The Podcast

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 someone not to bring you problems, but only solutions is to guarantee you'll be oblivious to everything that's broken in a company.

(But yes, some complaints are nothing more than unhelpful snark — learn to distinguish between the two)

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.

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

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

How to hide (but not delete) distracting apps on iOS and Android, time and open limits on Facebook and other apps, blocking websites, old school newsletters, and more.

Celebrating 12 years of profitably running Nozbe (without any outside investors), Michael recounts some of the most important milestones, and most amusing anecdotes of the company’s history.

That, and a sneak peak into the future of Nozbe

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).

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, overworked, sleep-deprived people with no long stretches of uninterrupted time can’t really be productive. Busyness and effectiveness are not the same.

We discuss a book from Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.

The biggest themes, projects, successes, and failures of 2018 in Michael’s and Radek’s lives.

And COOKIES! (And rockets!)

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 makes you, you. To make plans, set goals, learn new things, and develop habits for next year. To let go.

Here’s the end of the year, and our definitive guide to Annual Review.

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 care.

We dive into David Graeber’s food for thought.