Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville
Update: 2025-09-02
Description
Joël Quenneville conveys his growth process—taking notes, creating connections between ideas, and sharing those artifacts.
Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.
Music by Jesse Moore.
Recording date: 2025.01.30
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Show notes
[00:00:19 ] Sponsored by Logistically
[00:00:39 ] Introducing Joël
- Some blog posts by Joël
- Sample Joël podcast appearances
- Elm Radio 32 - "Elm's Universal Pattern"
- Elm Radio 52 - "Category Theory in Elm with Joël Quenneville"
- SW Unscripted - 35:11 ">"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 ] Picks
Joël's pick
- How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
Jared's pick
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