This will be the full archive of my main blog from way back when in 2008, until all is imported from my old blog Sliwinski.com… 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.
2020
December
⌨️ 🗓 My best blog posts of 2018
Thursday, December 3, 2020
🎙 No Office FM #8: Weekend Wednesday and new Nozbe Teams features
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
November
📱 📲 Gadgets for a geek like me for 2020 Christmas Holiday season
Monday, November 30, 2020
😎 What I’m thankful for this year
Thursday, November 26, 2020
📲 First impressions of the ultimate cuteness - the iPhone 12 Mini
Thursday, November 19, 2020
🎙 No Office FM #7: The Pyramid Of Communication
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
🤩 🎬 On Anything But Idle commenting on Apple Silicon M1 launch event
Friday, November 13, 2020
☑️ 🎥 Subscribe to my Team Productivity Show as an audio podcast!
Thursday, November 12, 2020
🏠 🎬 🎥 My Home Office 2020 walkthrough - Team Productivity Show #9
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
📱 📲 😎 Psst… don’t tell YouTube that I created a page to watch videos without being tracked 🤫
Thursday, November 5, 2020
📝 What’s up as of November 2?
Monday, November 2, 2020
October
🎙 No Office FM #6: How virtual Nozbe Reunion happened
Friday, October 30, 2020
🌎 🏝 Here’s how we organized a virtual team reunion in pandemic times
Thursday, October 29, 2020
🎙 No Office FM #5: How to deal with emails?
Friday, October 23, 2020
✅ ☑️ 🎬 Live demo walkthrough of Nozbe Teams - how to do GTD in teams?
Thursday, October 22, 2020
🤩 🎬 On “Anything But Idle” commenting on Apple Special Event (iPhone 12 launch)
Friday, October 16, 2020
📱 How to download video and audio from YouTube using youtube-dl on the iPad
Thursday, October 15, 2020
🏝 🎥 No Office Book Teaser - Team Productivity Show #8
Friday, October 9, 2020
⌨️ 🗓 My best blog posts of 2019
Thursday, October 8, 2020
😎 COVID-19 - what to do about that Coronavirus?
Monday, October 5, 2020
😎 How my uncle taught me which ice cream or dish to choose from a menu of options?
Thursday, October 1, 2020
September
🎬 💻 Achieve team success by working differently
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
🎙 No Office FM #3: Dogfooding
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
📖 😎 Just say “thank you”… because when you said “but”, you basically blew it!
Monday, September 28, 2020
💼 ✅ 17 commandments of work - my VISION for Nozbe team and Nozbe Teams product.
Thursday, September 17, 2020
📝 What I’m doing as of September 14
Monday, September 14, 2020
🏠 I hope my home office for 2020 will inspire you to set up your workspace!
Friday, September 11, 2020
🎙 No Office FM: The Power of Small Teams
Friday, September 4, 2020
⌚️ 😎 More than a year on the move or how Apple Watch rings help me stay in shape
Thursday, September 3, 2020
August
🎬 🎥 A vision for the company and a product - Team Productivity Show 7
Monday, August 31, 2020
📖 🏝 Teaser 1 of #NoOffice book - how you’re using your office wrong!
Thursday, August 27, 2020
🎙 No Office FM: Why there’s #NoOffice?
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
📱 A decade with an iPad - what a delightful computer!
Thursday, August 20, 2020
😎 When in doubt, just do the next right thing!
Thursday, August 13, 2020
🎬 🎥 Why, How and When of the #NoOffice book - Team Productivity Show 6
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
📖 🏝 Check out first 10 chapters of #NoOffice book and tell me WDYT
Thursday, August 6, 2020
📝 What I'm doing as of August 1
Saturday, August 1, 2020
July
☑️ Once a week to create a long-lasting habit
Thursday, July 30, 2020
✅ 🎬 Nozbe Teams launches today on Product Hunt!
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
⌨️ Small/big font and the magic of Sass and CSS on my blog
Sunday, July 26, 2020
📝 What I'm doing as of July 25
Saturday, July 25, 2020
⌨️ My new site Michael.team launches today!
