Hi, I’m Simone
I write essays and create productivity systems to facilitate intentional living.

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Essays

Business

Cross-Cultural Leadership: The GLOBE Dimensions

High power distance communities expect everyone to obey their leaders without question, regardless of the context they are in. Such cultures emphasize an unequal distribution of power among the population, and power is perceived to be a catalyst for orderliness.

Strategy Analysis: External & Internal Environment

Similar to sleep, or health and fitness, there are specific tools and protocols we can follow when it comes to business strategy. Strategy analysis is the first stage of strategic management. Strategy is the science and practice of setting organizational decisions based on evidence, data.

How to use Notion sub-items and dependencies

There are a lot of components to managing a project—or many projects—effectively (i.e., all the work gets done with high quality in a timely manner). Doing the work and managing the work are two distinct jobs, akin to production and editing when writing. When you are managing a project, you put all the pieces together, visualize the path, and schedule your action through defined blocks of time.


Essays

Fitness

Everything You Need to Know About Training Volume

Workout volume is indisputably a key variable responsible for muscle hypertrophy. Using and manipulating it wisely in training programs can make the difference when it comes to optimizing results over the long run.

Fat Loss Tracking Notion Template

The fat loss tracking Notion template is a calculator of everything concerning your nutrition. What I mean by "everything" is TDEE (total daily energy expenditure), Calorie deficit, calories per day to eat in a deficit, macronutrients (protein, fats, carbohydrates).

The Practice and Science of Legs-Push-Pull Workouts

In previous articles, we analyzed full-body training and the Upper/Lower split. In an attempt to complete the tour of "modern" resistance training regimes, this post dives into the legs/push/pull workout split, especially focusing on the fundamental characteristics of this approach, its advantages, disadvantages, and implementation.


Essays

Life

How I Use Notion for Writing a Thesis

Writing a thesis is a complex (i.e., tangled and cognitively demanding) endeavor that you will need to boldly face at some point in your life if you decide to pursue higher education. How we can go through the thesis writing process can vary extensively.

How I Use Notion as a University Student

The academic year has almost come to an end in Italy. And this year, I experimented with using a different way of studying. While in the past I would take notes on paper and study using a mix of notes and books content, this year I used Notion to store all the content of the classes I have taken.

How to automatically calculate dates in Notion

The autofill dates Notion template aims at calculating sequential dates automatically, directly in Notion. The example provided in the template contains twelve weeks' worth of auto-calculated dates and can be used as a content calendar in Notion, for instance. In such a scenario, we could plan three months' worth of content and define exactly when to publish each post precisely.