Define notion8/13/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s a powerhouse of features with the simplest of design. As far as Notion goes, it’s a tool that I’ve been using for a week and now I can’t work without. (Granted my circle comprises of a very limited subset of tech-savvy people but I know even they would use it.) Released in June 2018, Notion is a note-taking and collaboration application with markdown support that also integrates tasks, wikis, and databases. It’s astonishing how very few people in my circle know of this beautiful, highly customizable, all-in-one workspace tool. With that out of the way, it's time to start the fun part.Ī product that I encountered recently that I instantly fell in love with is Notion. Some really good examples of such documents can be found here, here, and here. The sole purpose of this document is to lay out the logic behind the ‘why’ of any growth effort that a company undertakes. A lot of PM interviewees go through this question when preparing for their interviews and is one of the toughest questions asked by the interviewers. To the uninitiated, a product strategy memo/doc is a document that describes the strategy executed to scale a product or to introduce new features to a product. I should be publishing memos, not memes! Therefore, with that established, I now plan to write a product strategy whenever I don’t have content to write about. It then hit me, this is what I SHOULD be doing. Publishing a product strategy for a product you like/dislike. On the same podcast, he discussed an idea. It’s also a pretty vulnerable act if you ask me. A few days ago I had listened to his 2-hr long insightful podcast with Andrew Pompliano where he talks about how writing online is a selfish act, a medium to meet interesting people, and to put clarity in your thoughts. ![]() (I am not discounting the chance if I was a different life-form before coming to Earth. It felt like he was directly talking to me although he’s only come to know of my existence exactly once in my 26 years of existence on Earth. And by sheer luck, I chanced upon this tweet by one of my favorite product leaders of the last decade, Sriram Krishnan, talking about how “nothing is too basic” when it comes to writing online. And then something happened today, I missed writing. If I can’t hold myself accountable, then that’s a weak commitment. It was I who wanted to learn in the first place. Anybody learning from it was a by-product. But I forgot I wasn’t doing it for anybody, I was doing this for myself. For the past two days, I even battled the idea of not publishing anything. My primary goal for this blog was to publish something I can learn from and everyone who reads it takes away something from it. ![]()
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