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
June
🎥 🎬 Task-based communication - Team Productivity show 5
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
📝 What I'm doing as of June 26
Friday, June 26, 2020
🎧 The Podcast #208 - Smart teams work from home
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
🤩 On ProductivityCast about Nozbe Teams
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
💻 🎬 How Small Teams Can Do Great Things by Ditching Email & Meetings
Sunday, June 7, 2020
May
🎧 The Podcast #207 - Competition Gossip Corner
Friday, May 29, 2020
😎 41 - may you live in interesting times…
Monday, May 25, 2020
🎬 🎥 AMA - Ask Me Anything for 40th birthday - Team Productivity Show BONUS
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
😎 Getting Beard Done by shaving once a week, with a system!
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
April
📱 Backlit keyboard and more joys of using the Magic Keyboard - an accessory that makes the iPad Pro true to itself
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
🎬 📱 🎥 Magic Keyboard review - Team Productivity Show 4
Monday, April 20, 2020
🏠 I’ve seen the future of a modern office workplace and it is 💩
Sunday, April 19, 2020
🎧 The Podcast #206 - Radek’s Face Shield Factory
Saturday, April 18, 2020
😎 10 design principles by Dieter Rams
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
📱 The #iPadOnly book is an oldie but a goodie… and is free for you to read online!
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
🎧 The Podcast #205 - Chat about: kaizen & performance
Monday, April 6, 2020
March
🎧 The Podcast #204 - Core Hours
Friday, March 27, 2020
📱 How to correctly use a computer - the new iPad Pro with the new keyboard
Thursday, March 19, 2020
🎧 The Podcast #203 - Lean at Nozbe
Saturday, March 14, 2020
🎧 The Podcast #202 - The Machine That Changed The World
Friday, March 13, 2020
🎥 🎬 Special policy for Nozbe team as the COVID-19 takes over the world
Friday, March 13, 2020
🎬 🎥 Nozbe is a 2-product company - Team Productivity Show 2
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
February
🎧 The Podcast #201 - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k
Friday, February 28, 2020
💼 RIP Wunderlist - an app that changed the course of Nozbe for the better
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
🎬 🎥 Launching Michael’s Team Productivity vlog/podcast with 13 stories celebrating 13 years of Nozbe
Monday, February 24, 2020
🎧 The Podcast #200 - Best of The Podcast 🍾💯💯
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
January
🎧 The Podcast #199 - Art of Feedback
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
😎 RIP - Clay Innovation and Kobe Elevation - thank you for your inspiration!
Monday, January 27, 2020
🏠 📱 What’s on my desk? Here’s my re-designed stand up desk for 2020.
Thursday, January 23, 2020
🎧 The Podcast #198 - 2019 in Review
Sunday, January 19, 2020
☑️ My new journaling routine for 2020 using Shortcuts on iPad or iPhone
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
😎 11 years and counting - how my daughter is growing and I simply can’t believe it…
Monday, January 13, 2020
🎧 The Podcast #197 - Horizontal Responsibilities
Friday, January 10, 2020
🏝 📱 A child to a remotely-working dad: you’re just writing random stuff!
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
☑️ 🗓 2019 review - a transition year…
Sunday, January 5, 2020
☑️ 👨🏼💻 I challenge you to simplify your life in 2020
Friday, January 3, 2020
2019
December 2019
😎 LEGO - how I’m unleashing a child within me by building a new lego set every year (just for me!)
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
⌚️ Apple Watch series 5 review - the always-on screen is a huge deal!
Monday, December 23, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #196 - Hands Are Dirty
Friday, December 20, 2019
📱 My good old iPad 3 retina - the 2012 tablet that made me go #iPadOnly - is now on my wall and it works great!
Thursday, December 19, 2019
💼 Apple used to stand for something. Now they stand for nothing. Where’s Steve Jobs when we need him?
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
😎 When are you planning to retire? I don’t think I ever will!
