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The Podcast
by Michael Sliwinski of Nozbe
Founder of Nozbe and productivity enthusiast - Michael Sliwinski lets AI co-hosts dissect his best essays for your enjoyment (from 2024 onwards). Previously it was a conversation between Radek Pietruszewski (ex-Nozbe CTO) and Michael Sliwinski (Nozbe Founder) about technology, productivity tips, business, publishing… or whatever else comes to mind.
Episodes
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227: Is Japanese better?
On my recent trip to Japan 🇯🇵 I’ve noticed many things that in Japan are different than here in Europe, and very often… better. Here are the AI co-hosts discussing my finding which you can also find in detail in my original post. 🎁 And for productivity-savvy listeners, there’s a bonus from…
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226: Top home office gadgets
Me and my Nozbe team all work from our homes. We're a completely remote company. I’ve been tweaking my home office almost every year since 2008 and documenting it on my blog. Today I'm letting the AI co hosts to analyze the top 10 gadgets that make my 2026 home office a great place to work for…
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225: Tim Cook vs Apple fans
Even though Tim Cook built a 4 trillion empire as Apple Inc, one of the places I think he missed is their relationship with developers like myself, creator of Nozbe, a productivity app available on the iPhone, iPad and the Mac. I’ve written an entire essay about this at Michael.team/cook/ and…
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224: The 2-minute rule
I'm a great fan of GTD - Getting Things Done methodology by David Allen and as the founder of Nozbe, I love my simple structure of projects, tasks and comments. However, there are tasks that don't even go there, because if getting them done takes me less than 2 minutes, I just do them without…
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223: AI productivity
Can AI - Artificial Intelligence - become a productivity booster? Oh yes. From an AI skeptic, I've been slowly embracing it and incorporating it into my daily work. I've shared my experiences in an essay at michael.team/ai and today I've asked the AI co-hosts to talk about them for you. I hope…
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222: Core Hours Framework in practice
If you're a busy entrepreneur, manager or team leader, I'm sure your workweek is totally slammed. Between managing, delegating and leading, you also need time for focused work. There’s simply no time to sit down and work on this brilliant new idea that's been bugging you. I’ve been struggling…
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221: Remove Social Media Apps from your Smartphone
Time for a challenge! Should you choose to accept it, you have a shot at receiving these 5 benefits: improve your productivity regain clarity boost your self-esteem reduce anxiety improve your ability to focus! What's the cost? Just remove social media apps from your smart phone! I know it sounds...
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220: 10 Books that shaped my business life
In a world that rewards busyness over progress, these 10 books taught me how to go fast while slowing down and create more with less. A few months back I shared my 10 favorite business books of all time which you can find at michael.team/10books - and now listen to the Google's Notebook LM…
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219: Journaling or 5 minutes a day that will improve your life
Let’s talk about benefits of Journaling and my free Journal 4 shortcut that will help you start journaling in no time. For background, here’s my entire journaling journey. 🎁 And for listeners, there’s a bonus from Nozbe ($30!)
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218: Perfect Home Office for 2025 with recording studio
Discussion about my perfect Home Office setup: Home Office 2025 Perfect Recording Studio 🎁 Get $30 of credits for Nozbe (up to 3 months free!)
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217: Immature business decisions in 18 years of Nozbe
Discussion about Michael’s essay: How my immature decisions led me to celebrating 18 years of my productivity business? Also check out Michael’s own discussion in the podcast: NoOffice Podcast 58 - Immature Business Decisions
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216: Michael’s #BackpackOnly lifestyle
AI co-hosts discuss Michael’s latest detailed contents of his Backpack Read it at: michael.team/backpack Also don’t forget to check out Michael’s posts about #NoOffice and #iPadOnly 🎁 Get $30 from Nozbe at: nozbe.com/podcast
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215: Time is Money?
AI co-hosts discuss Michael’s latest essay: Time is Money Read it at: michael.team/money Additional discussion by Michael himself is at NoOffice FM #52 Find it at: nooffice.fm/52 🎁 Get $30 from Nozbe at: nozbe.com/podcast
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214: Michael’s #iPadOnly setup
Today's episode is a deep dive discussion between AI co-hosts about my #iPadOnly essays: How can I be so productive on the iPad? And: Why I must work on the iPad - the most versatile computer ever - M1 iPad Pro 13” review after 2 years If you liked this episode, please rate it on Podcasts and…
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213: Michael’s Weekly Template
Hello The Podcast listeners, as you know Radek and I are no longer recording this podcast, but I am still podcasting at NoOffice.fm - which I'm recording every two weeks with my Nozbe team And Team Productivity Show Feel free to subscribe to one or both of these podcasts using the links in the…
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212: Reunite the team from home
Podcast sponsor: ✅ Nozbe - Work from home with your team Key things you will learn from this episode: How to organize an online team retreat What special gifts and activities we had during Nozbe Reunion What we've learned from our latest Virtual Reunion Why #iPadOnly guys like Michael and Rafal…
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211: Warsaw
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Add to Overcast, Get RSS The Podcast is a semi-regular chat between Radek and yours truly (we both work at Nozbe) about productivity, business, books, and whatever else comes to mind… - if you liked this episode, make sure to check out past episodes. Show notes for…
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210: No Rules Rules
Discussing Netflix CEO’s thoughts on leadership: - building a high talent density workplace - leading by context - removing unnecessary policies (vacation, spending, travel)
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209: Lean House
Applying Lean methodology from Japanese factories (specifically, the kanban pull system) to managing groceries and other house supplies. Never will you ever run out of toilet paper again!
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208: Smart teams work from home
Should we focus Nozbe marketing on Work From Home? Michael has a frank discussion with Radek about this. Maybe it’s a great idea! Or maybe, it’s too niche and will ruin our marketing.
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207: Competition Gossip Corner
Let’s gossip about what our competitors are doing… Basecamp 4, HEY? What are they all about? Are they a threat?
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206: Radek’s Face Shield Factory
Radek has started a job in manufacturing… pro bono manufacturing of face shields for hospitals in Poland. No, really. Over the last few weeks, Radek has been applying what he’d learned about CAD, laser cutting, and lean manufacturing at the Warsaw Hackerspace to set up a face shield production...
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205: Chat about: kaizen & performance
This episode is a new, experimental format. It’s just Radek calling Michael to chat about work. Like they normally would. Except that it happens to be recorded and published, so you can get a glimpse into how we do it. In this chat, we’re trying to figure out how to institute cultural change at…
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204: Core Hours
Make a huge impact with just 2 hours per day. Discussing Michael’s latest productivity hack and how this simple change allowed him to be way more productive this year.
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203: Lean at Nozbe
How we apply Lean philosophy to the Nozbe Teams development process: - Weekly release train - Phased releases - One-day pull requests - CI/CD - Asynchronous testing - Feature flags - Bug fixing Mondays - Dev responsibilities - Roadmap Rangers - Time scoping - Kaizen in customer support - Text…
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202: The Machine That Changed The World
We dive deep into Lean Manufacturing - how Ford’s mass manufacturing changed the world, how Toyota dramatically improved on the process - and why it matters even if you’re not in manufacturing.
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201: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k
In life, there’s a limited number of f’s you can give — very few in fact. And yet we give them out left and right, robbing us of simple tranquility in life. We discuss the book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k — a modern, approachable guide to stoicism.
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200: Best of The Podcast
Celebrating nearly 5 years and 199 episodes of The Podcast, and giving our recommendations for the best stories and recommendations we’ve recorded so far.
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199: Art of Feedback
When we receive feedback, or an idea, a suggestion, we tend to become defensive. We’re sure they’re wrong and we’re right, and we stop listening. And thus we miss out on good insights. Or do we? Perhaps the real problem is the culture, people being too delicate, and so we are forced into...
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198: 2019 in Review
Like every year, we’re taking this moment to reflect on 2019, review our successes and failures, set some goals (not resolutions!) for 2020, and put in motion a process to ensure it’s going to be a great year.
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197: Horizontal Responsibilities
Exploring the idea of abolishing (or enhancing) the hierarchical structure of companies in favor of dispersing responsibilities broadly into a mesh — not based on rank, but particular skill, specialization, experience.
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196: Hands Are Dirty
Getting your hands dirty to create physical objects, tinker, work with plastic, metal, and wood is fun! A more soothing hobby than doing stuff at the computer, and a better way to spend an evening than Netflix. We discuss home renovations, CNC milling, concrete casting, and industrial robots.
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195: Gadgets, with love
We got, no, we _made_ some cool new gadgets for the Fall 2019 Nozbe Reunion: Laser-cut phone stands, zero waste produce bags and hemp dish cleaner, and smog sensors.
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194: Trendsetters
To create Nozbe Teams, we had to grow from being a product company to being a technology company. In this episode, we’re telling the story of what technological infrastructure we’ve chosen and created for this project (and why).
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193: Two-Product Company
In 2016, we decided to make "Nozbe for Teams". Then, we changed its name to just Nozbe 4. Ultimately, we've decided to call the new product Nozbe Teams and become, at least for a while, a two-product company. In this episode, we're winding the history back to the beginnings of this project and...
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192: Corrupted System
This wasn't supposed to be this week's show. We meant to talk about Nozbe Teams… but instead, we go on a 40 minute long crusade against… jeans and MacBooks.
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191: Summer's Gone
Catching up after a 3-month summer break from The Podcast. Vacations, conferences, open source, webmastering, Nozbe Teams, Portland, and driving licenses.
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190: Webmaster is back!
The Podcast is on a summer break. Meanwhile, Michael started playing with code again and have just launched three new website projects. And we briefly discuss and update on Digital Minimalism and Michael's break from social media.
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189: Dub dub
Live from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, we discuss our fresh reactions from Apple's conference. New iPadOS, the cheese grater, Shortcuts and automation, Catalyst, and SwiftUI.
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188: Michael 4.0
Having reached his 40th birthday (and we, The Podcast, our fourth), Michael shares his best bits of wisdom: Finding what you're good at, striving for longevity, knowing when to reinvent yourself, having fun, and nurturing friendships.
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187: Camino
Michael talks about what it's like to walk a 260km pilgrimage over a week and a half, why he and his wife did it, how it can be a great experience even for non-religious people, how to pack for it, and why northern Spain is kinda nice.
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186: Courage to be disliked
Discussing The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. Giving autonomy to live their own lives, neither prasing nor rebuking, and finding happiness in being beneficial to people around us.
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185: Factfulness
The world is bad, but better. The vast majority of westerners believe the world is poorer, more violent, deadly, primitive, and awful than it actually is. This book beautifully illustrates our ignorance, updates your knowledge, and gives you tools for a fact-based worldview.
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184: Digital Minimalism
Digital Minimalism - A philosophy where you focus your technology use on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that support your values, and happily miss out on everything else. We discuss Cal Newport's new book on this very topic. Why clutter is costly, optimization is...
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183: N is 4 Nozbe
Nozbe 4, our brand new app has a brand new icon (and logo). This week, we talk about what's wrong with ticks and circles, what makes a good logo, why we decided to go for it, and how it almost didn't happen.
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182: Purple Day
What we've learned about productivity and collaboration over the years. How technology improvement allows us to get to the next level. And why starting from scratch is scary, but sometimes necessary.
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181: The Deadline
Pulling back the curtain on the development process of Nozbe 4. When we started, how we progressed over time, and why we had to impose on ourselves the deadline of April 4.
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180: Childhood bribes
Stories about competition, punishment, and rewards in the classroom and our childhoods. We continue discussing what we've learned from Punished by Rewards.
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179: Punished by rewards
When we reward someone (an employee, a student, a child) for doing what we want them to do, we think we're doing the right thing, motivating them to keep doing it. In reality, incentives only have a shallow, immediate effect — and in the long term, we're killing the other person's intrinsic...
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178: Complaining
The good, the bad, and the necessary of complaining and complainers. To keep improving, and to communicate efficiently in an organization (and to be grown up) is to understand that complaints are not usually toxic, negative, or a personal attack against you — but are simply feedback. To say to...
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Founder of Nozbe and productivity enthusiast - Michael Sliwinski lets AI co-hosts dissect his best essays for your enjoyment (from 2024 onwards). Previously it was a conversation between Radek Pietruszewski (ex-Nozbe CTO) and Michael Sliwinski (Nozbe Founder) about technology, productivity tips, business, publishing… or whatever else comes to mind.
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Founder of Nozbe and productivity enthusiast - Michael Sliwinski lets AI co-hosts dissect his best essays for your enjoyment (from 2024 onwards). Previously it was a conversation between Radek Pietruszewski (ex-Nozbe CTO) and Michael Sliwinski (Nozbe Founder) about technology, productivity tips,...
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