it?

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Michael Bungay Stanier of Box Of Crayons - Productive! Show #58

😎 ✏️ This is our Independence Day!

📱 📽 🎬 Unboxing the iPad Air and first impressions - Productive! Show #57

📙 📽 🎬 Productive! Magazine re-launched as iOS app - Productive! Show #56

October 2013

📙 ✏️ Magazine re-launching soon as an iPad/iPhone and Android app

💼 ✏️ Luck is what ultimately matters… but you can help it!

September 2013

💼 ✏️ Control is good but trust is better

💼 ✏️ Why I hate email and what I’m planning to do about it

August 2013

💼 ✏️ Growing the team and creating our very first V2MOM documents

📱 📖 ✏️ You don’t need permission to change the world: how I co-authored, self-published and best-seller’ed my first book

July 2013

😎 ✏️ How my entrepreneurial parents inspired me to start a company

📱 📽 🎬 New Show - #iPadOnly book - which iPad (mini or Retina) to choose as your main computer to be most productive?

📱 📽 🎬 #iPadOnly book show - interview with my co-author: Augusto Pinaud - Productive Show #54

June 2013

📱 📖 How I wrote the #iPadOnly book with Augusto Pinaud

May 2013

✔️ 🎬 Launching 10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity Course

🕹️ 📲 How my iPhone became my minimalist wallet and why I’m loving it

📖 The Start-Up of You by Reid Hoffmann - (audio)book of the week

April 2013

✅ 🌎 🎬 I’m very proud of: New @Nozbe 1.5 suite of apps, including New Webapp, iPhone, iPad and Android tablet apps

😎 ✏️ Take the blame. It’s really your fault. Learn from it.

📖 Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath - (audio)book of the week

📱 ✏️ Mini or Maxi? Which iPad is good for you?

🏝 📽 🎬 Starbucks Weekly Review - Productive! Show 53

💼 ✏️ Why peer support is critical to your success

💼 🎬 GoPro story - a decade-long “overnight” success

🌎 😎 This is something I’ve been struggling with recently: Getting Your Family On Board with Life Changes

🌎 😎 If life would be like that, it’d be boring: Just the good parts

🌎 📱 It’s been only three years since unveiling and now it’s my main machine: The iPad

🌎 😎 How we should embrace and follow it: The Secret to Overcoming Any Fear

📖 Writer’s books - Bird by Bird (Anne Larnott) and On Writing Well (William Zinsser) - (audio)books of the week

🌎 😎 I also work like this: 30 Minutes

March 2013

📖 Icarus Deception by Seth Godin - (audio)book of the week

🌎 💼 Totally agree: Why Every Company Needs A ‘No Bozos’ Policy

⌨️ ✏️ Blog, link-blog… or both - my new blogging test

📽 🎬 How to go paperless in three steps - Productive Show 52

✔️ Delegation - achieving your goals together with others

✔️ 😎 Combating the Resistance - 10-step productivity course recorded!

February 2013

✔️ ✏️ Fighting resistance when being scared

💻 Time Machine Backup with Size Limit on Mac OSX Mountain Lion

🤩 ✔️ I am number four

✅ 💼 ✔️ ✏️ A definitive interview with me - Michael Sliwinski’s story - it’s all about passion!

January 2013

🎾 📽 🎬 How skiing a difficult slope helps tackle big problems - Productive! Show episode 51

✔️ 💼 ✏️ Can you “give” productivity? Or is productivity a feature of character?

📖 The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande - (audio)book of the week

🎾 ✏️ My fitness summary for 2012 - running, exercising and losing weight

📱 ✏️ Part 18 - My life in the cloud thanks to the iPad

📖 The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg - (audio)book of the week

⌨️ ✏️ Simplifying branding - why I am Michael Sliwinski DOT com

📱 💼 ✏️ Who can do their day job effectively on the iPad?

2012

December 2012

📙 Productive! Magazine 14 with Augusto Pinaud

✔️ Remembering Zig Ziglar 1926-2012

📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Augusto Pinaud for the Productive! Magazine #14

November 2012

💼 ✏️ Real praise, long haul and delivering customer happiness

😎 ✏️ Giving thanks for good to TV, Radio and Newspapers

😎 📱 ✏️ Syncing family in the cloud - two ways to set up iCloud with your spouse

💼 ✏️ Why after almost 6 years I’m more excited about Nozbe than ever

October 2012

📲 📽 🎬 To buy or not to buy an iPhone 5? - Productive! Show #49

📱 💻 ✏️ Part 16 - why I (still need a Mac Mini - iPad as my main computer

🏠 Simplifying Productive! Home Office in 2012

✔️ ✏️ 10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity Course to be launched soon!

September 2012

📲 ✏️ iPhone 5 - why I love it but won’t take it just yet

😎 ✏️ Indestructibles - Hermann Maier and Robert Kubica

📱 ✏️ Part 15 - why iPhone matters - iPad as my main computer

📱 ✏️ Part 14 - AppleTV air-plays magically - iPad as my main computer

📱 ✏️ Part 13 - KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid! - iPad as my main computer

📙 Productive! Magazine 13 with Graham Allcott

August 2012

✔️ ✏️ Getting Tasks Done vs Managing Tasks

📱 ✏️ Part 12 - web sites as apps (appification? - iPad as my main computer

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Graham Allcott interview for the Productive! Magazine #13 (Show #48)

💼 ✏️ Build a passionate startup!… or 7 types of passion

💼 ✏️ How to handle a crisis situation in a startup?

📱 ✏️ Part 11 - Docs and Spreadsheets and Mountain Lion - iPad as my main computer

July 2012

✔️ ✏️ Power of Unschedule and Pomodoro Technique

📱 📽 🎬 My must-have iPad accessories for the road (Productive! Show #47) vs Steve Wozniak’s bag

📱 ✏️ How I use Evernote

June 2012

💼 ✏️ Wearing many hats while running a business

📽 🎬 Why Responsive Web Design matters - Productive Show #46

📖 🍎 Insanely Simple by Ken Segall - audio book of the week

💼 ✏️ Your biggest competitor? You!

📱 ✏️ Part 10 - They Keyboard, or the lack of it - iPad as my main computer

📖 Start with Why by Simon Sinek - audio book of the week

📱 ✏️ Part 9 - Social Media - iPad as my main computer

📽 🎬 Scanning Business Cards using Photobooth on the Mac (or iPad) - Productive! Show #45

📱 ✏️ Part 8 - The back-end magic - iPad as my main computer

✅ 🍎 Nozbe means Productivity on the Mac App Store

😎 ✏️ 143 pieces of clothing

May 2012

📱 Part 7 - Simplifications and Annoyances - iPad as my main computer

📱 Part 6 - Portability and Fun - iPad as my main computer

📙 What’s inside of Productive! Magazine #12 with Jason Womack? Great articles!

✈️ Traveling America - Tips and Tricks

April 2012

😎 Seven years married to my best friend

📱 ✈️ Part 5 - Traveling - iPad as my main computer

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Productivity with Jason Womack - video interview for Productive! magazine #12

📱 Part 4 - Email, clouds and APIs - iPad as my main computer

📱 Part 3 - Designing Flows and a HomeScreen - iPad as my main computer

💻 📽 🎬 Dual-monitor setup for twice the productivity - Productive! Show #43

📱 Part 2 - Writing - iPad as my main computer

📱 Part 1 - the Clouds - iPad as my main computer

📱 iPad as my main computer - prologue

📙 Productive! Magazine iPad app updated for the Retina Display of the iPad3

✔️ Trick: how to write long emails without typing much

March 2012

✔️ Benefits of splitting a day

🙁 Thoughts on piracy, greed and entitlement

💼 🙁 That which does not kill us makes us stronger

🏠 📽 🎬 I’m still standing! Stand-up desk and productivity - Productive! Show #42

✔️ How many inboxes do you have? Here are mine

February 2012

💼 Giving benefit of a doubt to everyone!

✔️ First thing you do in the morning

📽 🎬 Paper Pad helps me focus - Productive! Show #41

📲 ✔️ Recording and Editing videos on iPhone4S is quick and great!

📖 The Now Habit by Neil Fiore - overcoming procrastination - audiobook of the week

✅ 💼 5 years helping folks get things done

😎 Stop at red light

🌎 🤩 ✅ Leading from a distance

📙 Productive! Magazine #11 with Gretchen Rubin

January 2012

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Gretchen Rubin for the Productive! Magazine #11

😎 The importance of counting things

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Guy Kawasaki for the Productive! Magazine #2

💼 Being mentored while mentoring

🍎 ✔️ Focus like Steve Jobs

📽 🎬 Touch typing is important! - Productive! Show #38

✔️ I still prefer to have goals

💼 My 3 Words for 2012: Build, Ship, Disrupt

2011

December 2011

😎 Why you should reconcile with old friends

📖 The Power of the Positive No by William Ury - book of the week

💼 Leading a startup should be like driving a modern car

💻 🕹️ ✈️ 21 must-have gadgets of a road-warrior

📖 The 10 Top Distinctions between Millionaires and the Middle Class by Keith Cameron Smith - book of the week

November 2011

📖 🍎 Thoughts & Quotes from Steve Jobs Biography by Isaacson

💼 Subscribification

📙 Seth Godin in Productive! Magazine #10

💼 Why a fallback option is your best bet

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Seth Godin interview for Productive! Magazine #10

October 2011

🎾 📽 🎬 Fitness for Busy Professionals - Productive! Show #36

✈️ 💼 Enjoying business of software

✅ 🏝 Nozbe retreat - how to recharge batteries of your team

🍎 Final Act of Steve Jobs

💼 Bootstrapped - My European Pirate Summit Talk

🏠 Cable management in my home office 2011

September 2011

📽 🎬 Unedited 15 min. Interview with Jason Fried of 37signals

😎 💼 Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should

💼 😎 Feed your curiosity. Try things out. Learn. Grow

💼 Unfollowing everyone and starting fresh

🙁 ⌨️ Rant no more

📖 Blink by Malcolm Gladwell - audiobook of the week

📙 🎬 Productive! Magazine #9 and #1 on the iPad

😎 Labor Day - a reason to celebrate love for work

August 2011

📙 Productive! Magazine #9 PDF with Laura Stack is out!

📙 📽 🎬 Laura Stack Productivity Pro ® is on the cover of the Productive! Magazine #9

🍎 💼 How Steve Jobs inspired me as an entrepreneur

📖 Do the Work by Steven Pressfield - book of the week

✔️ I don’t mind waiting. You shouldn’t too

💼 Manual gearboxes - why one-upping doesn’t work

📖 The Modern Meeting Standard - book of the week

✔️ Healthy Productivity vs Overworking

✔️ Learn to politely decline - saying no for dummies like me

📖 Sol Stein on Writing - audiobook of the week

😎 Power of the subconscious mind

July 2011

✈️ 💼 Actively talk to people when traveling… and socializing

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 David Allen interview for our re-launch of Productive! Magazine #1 on the iPad

✔️ 5 tricks to keeping your email inbox at zero

💻 Mac OSX Lion Secure Backup to Time Capsule with size limit

✔️ 💻 Multiple Monitors boost productivity… a lot

😎 Decisions and Consequences - taking calculated risks

📖 🍎 The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation - Audiobook of the week

💼 Leaders need to push people more

😎 100 things challenge to become a zen minimalist master

📖 Outliers - the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell - Audiobook of the week

✈️ 💼 Passion attracts Passion

✔️ Why Japanese people are so productive

June 2011

💼 Google Plus - I ain’t bothered

✈️ Unify carry-on cabin luggage size - open letter to the EU Commission

🌎 🎬 Video Friday: Spanish crisis, coffee and writer

⌨️ Losing time when seeking a perfect blog post

📙 Jason Fried in the Productive! Magazine #8

May 2011

✔️ Prepare your next day in the evening

✈️ 💼 Usabilidade = destroy silos - notes from UXLX Conference in Lisbon

✈️ 💼 My visit to 37signals Masterclass in Chicago

✔️ Mindmapping for Weekly Review and brainstorming

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Jason Fried of 37signals interviewed for Productive! Magazine #8

April 2011

📲 One iPhone to rule them all

✈️ 🕹️ 📽 🎬 Travel light with carry-on only - show #32

March 2011

✈️ 💼 Up-in-the-air style business trip packing

✅ 😎 ✈️ #publicNozbe - simply help someone in Japan

February 2011

😎 📖 Recording Voice memos while Reading Audiobooks

📙 Why the Productive! Magazine iPad app is free

📙 📱 Productive! Magazine iPad app tops Appstore charts! Thank you!

