Hello, I’m Michael Sliwinski, founder of Nozbe - to-do app for business owners and their teams. I write essays, books, work on projects and I podcast for you using #iPadOnly in #NoOffice as I believe that work is not a place you go to, it’s a thing you do.
How my life influences my business and the other way round. How I design my lifestyle and how I succeed or fail in the process.
How has my long term thinking impacted my attitude towards skiing? Yes, seriously, there’s a connection and a good one!
🤒 Sick in bed with your laptop 🧑💻 on your lap? Working through fever and flu? Working from home when sick? Should you, or should you not? 📅 Today, February 11 is World Day of the Sick. It feels like a good moment to talk about something uncomfortable about remote work.
I’m a big fan (and member) of ATP podcast and one of the co-hosts, Casey Liss created this great app called Callsheet which is an amazing way to learn about movies, shows and actors. Much better than IMDB. For my Polish podcast Nadgryzieni we use this app to look up movies so I decided to build a shortcut that would easily let me share a link from this app to the official TMDB link.
Exactly 10 years ago I wrote a blog post saying, that when people ask me after my success with Nozbe, what’s next for me - I answer - more of Nozbe - next version of Nozbe!
Back in 2019 we were tempted by our friends to rent a motorhome for a week and enjoy driving and camping with them in the beautiful country of Sweden. We loved it and after COVID, since 2022 we’ve been renting a motorhome every year for two weeks to visit Scandinavia. It’s become our family tradition. Here are my best tips and tricks when traveling with a family in a motorhome:
Back in April of 2012 I started my #iPadOnly journey with a retina iPad 3. Turns out this 13-year old device can be still pretty useful. A few years back I put it on the wall of my home office but recently I moved it to the kitchen and it’s awesome there:
Yesterday I wrote about billionaires and their newspapers like Washington Post or LA Times not having the freedom (or guts) to endorse Kamala Harris. Shame on them. Today New York Times posted a great paragraph showing why we have to get rid of Trump and aspiring autocrats like him once and for all:
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.
I love musicals and I’m a huge fan of the Hamilton musical since I saw it first in London on West-end in 2019. Later it came to Disney+ with the original cast and the brilliant Lin-Manuel Miranda (see trailer below) and we’ve been having regular screenings with friends and family in our home. Later we took our entire family (including our three daughters) to see the show again on West-end in London in 2022. But that’s not all, as both my wife and me speak German, we even travelled to Hamburg in Germany, to attend a German-version of Hamilton last year. Our entire family is crazy about this show. We listen to the entire soundtrack in the car. And my eldest daughter got herself a shirt that says: “My thoughts have been replaced by Hamilton lyrics” which inspired me to write this post:
Exactly 7 years ago today, I took ownership of my first ever new car. I remember being very apprehensive about getting such an expensive car, even though I had a unique opportunity of getting it at significant discount. I was studying its price list very diligently trying to find the perfect balance of specs, extras and value for money. Turns out, this car has aged exceedingly well and not only do I keep driving my family in it today, but we are immensely enjoying it. Here are 7 outstanding features that I still enjoy after 7 years of ownership of Audi Q7:
