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Core Hours Framework in practice

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 n...

Remove Social Media Apps from your Smartphone

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Time for a challenge! Should you choose to accept it, you have a shot at receiving these 5 benefits:improve your productivityregain clarityboost your ...

220: 10 Books that shaped my business life

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 bac...

219: Journaling or 5 minutes a day that will improve your life

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 en...

218: Perfect Home Office for 2025 with recording studio

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Discussion about my perfect Home Office setup:Home Office 2025Perfect Recording Studio🎁 Get $30 of credits for Nozbe (up to 3 months free!)

217: Immature business decisions in 18 years of Nozbe

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

216: Michael’s #BackpackOnly lifestyle

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AI co-hosts discuss Michael’s latest detailed contents of his BackpackRead it at: michael.team/backpackAlso don’t forget to check out Michael’s ...

215: Time is Money?

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AI co-hosts discuss Michael’s latest essay: Time is MoneyRead it at: michael.team/moneyAdditional discussion by Michael himself is at NoOffice FM #5...

214: Michael’s #iPadOnly setup

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

213: Michael’s Weekly Template

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hello The Podcast listeners, as you know Radek and I are no longer recording this podcast, but I am still podcasting atNoOffice.fm - which I'm recordi...

212: Reunite the team from home

02 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Podcast sponsor:✅ Nozbe - Work from home with your teamKey things you will learn from this episode:How to organize an online team retreatWhat specia...

211: Warsaw

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Add to Overcast, Get RSSThe Podcast is a semi-regular chat between Radek and yours truly (we both work at Nozbe) about pr...

210: No Rules Rules

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Discussing Netflix CEO’s thoughts on leadership: - building a high talent density workplace - leading by context - removing unnecessary policies (va...

209: Lean House

27 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Applying Lean methodology from Japanese factories (specifically, the kanban pull system) to managing groceries and other house supplies. Never will yo...

208: Smart teams work from home

08 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

207: Competition Gossip Corner

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s gossip about what our competitors are doing… Basecamp 4, HEY? What are they all about? Are they a threat?

206: Radek’s Face Shield Factory

17 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Radek has started a job in manufacturing… pro bono manufacturing of face shields for hospitals in Poland. No, really. Over the last few weeks, Rade...

205: Chat about: kaizen & performance

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

204: Core Hours

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 pr...

203: Lean at Nozbe

11 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How we apply Lean philosophy to the Nozbe Teams development process: - Weekly release train - Phased releases - One-day pull requests - CI/CD - Asynch...

202: The Machine That Changed The World

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We dive deep into Lean Manufacturing - how Ford’s mass manufacturing changed the world, how Toyota dramatically improved on the process - and why it...

201: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k

26 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 tranquil...

200: Best of The Podcast

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Celebrating nearly 5 years and 199 episodes of The Podcast, and giving our recommendations for the best stories and recommendations we’ve recorded s...

199: Art of Feedback

29 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

198: 2019 in Review

16 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

197: Horizontal Responsibilities

08 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the idea of abolishing (or enhancing) the hierarchical structure of companies in favor of dispersing responsibilities broadly into a mesh —...

196: Hands Are Dirty

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

195: Gadgets, with love

08 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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, an...

194: Trendsetters

26 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

193: Two-Product Company

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 Team...

192: Corrupted System

23 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

191: Summer's Gone

11 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Catching up after a 3-month summer break from The Podcast. Vacations, conferences, open source, webmastering, Nozbe Teams, Portland, and driving licen...

190: Webmaster is back!

05 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

189: Dub dub

19 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Live from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, we discuss our fresh reactions from Apple's conference. New iPadOS, the che...

188: Michael 4.0

31 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

187: Camino

20 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 e...

186: Courage to be disliked

08 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Discussing The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. Giving autonomy to live their own lives, neither prasing nor rebuking, and ...

185: Factfulness

30 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

184: Digital Minimalism

24 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Digital Minimalism - A philosophy where you focus your technology use on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that support yo...

183: N is 4 Nozbe

17 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

182: Purple Day

04 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What we've learned about productivity and collaboration over the years. How technology improvement allows us to get to the next level. And why startin...

181: The Deadline

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

180: Childhood bribes

20 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Stories about competition, punishment, and rewards in the classroom and our childhoods. We continue discussing what we've learned from Punished by Rew...

179: Punished by rewards

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 k...

178: Complaining

07 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The good, the bad, and the necessary of complaining and complainers. To keep improving, and to communicate efficiently in an organization (and to be ...

177: Planning together

28 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How to review and plan a year together. Because Annual Review is not just for you, and for your work, but for your family and relationships too.

176: Salary formula

20 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We started paying our employees salaries based on a formula that applies to everyone, not based on individual negotiations. Here’s why, and how.

175: 100% Buzz-Free

06 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up on our journey towards a (slightly) calmer life — with fewer distractions, push notifications, and social media. Pushing forward to find t...

174: 12 years

01 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Celebrating 12 years of profitably running Nozbe (without any outside investors), Michael recounts some of the most important milestones, and most amu...

173: The Year of Purple

24 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Here’s a sneak peak for Michael’s and Radek’s plans for 2019 (a.k.a. the year of Purple / the year of intentionality).

172: It doesn’t have to be crazy at work

16 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Always busy? Endless meetings? Can’t sleep? No time to think? Screw that. It doesn’t have to be crazy at work. It makes no sense. Exhausted, over...

171: 2018 in Review

11 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The biggest themes, projects, successes, and failures of 2018 in Michael’s and Radek’s lives. And COOKIES! (And rockets!)

170: Live intentionally

21 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Here’s your choice to live a more intentional life. To learn from the events, plans, successes, and failures of the last year. To contemplate what m...

169: Bull**it Jobs

14 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Here’s a crazy idea: what if half of all work performed in our society was useless or unnecessary, and if it stopped, no one would notice — or car...

168: Get bored

06 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We own technology so that it makes our life better. Right? Or is it the other way around? What if filling every single second of our life with social...

167: The clunky future

30 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The state of computing is in an awkward state, but full of promise. On one side, unnecessary complicated PCs; on the other, fun but somewhat clunky iP...

166: Talk about size

21 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Michael’s new iPad is faster than Radek’s 15’’ MacBook Pro. Ouch! Why “you can’t work on an iPad” is (mostly) BS. Which iPad to buy?

165: Let’s fix it!

16 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Instead of only complaining, you can act to change things for the better in your local community, neighborhood, city, school. Most people tend to thin...

164: Why we do what we do

06 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Over time, we start taking things for granted, get used to the status quo, get into the rut, and forget the basics — the motivating factors behind w...

163: Joy of less

02 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Follow-up on the joy of minimalist backpack-only packing: wallets, cycling, charing, shaving… and a follow-up on home renovations and tidying up.

162: Backpack Only

25 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Podcast special, live from a Nozbe company reunion in Kraków! This one, if you can, you should really watch on video. We unpack our backpacks on...

161: Talk to them!

17 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lessons learned from Michael’s visit to Mobiconf. The liberty of backpack-only lifestyle. Choosing conferences wisely. And talking to people.

160: Building with hammers

10 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Home office renovations, laying out cable, procrastination, tinkering with Raspberry Pi, and home automation on the cheap

159: Home automation

02 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Experimenting with home automation with HomeKit

158: Sabbatical

26 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Can a CEO of a small company stop working completely for 6 weeks? Michael just did, and this are his lessons learned.

157: Watermelon

14 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The story behind the first artifact of the secret Project Purple, and Nozbe’s first big piece of open-source code: WatermelonDB. What it is, why we ...

156: Sport hacks

29 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Social accountability, structure, running with guests, cycling to school, and other brain hacks to find more time and opportunities for sports in our ...

155: Spreading the word

16 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

To blog or not to blog? Searching for our personal soapboxes, and pondering if blogging still matters when you can just record a podcast (and if it do...

154: Inevitable Convergence

06 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The new MacBook Pro. Why iOS and macOS are destined to converge. The future of Apple computers.

153: Attention Required

18 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

GDPR - the good, the bad, the ugly. Dark design of privacy popups. The legal, cultural, and technical fronts of the battle against privacy erosion.

152: Power to the people

11 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“It’s loud, dangerous, costly, produces poor results, and I love it”. In other words, welcome to the world of 3D printing. Radek tells about hi...

151: Nozbe: Automated

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Advancements in iOS automation. Simplifying morning/afternoon routine and travel with Nozbe automation. Resisting social media compulsive behavior (al...

150: Three years in

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Learning from three years of The Podcast. Keeping it short, sticking to audio, some stats, and feedback from our listeners!

149: Profit First

19 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Discussing — a simple system for managing finances designed around human flaws. We talk about the ideas from the book (written mostly for entreprene...

148: Don’t spend it all

13 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Thoughts on saving money. We discuss two different approaches to money when you’re young. And then we talk about ETFs — the simplest, least risky ...

147: Shackles, please!

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Our take on Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2018

146: Magic of Tidying Up

30 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Why living in a simple, minimalistic space is efficient, frugal, and good for psychological well-being. And more importantly: how to get there. (Hint...

145: Don't say that

22 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A real snapshot of how we work together. Michael is working on a presentation about remote work for infoShare, and we iterate on the draft, together, ...

144: Staring at a blank canvas

15 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A strategy for dealing with the hardest kind of tasks. Hint: it’s not by trying to make it 100% right in one go.

143: How to spend money

09 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the domain of personal finance: analyzing your spending, how to save money efficiently, why (saving on things you don't care about so you ca...

142: Aliens among us

02 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Questioning the format, purpose, length, and need for the semi-annual Nozbe Reunion — the only time when our remote company is in one physical locat...

141: Nozbe at Nozbe

24 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we explain, in detail, do we use Nozbe (the app) at Nozbe (the company). Why not all projects have a specific goal and end, a company messa...

140: Raising the bar

18 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Our hopes and wishes for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference next month. Discussing bezel-less iPads, a convergence of iOS and macOS, and produc...

139: First tasks first

10 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Radek explains his best system yet for planning the day and week to squeeze as much deep work as possible. First tasks first, then the frog, radio si...

138: Leap of faith

03 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A meandering discussion on advantages of semi-nomadic lifestyle, the brokenness of companies, changing paradigms, always taking the blame, and being i...

137: Nomadic lifestyle

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Radek explains what it takes to be a digital nomad — how to travel often, with little preparation, overhead, or stress, all while still doing your j...

136: Traveling with apps

21 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Using technology to make traveling easier. How to keep track of who owes whom how much, saving money on currency exchanges, running through the airpo...

135: Swiss army apps

13 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Discussing iOS apps, and how to use them powerfully. A follow-up on note-taking, document scanning, and maintaining a Magic Spreadhseet on iPhone and ...

134: Nozbe for you

06 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How Michael and Radek organize their lives (side projects, hobbies, chores, errands) outside of work using Nozbe. http://thepodcast.fm/134

133: Better Than Before

01 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Cultivating good habits and overcoming bad ones — discussing the most interesting strategies and brain hacks from Better than Before by Gretchen Ru...

132: Reusable Rocketry

13 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On the day of Falcon Heavy's maiden launch (currently the most powerful rocket in the world), we discuss what makes SpaceX great. SpaceX makes the ch...

131: Singular Focus of 2018

06 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Annual Review series, part 5 (and last!). Learning from previous years and quarterly reviews, and applying lessons of Burst Projects, Values, and Let...

130: 2017 Highlights

30 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Annual Review series, part 4. We're taking a look back at last year, to consider all that was good, bad, ugly, or just unexpected, and learn from it...

129: Letting go

23 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Annual Review series, part 3. Each year, start anew. Your past projects, goals, habits don’t matter… unless you decide that they really do. Don’...

128: Values

16 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Annual Review series, part 2. Last week we discussed how to structure goals. Today, we discuss how to select your goals in the first place. It start...

127: Burst Projects vs Keystone Habits

11 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Annual Review series, part 1. Sometimes you stumble upon a project that excites and engages you so much, it gives you what feels like superhuman powe...

126: Inbox Non-Zero

04 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How to become less addicted to notifications and badges. The thing is: they're designed to make us react. Every time we see there's a new message, we...

125: No speed limit

19 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Learn a new language in the New Year! Following up on the previous two episodes on learning languages, we share more tips on how to learn efficiently...

124: Making geeks smile

12 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cool gadgets you can get for Christmas. Also: Review of 2017 in hardware, and why Radek doesn't wear an Apple Watch anymore.

123: So Good They Can’t Ignore You

05 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Just follow your passion, right? … No. Unless you’re already highly skilled at something you’re passionate about, following your passion will o...