💻 Cloud storage approach… my recommendations?

🍎 💼 Your New Affiliate Partner is Apple thanks to Subscriptions

📙 ✅ Lucky number 7 for Magazine and Nozbe

📙 Download Productive Magazine #7 with Michael Hyatt about productivity, leadership and social media

✔️ 😎 The Art of Being on Time

🎤 📙 📽 🎬 Interview with Michael Hyatt for Productive Magazine 7 - Show #31

💼 Playing where the puck is going to be

January 2011

💻 Migrating to a new computer is too easy… if it’s a Mac

💼 😎 Why college education is still very relevant

✅ 💼 Forget Crunchies. Let people vote with money.

🏠 📽 🎬 Clutter-free Home Office designed for GTD - Productive! Show #30

📽 Subscribe to Productive Firm Show on iTunes

📖 Making Ideas Happen - Audiobook of the week

🤩 Yours truly - Michael of Nozbe on WorkAwesome podcast

✔️ A New Policy for 2011 is better than a Resolution

2010

December 2010

💼 Eliminate negativity pro-actively

📙 📱 Productive Magazine #6 iPad app with #5 inside :-)

💻 Finally Macbook Air done right. The 2010 model rocks

🍎 💼 3 lessons learned from Steve Jobs coming back to Apple

🌎 TGIF: 4-hour body, Failures and Entrepreneurship

📖 Fascinate by Sally Hogshead - audiobook of the week

✈️ 🏝 McDonald’s - my remote office of choice

November 2010

🏠 Zen in My New 2010 Clutter-free Home Office

📖 The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick - audiobook of the week

📙 📽 🎬 Productive Magazine #6 Walkthrough Video

✔️ 💻 Single-tasking is good for you!

📙 How to work less and do more - Stever Robbins in Productive! Magazine #6

📖 Eat that frog! Brian Tracy’s take on procrastination - audiobook of the week

🍎 💻 📱 Dear Apple - iPad is NOT a personal device like iPhone

🌎 Friday links: Travel, Remote Working and Pirates

✈️ 📽 🎬 Smartphone vs Laptop on Weekend Trips (to London - Episode #28

📖 The Little Big Things by Tom Peters - Audiobook of the week

✔️ Getting Weekly Review done… after 2 months

October 2010

📙 📱 🎬 Productive Magazine iPad App - perfect reading experience on the iPad

📖 ✔️ Reading audiobooks and absorbing content

💻 📽 🎬 Office in a Bag - Macbook Air & Accessories for Road Warrior - Episode #26

🍎 💻 New Macbook Air seduces me again…

✈️ 📽 🎬 Processing BIG Inbox after Travel

💼 You can lose your face only once… so don’t!

⌨️ Welcome to the Productive Firm - new home of Productive! Magazine and Show

September 2010

😎 💼 Get a Degree and Change the World!

💼 Product Guys succeed and inspire

📙 📽 🎬 Productive Magazine #5 Walkthrough

✅ 🏠 Don’t disturb - genius at work

📲 ✈️ 🍎 Apple Store “Waiting in line for iPhone 4” experience

📙 Productive Magazine #5 available! Miguel Guía interview about art, passion, habits and more!

August 2010

📙 📽 🎬 Productive Magazine #5 interview with Miguel Guía

💼 Pecha-Kucha Style Presentations Rock!

🤩 Me & Productivity on International Television BBC

📖 Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh - audiobook of the week

July 2010

😎 Minimalism feels fantastic

😎 ✔️ Don’t be like waiters memorizing orders

✔️ How many emails are you NOT receiving?

✔️ Clearing Pile of Email after business trip

✔️ Handling email on business trips

😎 Democracy is our privilege

June 2010

💼 ✈️ 😎 Enjoying Lifestyle Business

🤩 📽 🎬 Productivity as a body: Diet and Exercise - TEDxVolcano

🎾 💼 To keep on winning, you need to keep on pushing it. In business, life… and football (soccer)

✔️ Pomodoro technique and other simple ways to get focused… now!

