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

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 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] Picks Joël's pick How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens Jared's pick Jesse Welles

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This episode was published on Sep 2, 2025.

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