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This one decision impacts everyone around you
You are eating at a busy restaurant one evening. You observe the waiters working diligently to serve everyone despite the challenges that come with a full room of hungry guests.…
Business
Building Notion-powered AI Agents - Notion Agent API
Say you built an app for a group of accountants to interact with each other and get insights from your multi-decade experience in the industry, which you are now passing on to the…
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How important is experience?
Imagine someone tells you: “Material possessions amount to nothing and can lead to a life devoid of meaning.” If that someone is a 45-year-old multi-millionaire who owns or used…
Business
How to create any automation with Notion AI - Notion Worker build
The best opportunity to build a Notion Worker is when you want a deterministic automation — one that doesn’t need Artificial Intelligence. For example, sending a weekly Slack…
Fitness
Custom workout program design and tracking app
I’ve worked on this app for myself over a few days. It is a work in progress and good enough that I decided to share it because someone might find it interesting or inspiring. The…
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Managing status
As the prefrontal cortex grows with us, we increasingly become concerned with managing social status among our peers and humanity in general. Throughout adulthood, managing status…
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What do i know?
We move through the day with many elements inadvertently affecting us—from the food we ate or didn’t eat, to all the limiting beliefs accumulated over a lifetime from all sorts of…
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Formidable people
In a landmark essay, Paul Graham of Y Combinator defined a formidable (startup) founder as “one who seems like they’ll get what they want, regardless of whatever obstacles are in…
Business
How to Hide Sensitive Data in Notion Databases (Property Access Rules)
Collaborative workspaces often need restricted access—different access for different groups or individuals. Not just at a page or database level (see page-level access), but also…
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On sociality
If you observe ants, you will notice how they often bump into each other for a second or more to detect whether they are from the same group and exchange signals. For example,…
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Caring and beyond
In teenage years, those who care least acquire the most admiration from peers. That admiration—and the seeming lack of care itself—are rather unstable and inauthentic most of the…
Fitness
Nutrition Considerations & Experiments
Every day, you eat something, and it becomes part of you in some way. Over years, you take on a certain bodily and psychological organization and shape that are in part affected…
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