Good morning from New York City. I woke up this morning to a piece of paper sitting on the dining room table which I had totally forgotten about. Yesterday I was completely frustrated because I’m trying to learn a new program called Notion. My friend Will thinks Notion is like the switchboard operator Grand Central of your life. It can be anything from a to-do list, to a place you take notes, to database It’s really a powerful tool, but it’s not intuitive. I tried to learn it like six years ago and abandoned it. I thought it was going to be a flash in the pan productivity tool, but actually it’s more powerful than ever and I really want to learn how to use it.

I got all frustrated last night and I just said to myself I don’t think I’m going to do this. As I was making dinner, what came to me was that I had not really thought through what I wanted the program to do for me. I was focused on trying to learn something without real clarity on what exactly I wanted that to be. Anyway, I got all flustered, walked away from it and then finally created an outline before I went to bed.

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