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Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville


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Joël Quenneville conveys his growth process—taking notes, creating connections between ideas, and sharing those artifacts.

Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected].

Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2025.01.30

Guest
  • Joël Quenneville
Show notes[00:00:19] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:39] Introducing Joël
  • Some blog posts by Joël
    • "Structuring Conditionals in a Wizard"
    • "The Mechanics of Maybe"
    • "Problem Solving with Maybe"
  • Sample Joël podcast appearances
    • Elm Radio 32 - "Elm's Universal Pattern"
    • Elm Radio 52 - "Category Theory in Elm with Joël Quenneville"
    • SW Unscripted - "Conditional Cardinality with Joël Quenneville"
  • Some of Joël's conference talks
    • "Rolling Random Romans" at elm-conf 2016
    • "A Number by Any Other Name" at Elm in the Spring 2019
    • "Inverting a binary tree with 1 line of Elm" from an Elm Online meetup in 2021
[00:01:51] Getting started crafting software[00:09:37] Discovering Elm[00:11:50] JSON Decoders, and then...
  • Reasoning by Analogy by Joël Quenneville
  • Getting Unstuck with Elm JSON Decoders by Joël Quenneville
  • Elm’s Universal Pattern by Joël Quenneville
[00:23:57] Inspiration, artifacts, and note-taking
  • Learning by helping out in the Elm Slack by Joël Quenneville
  • My Note Taking System Gives Me Constant Ideas by Joël Quenneville
  • Obsidian
  • The Notecard System: The Key For Remembering, Organizing And Using Everything You Read by Ryan Holiday
  • Gingko Writer 
[00:39:11] Active versus passive growth
  • Turning experience into growth by Joël Quenneville
[00:49:47] Collect mental models and heuristics
  • Triangle of Separation by Joël Quenneville
  • Elm Town 76 – Between the paving stones with Andrew Lenards
  • Andrew's Arboriculture zine No. 001 – Joël's Triangle
[00:54:18] PicksJoël's pick
  • How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
Jared's pick
  • Jesse Welles
...more
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