For 3 weeks, I’ve been trying out a (pre-production) daylight tablet. The display is like e-ink, but a smooth 60fps, reflective under sunlight or glowing amber. There’s no notifications, & it runs Android apps so I’ve got Obsidian, Goodnotes, etc. It’s surprised me. (1/2)
I first met Ivan Zhao 11 years ago -- and his pitch for Notion was unlike anything I had ever experienced.
We did not discuss technology products like Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Instead, we spent an hour discussing the openness and form factor of paper. Ivan marveled…
Huge thanks to Kenrick Cai for writing this story. He may have chatted with literally every person Ivan Zhao and I have ever interacted with in the past decade 😅
'I don’t want my digital life to be one shame closet after another. I want it to be a garden I tend, snipping back the weeds and nourishing the plants.' nytimes.com/2024/04/07/opi…
Enjoying fresh produce with your kids at the local farmers market, while the sun shines, the cool breeze wafts, the local musician sings, and the neighbors say hello...
It's a happy moment that I can now create pretty reliably and consistently, every week.
TIL Notion was meant to be a computing/programming language tool to help people make things with very no code. But because people resonated more with productivity tools than computing, Simon Last and Ivan Zhao decided to hide the computing power behind a productivity tool
Sat down with my Notion cofounders for the finale of our First Block podcast! You may know Notion, but there’s lots you’ve never heard before in this episode.