Crazy Wisdom
The Notion of Complexity: Ben Borowski on Managing Information and Building Systems
- notion
- productivity systems
- information management
- software mastery
- complexity
- digital organization
About this episode
- Guest: Ben Borowski, Notion Ambassador, and creator of the Notion Mastery Program.
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Training & Development
- Trained over 2000 students, focusing on various elements of Notion.
- Three tiers of training:
- Familiarization with Notion and basic usage.
- Interaction with databases.
- Advanced user base, including linked databases and UX design.
- Aimed at helping small businesses.
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Notion Master's Journey
- A build-with-me journey featuring 3 levels of development:
- How to use pages, build components, and sample projects.
- Automation, buttons, and tracking journeys.
- Demo days, Notion team interactions, and maintaining long-term customer relationships.
- Balancing features and avoiding overwhelm in product development.
- A build-with-me journey featuring 3 levels of development:
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Ambassador Community
- Focus on quality improvements and driving revenue.
- Addressing the severity of issues.
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Integrations with Notion
- Collaboration with Anthropic and Notion for interface creation.
- Generation of code and long-term goals.
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Complexity Theory & Building Second Brain
- Study of complexity versus complicated systems.
- The concept of building a second brain.
- Ideation, capturing information, linking, and workspace architecture.
- Permaculture to business systems and organizational self-analysis.
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Technology & Change
- How technology changes what we capture and memorize.
- Distillation and expression of acronyms.
- Observation and experimentation.
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Issues and Solutions
- Dealing with templates and modification challenges.
- Addressing various parts of Notion and filling knowledge gaps.
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Permaculture & Nature
- Application of permaculture principles to business.
- Observational phases and chaos in access.
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Analyzing & Building
- Designing in-person workspaces and organizing thoughts.
- Embedding brand and permaculture in business.
- Analyzing organizational thoughts and communication.
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Software & Analytics
- Analytics and web hook systems in Notion.
- Reacting within the system and handling public page sharing.
- Observing, monitoring, and privacy concerns in Notion.
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Notion Mastery Course & Reorganization
- Training resources, tips, and managing complexity.
- Stakeholder interviews and designing team spaces.
- Course as a library of exercises, ranging from beginner to expert, with workshops.
Episode transcript
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Well, welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest today is Ben Borowski. He's a Notion ambassador and he runs the Notion Mastery Program, which is a course which people can take to get a handle on the crazy beast known as Notion, which is. Has infinite potential, but then also, with that infinite potential, also has the tyranny of potential, so. Which I'm experiencing greatly right now. So welcome to the show, Ben.
Yeah. What's your take on the tyranny of potential? Do you still feel it when you, when you use Notion?
I honestly don't anymore because I think I've sort of exhausted what I think is the, the feature set of Notion at some point. You know, when we, we do weekly sessions, training and showing what's new in the, in the software and how it's year. So we've been early. We were some of the first ambassadors. So we've kind of been there since the app second version, which was kind of their big public launch. So, yeah, I think at this point, like, you know, I've seen, I've seen a lot and we've done, you know, we've trained now about 2,000, 3,000 students or so and a couple hundred organizations that we've helped to either train or do setups for. And so we've kind of seen quite a, quite a range of the. Of the different things that people were run into when they use a no code platform like Notion from the personal and from the organizational perspective.
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