🍎 📲 💼 Thoughts on iPhone 4 - Apple simply ships

🌎 💼 🎬 Friday Readership: Seth Godin says we should ship now, ship often

📖 Audiobook of the week: Zig Ziglar’s Better than Good

May 2010

🙁 🎾 Sebastian Vettel of F1 - sport fails to inspire when talent is mixed with no integrity

📖 Audiobook of the week: Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath

✈️ Taxi in a foreign city or country - a feeling of being cheated or robbed… at hello

✅ 💼 5 Tips on Creating Subscription Plans in a Startup - Nozbe case

April 2010

📖 Book of the Week: The Knack - your ultimate entrepreneurship bible

😎 Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away.

💼 Zen Home-Working Environment - a cool business idea

🙁 📖 💼 Digital content - people don’t want to steal. Unless you want them to.

🍎 📱 💻 I have to admit this - 5 reasons why iPad is the future of computing

🙁 When President is killed, country’s identity is strong… but hurting…

📱 💻 IMDB - how Apple’s iPhone or iPad interface makes ugly web site beautiful

March 2010

💻 Simple camcoders help me simply record stuff. In HD, too.

✔️ Never give up. Just do it. Nike.

📙 📽 🎬 Productive Magazine Issue 4 with Leo Babauta

📙 Productive! Magazine #4 available! Leo Babauta interview and productivity tips and tricks.

📖 Book review: SWITCH by Heath brothers - a positive way to change

🎾 📖 📽 🎬 “Reading” Audiobooks while doing sports - Productive! Show

📖 Review of 37signals’ cookbook called REWORK - getting business done

💼 TEDx event - passion is all around us… and so the feeling grows

📲 📖 Power of e-readers and audiobooks - productivity for the impatient

February 2010

✅ 💼 ✔️ CEO of a small company needs to eat his dogfood. It’s yummy!

🤩 Guest @Context with Tara Rodden Robinson and Augusto Pinaud

🌎 Friday readership: On writing books and worrying

💼 Why are so many smart people re-inventing the wheel?

💻 🕹️ 📽 🎬 Double-backup Luggage in Airplanes

📱 Avatar - massive usage of Apple iPads and Touch Computing

🎾 😎 Adam Malysz - my perfect, humble and inspiring role model

📲 ✔️ Re-discovering productivity-boosting podcasting

✈️ 📽 🎬 Efficient Traveling and Switching Planes

🏝 ✔️ 3 productivity tips and tricks for open space workers in California’s Silicon Valley offices

🍎 📱 7 ways the new Apple iPad will increase your productivity

January 2010

🍎 On stage like Apple’s Steve Jobs: 3 Mistakes to avoid when presenting

💼 Serious Corporations use “serious business language”. They don’t speak English

📽 🎬 New Year’s Resolutions for 2010 - GTD style :-)

😎 A tale of a proud father - how my baby daughter made my life richer

✔️ Productivity 101: Power of a “boring” structured day

📲 Google launched an iPhone and forgot to innovate. Where’s the passion?

✔️ 💻 Productivity tip: Online screen sharing and collaboration with Skype

2009

December 2009

😎 Have a nice day - everyday words that make a difference - not only on Christmas

🏠 Clutter-free 2009 Productive Home Office

📲 🍎 UX Confessions of an iPhone and Mac paranoid fanatic

💼 URL shortening services just in time for short-cial media

💼 Y-Combinator vs Seedcamp - Paul Graham nailed it?

🌎 💼 Friday Readership - Business Motivational Quotes, eBook readers and Meetings

💼 Open ID is for geeks… Facebook and Twitter are not… and win!

💼 LeWeb discussions - where are multimillionaire startup owners in Europe?

✔️ 🏠 New uncluttered space is a place for creative thinking

November 2009

💼 Money back guarantee - risk free shopping is good for you

😎 Thanksgiving - what I’m thankful for this year

💼 Ikea is good enough - power of instant furniture and relatively few choices

💻 Google Chrome OS - 7 seconds to internet - doesn’t look for floppy - promotes the Cloud

⌨️ Dear diary - after more than two weeks of blogging by email

🕹️ ✔️ GTD Notetaker Wallet - why pen and paper is still cool in high-tech world

✔️ ⌨️ Zen To Done - 30 days to get a habit - early rising and blogging

💼 There is no such thing as customer support department

😎 Responsibility - Response-ability - ability to respond and react the way you want

✔️ How to start something you know you have to but you don’t feel like

📖 Tribal Leadership - how to convert organizations into tribes that change the world

🌎 💼 How I work series on Inc. - how my guru CEO’s love their work

✅ ✔️ Constraints should be obligatory - limit your choice to make good decisions

🌎 💼 This week’s stories - be prepared when speaking, make sure you can handle trolls and go for a rapid growth

💻 Is Google Wave an Email 2.0 service? What about Inbox Zero?

