I finally pulled the trigger on a blog/newsletter. I’ve always wanted to publish stuff, but never got around to doing it before 2020. Even though I consider myself a pretty decent writer, I tend to struggle with consistency, so I think that was my biggest blocker. But in the case, I said just “fuck it, let’s just do it. ” And it happened! Spoiler alert: I lost consistency at the end of the year but that’s a story for another highlight.
At the time, here’s how introduced the blog:
Problem
Designing the best processes and systems for our digital spaces is freakin’ hard. Not only does it take a long time to settle on the right software — everything changes all the time. More data, new tools, new features, and unforeseen limitations demand constant adjustment. Who on Earth has the time to keep up?
Me
I’m obsessed with operations — not even just in the business context but more in the “figuring out how things and groups of things work, and how can it be done better” one. Odd, right? I don’t know, I’m just inexplicably drawn to this stuff.
It just happens to be that for the past five years, I channeled this obsession into mastering digital organization and productivity software. It all started with good ol’ Excel and over the years I worked through Drive, Trello, Asana, Evernote, Things, Sunsama, Flow, Airtable, and Todoist (in that order).
To no avail. Every tool was unsatisfactory. Until I found Notion. For me, it’s the all-in-one-everything software, and I actually love it. In the coming posts, we’ll explore why it works for me — and how it can work for you.
