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How to Build Native Dashboards in Notion - Notion Dashboard View
Dashboards are metrics-driven visualizations that help you and your team make choices based on data, or simply consult analytics about your work and life endeavors. Insights based…
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Notion Custom Agents Explained
Once returned from grocery shopping and having organized the kitchen, Ryan sat at his desk and opened the laptop. During the time he was outside, what he often refers to as his…
Life
A Framework for Life - To Live Your Life
To live life by intention instead of by default, you need to want it. I'm claiming that living by intention is desirable and superior to living by default—a claim that sits at the…
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Stress as status signaling
Stress can be used as a status-signaling device, particularly among people who primarily seek validation through hard work. They may strongly identify with hard work, generating…
The types of cognitive abilities
There is a certain intuition often discussed about the increasing use of large language models (LLMs): that outsourcing cognitive work that requires effort leads to a decrease in…
Dopamine is about expectation of intermittent reward
If we were designed by engineers, as we consumed more, we’d desire less. But our frequent human tragedy is that the more we consume, the hungrier we get. More and faster and…
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Constant imaginary conversations
We go about our days with a machinery of imaginary conversations or monologues from relevant people in our lives, whether in the past or present, dead or alive. It’s easy to take…
Notion AI Computer Access
While working on a PowerPoint presentation for an upcoming investor meeting, John—the CEO of a fast-growing U.K. scale-up—let a Notion Custom Agent use all the notes in the…
Information overload and action gaps
A way you clean up a trash can that’s been tipped over by the monkeys at night, snacking on the leftovers, is to soften and begin picking up the first piece of garbage, and the…
Notion Permissions Guide for Teams: Handling Members, Guests, Groups
When you use Notion for business, understanding permissions and access management can be confusing but important for maintaining a sufficient degree of order in the workspace,…
On charisma
‘I am afraid’, he uttered while trembling in front of the opponent he would face in a boxing match the following day. Charisma is often sought after as a mechanism for getting…