Podcast sponsor: ✅ Nozbe Teams - 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 are not so excited with the new iPad Pro Subscri…

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 this episode: The Podcast 91: Best city The Podcast 196…

Discussing Netflix CEO’s thoughts on leadership:- building a high talent density workplace- leading by context- removing unnecessary policies (vacation, spending, travel)By The Podcast

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!By The Podcast

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.By The Podcast

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

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 line.In three weeks, they produced over 30 000 face shie…

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 the company, and make Kaizen part of our everyday work …

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.By The Podcast

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 daily standups- Kaizen mathFeel free to follow us on twitter: https:…

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.By The Podcast

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.By 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.By The Podcast

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 unnecessary niceties instead of giving and receiving feedback …

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.By The Podcast

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.By The Podcast

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.By The Podcast

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.By The Podcast

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).By The Podcast

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 re-telling the story of why and how this came to be.…

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.By The Podcast

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

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.By The Podcast

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.By The Podcast

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.By The Podcast