> I've spent over 500 hours creating an entire Notion org, including all wikis, databases, and templates, for you to copy.
This guy spent quarter of a working year building a second version of his fancy wiki, rather than work on his startup.
> We were one week away from onboarding our first employees, and we had started creating onboarding docs in Google Docs when it started to seem messy.
It doesn't sound like they've ever really used anything else.
This article (and knowledge/data stores in general) has all the hallmarks of the tribalistic fad that plagues note taking. In particular there is no hard data, no specific problem exploration, no notion of tradeoffs. Its all fanbasing and salesmanship of their wonderful concepts.
I've never worked at a truly huge company like many of you have, my biggest was around the 150 people mark. I've rarely been without access to information that wasnt being politically kept from me, and maintaining the relevance of documented data has been a significant challenge everywhere. Notion doesn't solve the first, and it doesn't seem to make maintaining easier either (in fact all the cross linking seems to make it harder). I expect it'll perform about the same as the other systems - that is to say the benefit comes from the disciplined use over time, without this they are all messes in a year.
Regardless of my dismissiveness, my current company has just embraced notion. When the co-founders are on the hype train there is no going back, so I'm hoping to harness the momentum for some general improvements in comms skills across the team.
> I've spent over 500 hours creating an entire Notion org, including all wikis, databases, and templates, for you to copy.
This guy spent quarter of a working year building a second version of his fancy wiki, rather than work on his startup.
> We were one week away from onboarding our first employees, and we had started creating onboarding docs in Google Docs when it started to seem messy.
It doesn't sound like they've ever really used anything else.
This article (and knowledge/data stores in general) has all the hallmarks of the tribalistic fad that plagues note taking. In particular there is no hard data, no specific problem exploration, no notion of tradeoffs. Its all fanbasing and salesmanship of their wonderful concepts.
I've never worked at a truly huge company like many of you have, my biggest was around the 150 people mark. I've rarely been without access to information that wasnt being politically kept from me, and maintaining the relevance of documented data has been a significant challenge everywhere. Notion doesn't solve the first, and it doesn't seem to make maintaining easier either (in fact all the cross linking seems to make it harder). I expect it'll perform about the same as the other systems - that is to say the benefit comes from the disciplined use over time, without this they are all messes in a year.
Regardless of my dismissiveness, my current company has just embraced notion. When the co-founders are on the hype train there is no going back, so I'm hoping to harness the momentum for some general improvements in comms skills across the team.