Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville
SEPTEMBER 2ND, 2025
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56:16
Joël Quenneville conveys his growth process—taking notes, creating connections between ideas, and sharing those artifacts.
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
Show notes
[00:00:19] Sponsored by Logistically
[00:00:39] Introducing Joël
- Some blog posts by Joël
- Sample Joël podcast appearances
- 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