Friday, December 13, 2019
🏠 My Home Office 2020 - Stage 1 - prototyping new ideas
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #195 - Gadgets, with love
Monday, December 9, 2019
November 2019
🎧 The Podcast #194 - Trendsetters
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #193 - Two-Product Company
Friday, November 15, 2019
October 2019
🎧 The Podcast #192 - Corrupted System
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
📲 Effortless photography. Why taking pictures with a modern smartphone feels like cheating.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #191 - Summer’s Gone
Friday, October 11, 2019
☑️ Pre-deciding is the key to success.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
⌚️ 🎾 Competing in an olympic-distance triathlon with an Apple Watch Series 4
Friday, October 4, 2019
😎 🎾 My 11th Olympic-distance triathlon - why I keep loving these 3 sports and why I keep sucking at them?
Thursday, October 3, 2019
September 2019
🤩 ☑️ Productivity technology and more at the Productivity Summit 2019
Monday, September 30, 2019
😎 Kidnapped and tweeting… something that’s just NOT true to you
Friday, September 27, 2019
🤩 Talking entrepreneurship on Project Kazimierz podcast
Thursday, September 26, 2019
🤩 Pyramid of Communication featured on Business Systems Summit
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
📖 ☑️ Why reading the same book again (or several times in life) is OK
Thursday, September 5, 2019
😎 It’s been 80 years since the start of the World War 2… and we still can’t appreciate the peace enough!
Monday, September 2, 2019
August 2019
😎 I’m too old for this, right? Wrong!
Friday, August 30, 2019
☑️ 📲 My new smartphone - iPhone SE - why I’m voluntarily switching to the slowest smartphone possible.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
☑️ Emailing like texting - how to get back to inbox zero and make every email a GTD “2-minute rule”
Monday, August 26, 2019
💼 Nozbe will not take any outside investment… nor will we build an office…
Friday, August 23, 2019
😎 Jesus was right. Love is all you need to answer what’s right or wrong!
Thursday, August 22, 2019
☑️ 😎 Focusing on the WHEN and not the HOW…
Thursday, August 15, 2019
📱 MKBHD goes iPadOnly and I really like his way of using the iPad!
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
🎾 Undertrained
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
☑️ 🎾 No Ironman - how I blew my dream because I was… late
Sunday, August 11, 2019
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!
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #190 - Webmaster is back!
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
💼 How to get rid of Zoom server from your Mac and why we need a non-SV video conferencing alternative
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #189 - Dub dub
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
June 2019
☑️ After 10 years, GTD Summit is back!
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
💼 MindBlower - un-official Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference symbol I’m giving away for free at the event
Monday, June 3, 2019
May 2019
🎧 The Podcast #188 - Michael 4.0
Friday, May 31, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #187 - Camino
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
😎 Michael 4.0 - redesigned and happier than ever
Monday, May 20, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #186 - The courage to be disliked
Friday, May 10, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #185 - Factfullness
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
April 2019
🎧 The Podcast #184 - Digital Minimalism
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #183 - N is 4 Nozbe
Friday, April 19, 2019
☑️ Challenge: social media sabbatical for a month
Thursday, April 18, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #182 - Purple Day
Thursday, April 4, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #181 - The Deadline
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
March 2019
🎧 The Podcast #180 - Childhood bribes
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #179 - Punished by rewards
Friday, March 22, 2019
📖 ☑️ 10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity book now available in Traditional Chinese!
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #178 - Complaining
Monday, March 18, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #177 - Planning Together
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
🗯 👨🏼💻 Digital Minimalism part 1 - fighting the compulsive iPhone checking - iMagazine column 19/03
Friday, March 1, 2019
February 2019
🎧 The Podcast #176 - Salary Formula
Thursday, February 21, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #175 - 100% Buzz-Free
Sunday, February 10, 2019
☑️ 📱 How intermittent journaling and some smart Siri shortcuts help me enjoy more intentional and productive days
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
☑️ 💼 How I learned JavaScript by studying source code of Basecamp… and how I keep learning programming by studying code written by others…
Monday, February 4, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #174 - 12 years of Nozbe
Friday, February 1, 2019
January 2019
🎧 The Podcast #173 - The Year of Purple
Thursday, January 24, 2019
🎾 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!
