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] PicksJoël's pick

• How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens

Jared's pick

• Jesse Welles