Quick thread
"I hate feeling stupid, they all made me feel stupid"
He'd have a 1:1 with his head of Product - they had some issue with Head of Sales or Engineering
Note is only actionable later when he has 1:1 with the other party
Some notes from meeting needed to get to Product
Some needed to go to Marketing
Some he'd want for next Roadmap meeting
With back2back meetings - no time to move notes into 10 different contexts where they might be actionable
But it still took him a few weeks of playing with the product before he figured out a strategy that REALLY solved this problem for him
Consistent linking
Executives have to manage information flow, break up silos in their organization.
They're interdisciplinary researchers - know it or not
Holding all of the context and next action items in your head.
When 8 people report to you, or have demands from 20 customers whose needs you have to balance...
Gets unsustainable fast
Notion is great single source of truth for teams, polished docs
Roam is for messy scraps of thought that you need in multiple contexts
PKM
Here's an example of doing a 360 review process in Roam
And using {{attr-table}} to visualize the aggregate of the reviews
Database is publicly readable - play around
roamresearch.com/#/app/axecapit…
Using the Query component so you can really quickly see if there are any action items you have related to the person you are meeting with
Full video:
Sample workspace:
roamresearch.com/#/app/axecapit…
Also shows how you can use datepicker to schedule things for future attention - and idea of using a tag like #amazon so when you get a book recommendation in a meeting, the rec appears when you're in context to buy