Arc Notion drop, Soho House + RaaS (Research as a Service)

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Nov 27, 2023

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News just in: apparently putting yourself out there & sharing your work in public is a good thing. More in my confessions at the end!

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Some calm in the productivity storm

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📰 This week in The Notion Zeitgeist

🆕 New Notion x Arc Update ⋰ 🆕 Duplicate databases without content ⋰ 🤔 If Athletic Greens, Surreal PATTERN Beauty or Salomon made Notion templates ⋰ 🏠 Notion Cribs ⋰ 📓 Relaunching my journal for 2024 ⋰ 🎬 Animations for Notion ⋰ 📚 Insightful Notes from 200 Books* ⋰ 📌 Track Your Anime Enamel Pin Collection, with Notion ⋰ 🚀 Fewer meetings, more Notion. ⋰ ✨ London Meetup ⋰ ⚡ Using Notion AI to Save HOURS ⋰ 🏢 Notion in Soho House?

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🪩 This week in ✨Profuntivity✨

”Adding layers of fun into your werkflow, while being realistic about what you can actually get done” - future bestseller?!

🚀 How I recycle my tweets° ⋰ 📰 The Envy Office ⋰ ⌛ Time Management Roadmap ⋰ 🌟 What is Star Bathing? ⋰ 💅 Nail Press-On Business Cards ⋰ 👟 Fluffy Slippers: Stüssy x Birkenstockt ⋰ 🌐 How to appear on top of google search? ⋰ 🔍 What happened at Peloton's Turkey Burn? ⋰ 🖼️ Renter-friendly wallpaper

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🌶 Hot Take: RaaS (Research as a Service)

Recently

Rahul Mathur

posted a viral tweet sharing his Notion dashboard containing notes he’s taken from 〜200 books. It’s great social proof that people value research. Why? It takes time, which is something we all don’t have enough of. I say this as someone who’s been paid to research and also is currently being paid to research by paid subscribers of this newsletter who access to the ongoing archive of links that I research each week.

Is Raas (Reasearch as a service) the next new wave? Watch this space! What ongoing research would you pay for?

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