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
😎 💼 Nobody’s perfect from the beginning
Monday, January 21, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #172 - It doesn’t have to be crazy at work
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
😎 How tolerance of hate and extremism leads to the lowest point in the modern history of Poland
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
🎧 The Podcast #171 - 2018 in Review
Sunday, January 13, 2019
☑️ 🗓 2018 review - an ongoing personal and business development
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
💼 ✅ Having Nozbe featured as “App of the day” on the Apple App Store is great!
Friday, January 4, 2019
☑️ ⌨️ Why “lessons learned” is better than just “lessons” - or how I edit my writing…
Thursday, January 3, 2019
😎 What I’ve learned from my IG #2018bestnine photos
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
2018
December 2018
☑️ 😎 Time to start your annual review!
Friday, December 28, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #170 - Live intentionally
Saturday, December 22, 2018
🎬 📖 10 steps to Ultimate Productivity book walkthrough in just 2 minutes!
Friday, December 21, 2018
😎 Two organizations that do a great job of helping those in need
Thursday, December 20, 2018
☑️ 🗯 Essentialism is easier when you’re forced to choose what’s really important
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #169 - Bullshit jobs
Friday, December 14, 2018
📖 ☑️ BOOK LAUNCH - 10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity
Thursday, December 13, 2018
🏝 📱 Why in any company you should be using version control for anything - how we use Github not only for code, but also for writing!
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
💼 Stock market doesn’t make any sense to me as Microsoft is more valuable than Apple…
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
⌚️ 5 things I love about the Apple Watch series 4 after just a day of using it!
Monday, December 10, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #168 - Get bored
Friday, December 7, 2018
☑️ 📖 Introduction to my new book - 10 steps to Ultimate Productivity
Thursday, December 6, 2018
😎 🎾 So in the end I want to become an Ironman…
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
🎬 ☑️ Blast from the past - the “10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity” Video Course back from 2013 ahead of my book launch!
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
😎 How I’m keeping my coffee ☕️ warm using the Ember mug
Monday, December 3, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #167 - The clunky future
Saturday, December 1, 2018
November 2018
🤩 TV appearance! Nozbe’s TGIF - Thank Goodness It’s Friday on Polish national television - how to work smarter?
Friday, November 30, 2018
💼 Why I find joy in programming even though I don’t get to code much these days
Thursday, November 29, 2018
☑️ 💼 Would you pay 20 cents per day for increased productivity?
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #166 - Talk about size
Saturday, November 24, 2018
🎬 😎 I’m thankful for Robert Kubica being back as racing driver for Formula 1
Thursday, November 22, 2018
😎 15 years ago I stopped being friends with her… only to become her best friend ever as her husband
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
☑️ How HomePod turned me into a Siri enthusiast - I finally use voice to get stuff done!
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
☑️ 🗯 Why we need deadlines
Monday, November 19, 2018
🎬 🤩 Which mobile apps we use to run our Nozbe company? - video of my presentation at Mobiconf 2018
Saturday, November 17, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #165 - Let’s fix it!
Friday, November 16, 2018
🎬 📱 Video review - why I’m calling the 11” iPad Pro a “retro iPad”?
Thursday, November 15, 2018
📱 How my younger self convinced me to go with the smaller 11” iPad Pro
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
📱 📲 Quirks and issues when migrating to a new iOS device (case of iPad Pro 11” & iPhone XS)
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #164 - Why we do what we do
Monday, November 12, 2018
😎 💯 100 Years of Polish Independence 🇵🇱
Sunday, November 11, 2018
🎬 🏝 🤩 Why “No Office”? Why I’m running an all-remote company? - my presentation at Infoshare 2018
Saturday, November 10, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #163 - Joy of less
Friday, November 9, 2018
☑️ New habits before the year ends
Thursday, November 8, 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #162 - Backpack Only
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #161 - Talk to them!
Monday, November 5, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #160 - Building with hammers
Friday, November 2, 2018
October 2018
🎧 The Podcast #159 - Home Automation
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #158 - Sabbatical
Monday, October 29, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #157 - Watermelon 🍉
Friday, October 26, 2018
🏝 🤩 How digital nomads get stuff done - mobiconf 2018
Friday, October 5, 2018
September 2018
💻 How to find more focus at work
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #156 - Sport hacks
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #155 - Spreading the word
Monday, September 10, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #154 - Inevitable Convergence
Friday, September 7, 2018
July 2018
💼 Fake exhaust pipes in cars… or how brands undermine their stories…
Friday, July 27, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #153 - Attention required
Monday, July 23, 2018
🎬 ☑️ How to do a Weekly Review explained in 3 minutes (video)
Friday, July 20, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #152 - Power to the people
Thursday, July 12, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #151 - Nozbe: Automated
Thursday, July 5, 2018
🎾 Polish football - no heart, no passion… and a big disappointment
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #150 - Three years in
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
June 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #149 - Profit First
Friday, June 22, 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #148 - Don’t spend it all
Friday, June 15, 2018
🎾 😎 Golden State Warriors - how to keep eye on the prize and lead an unselfish team
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #147 - Shackles, please!
Friday, June 8, 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #146 - Magic of Tidying Up
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #145 - Don’t say that!
Friday, June 1, 2018
May 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #144 - Staring at a blank canvas
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #143 - How to spend money
Thursday, May 10, 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #142 - Aliens among us
Thursday, May 3, 2018
April 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #141 - Nozbe at Nozbe
Thursday, April 26, 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #140 - Raising the bar
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #139 - First tasks first
Thursday, April 19, 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #138 - Leap of faith
Monday, April 16, 2018
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #137 - Nomadic lifestyle
Friday, April 13, 2018
March 2018
🎧 The Podcast #136 - Traveling with apps
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
💻 A Checklist for the Most Productive Spring Cleaning
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #135 - Swiss army apps
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #134 - Nozbe for you
Thursday, March 8, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #133 - Better Than Before
Monday, March 5, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #132 - Reusable Rocketry
Friday, March 2, 2018
February 2018
🎧 The Podcast #131 - Singular focus of 2018
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #130 - 2017 Highlights
Monday, February 26, 2018
☑️ 🗓 2017 review: a learning curve!
Friday, February 2, 2018
📱 ☑️ Workflows that build regular habits and help me get stuff done quicker
Thursday, February 1, 2018
January 2018
🎧 The Podcast #129 - Letting go
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #128 - Values
Friday, January 19, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #127 - Burst projects vs keystone habits
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
💻 New Year’s Resolutions - How to plan your best year ever
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #126 - Inbox Non-Zero
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
👨🏼💻 📲 How I fell in love with the iPhone X – my review from a productivity guy’s perspective
Monday, January 8, 2018
🎧 The Podcast #125 - No speed limit
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
2017
November 2017
🎬 💻 Perfect Weekly Review - Friday Revolution Tips & Tricks
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
September 2017
🎬 💻 Back to Work - How to get your projects done by the end of the year?
Thursday, September 21, 2017
August 2017
🎬 💻 Webinar - AMA - Ask Michael Anything
Thursday, August 3, 2017
June 2017
🎬 💻 Effective planning tips for work and holidays
Thursday, June 22, 2017
May 2017
🎬 💻 Maximize TEAM productivity in 10 steps
Thursday, May 18, 2017
April 2017
🎬 💻 10 Practical Tips to Ultimate Productivity
Thursday, April 6, 2017
February 2017
🎬 💻 Our Productivity Evolution in the last 10 years of Nozbe
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
January 2017
🎬 💻 How to Get New Year’s Resolutions Done?
Thursday, January 12, 2017
2016
September 2016
🎬 💻 No Office Apps - how to work effectively in an all-remote team using moder
Thursday, September 29, 2016
August 2016
🎬 💻 Webinar - AMA - Ask Me Anything
Thursday, August 11, 2016
June 2016
🎬 💻 How to communicate through tasks and stop using email to get projects done
Thursday, June 30, 2016
May 2016
🎬 💻 How to get control of your tasks, project, goals and life in 10 steps
Wednesday, May 11, 2016