💼 Steady profits of a startup are not sexy, zillions of users are.

📽 🎬 Early Risers Get Things Done

🎾 💼 F1 Pit Lane - Iterate Quickly and Focus on the Essential

October 2009

🍎 Removing features, noise and buttons to make your product perfect - like Apple Mighty Mouse

⌨️ A blog with email - by the Twitter user called MichaelNozbe

🤩 On GTD Virtual Study Group explaining Nozbe

September 2009

📽 🎬 Areas of Constant Improvement - not just focus.

🏝 📽 🎬 Productive Office - find your best place to get stuff done

August 2009

📙 Not all productive People are on vacations - 6 thousand downloads so far…

📙 Productive Magazine issue #3 with Michael Bungay Stanier (August 2009

📙 📽 🎬 Productive Magazine #3 Reloaded - Take 2 - new design - new show

📙 📽 🎬 Introduction to the Productive Magazine issue #3

July 2009

💻 📽 🎬 My Productive Computer - Unboxing Apple Macbook Air 2.13 SSD

📽 🎬 Passion - the ultimate productivity driver

⌨️ Launch of our sister site - Productive! Show - ProductiveShow.com

May 2009

📙 120,000 views of the Productive Magazine on Issuu

📙 Get your print version of Productive Magazine for just a few bucks!

April 2009

📙 4000+ downloads in the first 24 hours - issue #2 hits it!

📙 Get your Productive Magazine 2 with Guy Kawasaki and 10 great articles

📽 🎬 Capture tools help get stuff done

📽 🎬 Inboxes for different purposes

✈️ 🎬 GTDSummit stuff - Interview with David Allen by Lifehacking.nl

March 2009

✈️ 💼 Meet the Editor and Nozbe 2.0 at the GTD Summit in San Francisco

2008

December 2008

📖 Making it All Work - grab your new book by David Allen!

💻 🍎 Macbook Air rocks. 5 things PC notebook manufacturers will never understand.

💼 Celebrating 5 years of online entrepreneurship

🏠 Why I love my clutter-free cabinet as a 2008 home office

November 2008

📙 20 000 downloads in the first week. I’m psyched!

📙 Why do we need the Productive! Magazine? Let’s rediscover the obvious.

📙 We’ve been Lifehacked… and it feels great!

📙 Did you print your Productive Magazine copy?

📙 1st Productive Magazine launched!

📙 📽 🎬 Intro to the Productive Magazine

October 2008

📽 🎬 My Simple Email setup with IMAP

September 2008

📽 🎬 I Phone people in my car

August 2008

📽 🎬 Speed Reading Magazines

📽 🎬 Processing Email to Zero

📙 😎 Tribute to Marc Orchant

📙 From the Editor - Welcome to the Social Productivity Wisdom

July 2008

✅ 📲 Preview of the new iNozbe - native iPhone app

📽 🎬 Get a life outside of Email

🌎 💼 🎬 Harmony, Cubism of Picasso and Nike of Samothrace

June 2008

📽 🎬 How to Empty your Inbox effectively

📽 🎬 The power of a mighty Inbox

✅ ¡Organízate con Eficacia! (Nozbe.es) - Nozbe in Spanish

🌎 ✔️ Make your life harder… to get more done!

📽 🎬 2-Minute Rule for quick processing

📽 🎬 Introduction to the 2-Minute Productivity Show

May 2008

✅ ✔️ 🎬 10-Step Simply Get Things Done Course using Nozbe version 1 (2007-2009)

🌎 ✔️ GTD at Home - Your Family Can Get Things Done!

🌎 ✔️ “It’s just 2 minutes!… and it’s a lot of time!”

🌎 ✔️ The Power of Cranking Widgets

April 2008

🌎 ✔️ Natural Born GTDers and their habits: are you one of the few?

⌨️ Welcome to my Internet Business Productivity Blog