Simon is the founder of Better Creating, a business he started in 2020 geared towards simplifying productivity and finding the best ideas tools and tech to help people create the life they want. His YouTube channel has over 130,000 subscribers, where he makes tutorials, tech reviews and more. Simon is another creator who has gone deep on Notion, building a second brain and many other systems that he sells as templates. Today we’re going to find out what it’s like being a full-time creator and why the Notion ecosystem is booming still in 2024.

Links

• Better Creating YouTube Channel
• Simon’s Notion Templates
• The Generalist Co
• How to make your first 5 hires podcast

James Recommendations

• Shoe Dog
• Podcastage
• Hamilton

JR Recommendations

• Charlie Munger handbook
• Hard Thing About Hard Things
• Erik Anders Lang (Adventures in Golf)
• Cirque Du Soleil

Simon Recommendations

• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Anything You Want (James has some spare copies of this. DM him if you’d like a copy for free)
• Into the Woods
• Scott Yu-Jan
• Sleep No More

Timestamps

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:15 From theatre director to content creator
• 05:47 Choosing to make content not based on his career
• 07:36 Staying consistent creating content as a side project
• 12:47 Making money with small audiences
• 22:38 Keeping up a production schedule
• 24:53 The Notion template business
• 27:07 Are Notion templates a waste of time?
• 31:38 Is the template space too crowded?
• 34:53 Platform risk building on top of Notion
• 38:54 Coming up with template ideas
• 41:58 How to price Notion templates
• 45:27 Building a team
• 54:41 Book, YouTube and Theatre recommendations

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