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Hi, I’m Simo
I write essays and create digital systems to facilitate intentional living.

Recognized as Notion certified consultant, Make certified partner, and all-around workflows and API automation developer and coach. For working together, visit my business website.

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Essays

Business

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Cross-Cultural Leadership: The GLOBE Dimensions

High power distance communities expect everyone to obey their leaders without question, regardless of the context they are in. Such cultures emphasize an unequal distribution of power among the population, and power is perceived to be a catalyst for orderliness.

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Strategy Analysis: External & Internal Environment

Similar to sleep, or health and fitness, there are specific tools and protocols we can follow when it comes to business strategy. Strategy analysis is the first stage of strategic management. Strategy is the science and practice of setting organizational decisions based on evidence, data.

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How to use Notion sub-items and dependencies

There are a lot of components to managing a project—or many projects—effectively (i.e., all the work gets done with high quality in a timely manner). Doing the work and managing the work are two distinct jobs, akin to production and editing when writing. When you are managing a project, you put all the pieces together, visualize the path, and schedule your action through defined blocks of time.

Essays

Life

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A Framework For Life - How To Live Your Life

Some thoughts and practices I have been developing over time and am ready to share, or maybe not.

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How to Send Webhook Requests From Notion

Discover how to create and set up webhooks that can be triggered from Notion databases, also using dynamic URL parameters from property values.

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The Art of Relationships

Drawing from Haley’s framework of relationships, in a radio talk from the 1960s, Alan Watts explains that in a therapist-patient relationship, as well as in most normal life relationships, there is typically one person who is one-up and the other person who is one-down in any given situation.

Essays

Fitness

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Everything You Need to Know About Training Volume

Workout volume is indisputably a key variable responsible for muscle hypertrophy. Using and manipulating it wisely in training programs can make the difference when it comes to optimizing results over the long run.

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Fat Loss Tracking Notion Template

The fat loss tracking Notion template is a calculator of everything concerning your nutrition. What I mean by "everything" is TDEE (total daily energy expenditure), Calorie deficit, calories per day to eat in a deficit, macronutrients (protein, fats, carbohydrates).

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The Practice and Science of Legs-Push-Pull Workouts

In previous articles, we analyzed full-body training and the Upper/Lower split. In an attempt to complete the tour of "modern" resistance training regimes, this post dives into the legs/push/pull workout split, especially focusing on the fundamental characteristics of this approach, its advantages, disadvantages, and implementation.