Monday, March 31, 2025 /2024/
Last year was my most difficult year as an entrepreneur. I feel like I’ve hit rock bottom but… luckily managed to bounce back. Hopefully now the only way is up and to the right! But yeah, 2024 was something else… that’s why I procrastinated writing this summary, my 11th one and published it only now, at the end of March, when we’re already 3 months in 2025… This will be my most candid yearly summary yet… hopefully this much transparency will serve other struggling entrepreneurs:
Monday, March 10, 2025 /office25/
After a longer stint with my home office (only with minor changes since 2022) it was time for some major re-modeling. I started with moving furniture around but then I upgraded basically everything: cables, Mac, teleprompter and much more. So stay tuned for my best home office yet!
Monday, February 3, 2025 /immature/
Nozbe - the productivity app that I founded back in February of 2007 is celebrating 18 years in business. To commemorate the occasion, we bid and won the cover of iMagazine (see below) as all the proceeds from this auction went to charity. So… my Nozbe app is now mature. However, as I’ve been preparing today for this Wednesday’s celebratory recording of the NoOffice FM Podcast, I’ve realized that I’ve been making some very immature decisions on my way to getting here:
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 /workshow/
Let me tell you how my small but global company Nozbe became a pioneer of the 4-day work week, thanks to Mighty Fridays! We introduced this concept in 2016 and it was so successful that two years later I was invited to talk about it on national Breakfast Television. Which followed many articles in local and national press about our company. What follows below is more-less my speech at a conference WORKsHOW 2025. Here goes:
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 /backpack/
Even though I’ve updated my travel gear list less than a year ago, I’ve upgraded a bunch of smaller and bigger (M4 iPad Pro) things this year, so I think it’s time for yet another update. Especially that this week is a Black Week with lots of good prices. Especially I’m providing Amazon links with my affiliate ID so by clicking on them not only you’ll see the deals but you’ll be also supporting this page. Thanks and enjoy!
Thursday, November 14, 2024 /twitter/
After many months of thinking, deliberating and soul-searching, I’ve decided to finally stop posting on my @MSliwinski account on X (formerly Twitter). If you want to follow me, feel free to do so on Mastodon or LinkedIn. Alternatively sign up for my Newsletter, which I’m sending every 2 weeks. If you’re curious how and why it came to this decision, here goes:
Monday, November 4, 2024 /freedom/
How is it possible, that two wealthiest people on the planet, with all the billions that they have, are not free to do whatever they want? Elon Musk not only destroyed the value of my beloved social media platform, Twitter (now X), but was jumping at a Trump rally. Jeff Bezos who owns Washington Post, blocked their endorsement for Kamala Harris. Billionaires, unlike us, are not free, because they have too much to lose.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 /money/
Last week, I had an interesting conversation with a fellow entrepreneur whose app is focused on marketing services. We talked about pricing, value and ultimately why people buy (or not) subscriptions to our apps. He pointed out that benefits of using Nozbe are not monetary unlike what he’s offering (bringing businesses leads that convert to revenue). After our conversation I was feeling confused. What about the old saying that time is money? Exactly!
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 /iphone15ultra/
Last Friday people were picking up their new iPhones and Watches and I wasn’t one of them (yet?) so I decided to write my thoughts on my (still) current iPhone 15 Pro and Apple Watch Ultra 2 which I got last year. How have they served me? What’s great? Good? Bad? Ugly?
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 /week/
I started Nozbe because I’m a disorganized person so I needed to keep studying productivity and implementing techniques to stay on track. One of these is a weekly template. I originally took this idea from Michael Hyatt and his ideal week but just recently Cal Newport explained it even better on his podcast. Below are my thoughts and additional notes from Cal’s episode:
