The Podcast is a podcast I’ve been recording with Radek, Nozbe’s VP of Engineering. After more than 4 years of pretty regular weekly shows, now it’s not as regular as we’d like. Subscribe
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🎧 The Podcast #209 - Lean house
We’re back recording The Podcast! after more than half a year of silence! And we geek out. Actually, Radek does as he explains how he’s managing his groceries (the same way the Japanese factories are doing lean manufacturing!). Let’s hope we’ll be recording more episodes in 2021 - please let us know if you want us back for good!
🎧 The Podcast #208 - Smart teams work from home
Last week on The Podcast we discussed if the pandemic is gone and if everyone got back to working from their offices… or not really… and should we double down on what we believe - on working the “modern way”, with work-from-home option, with flexible hours, with trust vs control? Here’s our discussion:
🎧 The Podcast #207 - Competition Gossip Corner
This week on The Podcast we are gossiping we’re talking about our favorite competition (and inspiration!), Basecamp guys pre-announcing a new version of their product for next year, and launching a new email service HEY - we’re just wondering what it’s all about…
🎧 The Podcast #206 - Radek’s Face Shield Factory
This week on The Podcast we discussed how my co-host turned from software engineer to “face shields” designer/manufacturer to support hospitals and other front-line workers in this pandemic. Amazing story:
🎧 The Podcast #205 - Chat about: kaizen & performance
Last week on The Podcast we had a discussion like no other - we tried a different format - where we just casually chat about kaizen and performance of our team…
🎧 The Podcast #204 - Core Hours
This week on The Podcast we discuss my latest invention - CORE HOURS - a concept that has helped me have a very productive start of the year… listen up as it’s really a great deal for me and can be a game-changer for you:
🎧 The Podcast #203 - Lean at Nozbe
This week on The Podcast we discuss how we’re implementing lean ideas from the last episode of the podcast into our day-to-day work:
🎧 The Podcast #202 - The Machine That Changed The World
Last week on The Podcast we discussed lean manufacturing and three books related to it: “The Machine that changed the world” (Amazon, Audible) , “2-second lean” (Amazon, Audible) and “Lean thinking” (Amazon, Audible) … and why these ideas are still applicable to us:
🎧 The Podcast #201 - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k
This week on The Podcast we have an explicit episode because the books that we discuss are “bold” - and they are a great entry to modern stoicism. Why we just care about too many things that don’t matter - and what to do about it:
🎧 The Podcast #200 - Best of The Podcast 🍾💯💯
Last week on The Podcast we celebrated the 200th episode - and to commemorate the milestone we prepared our “best of” of sorts - which episodes really impacted us, changed our lives, made us different / better? To find out, listen up!
🎧 The Podcast #199 - Art of Feedback
This week on The Podcast we discuss the proper way to give and receive feedback. No, it’s not as easy as it sounds:
🎧 The Podcast #198 - 2019 in Review
This week on The Podcast we take on annual review again - why it’s important, how we did it, what’s there for us this year… new ideas, new concepts… the episode got a little long but believe me it’s worth your time. Check it out and after that plan your year if you haven’t already:
🎧 The Podcast #197 - Horizontal Responsibilities
This week on The Podcast we discuss a concept of “horizontal responsibilities” in our vertically-built company. Inspired by “Holacracy”. How to run a company more like a city than an organization? Listen up!
🎧 The Podcast #196 - Hands Are Dirty
This week on The Podcast we discuss how “getting our hands dirty” by creating physical objects or renovating home office gives us joy and helps us disconnect from our day-to-day work at Nozbe and how it helps us explore ideas we normally don’t deal with:
🎧 🎬 The Podcast #195 - Gadgets, with love
We met again on Nozbe Reunion and recorded The Podcast live where we discussed gadgets - the ones our team has prepared for this meeting as well as the ones we recommend for traveling and much more. Watch on video or listen in audio (or both!)
🎧 The Podcast #194 - Trendsetters
This week on The Podcast we discuss Nozbe Teams again - this time how we had to morph from just a product company to a technology company - and the struggles we had along the way. It’s a longer one but a good one. Lots of behind-the-scenes info you rarely get from tech companies.
🎧 The Podcast #193 - Two-Product Company
Last week on The Podcast we discussed this new situation we’re in now - when we have Nozbe Teams almost ready to launch… while still running our current Nozbe product - our way to becoming a two-product company. Have a listen:
🎧 The Podcast #192 - Corrupted System
This week on The Podcast we completely went off script and instead of talking about Nozbe Teams Radek started complaining about fashion industry and it all went downhill from there… but I think you’ll gonna love it. Check it out! Watch this short teaser and listen to this episode below:
🎧 The Podcast #191 - Summer’s Gone
We’re back! After a 3-month hiatus we’re doing a quick re-cap of all the things that happened in our lives between our The Podcast recordings and from today on we’ll be back on a regular bi-weekly schedule. Many of the things we discussed today will be full-length episodes in the future, so make sure to let me know what you want us to discuss first! Watch this short teaser and listen to this episode below:
🎧 The Podcast #190 - Webmaster is back!
Recently on The Podcast I explained how I became “the webmaster” and launched not 1, not 2 but 3 web site projects. One for my children’s parents association, one for Nozbe team internally and new, Medium-free NoOffice.org. And we decided to take a break from podcasting for the summer. Watch this short teaser and listen to this episode below: