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.
Short blog posts that I sometimes just want to post out there. More like longer Tweets that I just want to keep on my blog instead of social media.
Did you know I spent 228 hours listening to podcasts in 2025? At 1.5x speed? A podcast creator (I co-host NoOffice.FM and Nadgryzieni.pl) is also a podcast consumer. Here are the podcasts I listened to the most and I recommend:
I love podcasting 🎧 and I’m an avid podcast listener and producer. Even though I’m busy developing my app Nozbe, I love sharing tips and tricks for our clients on the “No Office” podcast. This year, based on the amount of work we have on the app, I’ve decided to lower the frequency of the podcast to just once a month, but I want to make it count!
🖍️ I’ve had a whiteboard in my #homeoffice for years now and even though I don’t use it daily, I love having it there for those “deep thinking” sessions.
Design is how it works, right? This used to be Apple. Now they’re managed by Excel-obsessed Tim Cook and designers seemed to have forgotten how stuff works at all. Here’s the latest Apple Watch 26.2 and the “notifications” indicator keeps telling me that I have new notifications even if I’ve seen them all…
Turns out in technology, if you dig deep enough, life… uh… finds a way as Jeff Goldblum would say. After my USB-C all gifts post I got lots of cool suggestions for more USB-C powered gadgets, but I also inspired people to search for solutions to their old appliances. One of my good friends, determined to keep using his Phillips shaver, found an adapter that converts their proprietary charger to USB-C and right after, he sent me one for Braun:
🐭 I’m using a mouse with LEFT HAND, even though I’m RIGHT-handed?! Do you know why?
I’ve recently had trouble falling asleep. 😴 On average I’m sleeping fewer hours than last year. So I decided to fix my “good night” routine by getting rid of my iPhone for the night and changing it for a book read on a Kindle - here’s why…
Now that the summer is looming and it’s going to be the hottest summer in the history of mankind, you should be wearing sunglasses. If you’re like me, and you like to listen to podcasts or audio books, consider getting a 2-in-1 - sunglasses with audio Bluetooth for around 30-40 bucks.
Last week I posted a very geeky way to add notes to the Apple Watch which required complicated setup to work on my Apple Watch Ultra 2. However, Rafal (the VP of Product in Nozbe) saw that and he told me that by sending iMessages to yourself, you can have a similar workflow without all that complicated server setup.
I love my Apple Watch Ultra 2 but what I didn‘t like about it was that it came with the WatchOS 10 which removed the ability to quickly swipe between watch faces. As a person who likes changing watch faces and configuring them with different complications depending on the time of day or the day of the week - it was really annoying. Luckily this option is back now!
