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Danny and Em

by Jonathan Stewart & Danny Hatcher

Previously known as "Notion Nerds". A weekly podcast exploring light hearted conversation around Personal Knowledge Management + Productivity through an Ecological dynamics approach.Hosted by Amelia Stewart: https://simplicity-specialist.com and Danny Hatcher: https://dannyhatcher.com/

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Episodes

  1. Managing Energy

    We spoke about energy management in this session, as well as exploring the definitions of projects and tasks. Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  2. Be more specific

    We have another discussion about labels, and how actually what if Labels are useful? Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  3. Throwing out the rulebook

    We dive into Danny's experience with the coaching industry, and his experience with the coaching training, and the ecological approach (because do we ever talk about anything else :p) Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  4. The difficulty of everyday behaviour

    In this episode we explore building a sustainable online presence and business by focusing on authenticity and their unique experiences vs trying to do it other ways with funnels and all the traditional ways of approaching things. Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ |...

  5. When are social labels useful?

    In this episode we explore social labels, ADHD, Autism and their relationship. Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  6. Student Becoming The Master?

    We discuss a little bit about course creation, and using an Ecological Approach to course design, as well as a conversation around sharing your experience as an educator. Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website Watch the Podcast

  7. Marketing The Ecological Approach

    We discuss marketing the ecological approach, which is what we're both attempting to do! How do we balance between marketing, and sticking with the Ecological Approach. Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ Watch the Podcast

  8. Feeling instructions that make more sense...

    We discuss about "feeling instructions" vs being told how to do it. Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ Watch the Podcast

  9. Ali Abdaal made some interesting points...

    We speak about Ali's conversation around building a business. Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ Watch the Podcast

  10. Ecological Linguistics

    We discuss the language of the Ecological Approach. Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ Watch the Podcast

  11. Ecological Games

    We talk about Ecological Games. Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ Watch the Podcast

  12. Andrew Huberman is a good example

    We discuss Andrew Huberman and his approaches. Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ Watch the Podcast

  13. WTF is Ecological Psychology

    WE take a step back and talk about WTF is Ecological Psychology. This episode is inspired by our joint article with the same title. Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ Watch the Podcast

  14. BASB Conference

    In this episode we talk a little bit about BASB, and our experience with Conferences and the struggles when you gain expertise in a topic. Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ Watch the Podcast

  15. Ecological Conferences

    We have an interesting chat about Conferences, and how we could create n Ecological Conference, where instead of it being focused on teaching, it's about the in between bits, where people are exploring problems in a practical (ecological) sense. Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan...

  16. Confusing Neuroscience

    In this episode we talk a little bit about the relationship of Neuroscience and ADHD, Autism and other forms of Neurodiversity. We talk about the assumptions of the "Default Mode Network" and how it's just confusing. Instead of exploring the Ecological Approach which is focused on direct...

  17. Ranting About Mini Essays

    We delve into the frustrations with oversimplified advice in business and personal growth. We chat about the limitations of step-by-step guides and talk a LOT about ecological design and continuous thinking. We also touch on the value of communication, coordination, and constraints in parenting…

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  18. What it means to be smart

    We dive into what it means to be "smart" we chat about some common misconceptions that intelligent or smart characters are meant to undermine others or showcase their superiority! We also talk about the bible and the assumptions surrounding "reading 00:00 Opening Banter and Setting the Stage…

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  19. Do Well Read People Exist?

    In this chat, we discuss David Perell's recent tweet sharing is idea of the Bible as the ultimate source of education, touching on their personal experiences and views on religion. We also express frustration with adding complexity around "idea emergence", mentioned by Nick Milo noting that these...

  20. Co-ordinating with Others

    In this episode we speak about "affordances", and Danny poses the question... can we see affordances in the environment of others? TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Introduction 1:40 Affordances of others 22:40 Notion app future 35:00 Cognitive load 57:10 Parenting with affordances Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ |...

  21. Teaching "Generation Alpha" to Read

    Danny found some interesting content around how Gen Alpha's don't know how to read... it opens up a discussion about making it matter... why should it matter to them, and we dive into things from there! :) TIMESTAMPS/TOPICS: 0:00 Teaching to read 17:30 Appropriate parenting 32:00 Caring about the...

  22. Future of Notion & Action Management

    A rare Notion episode appears... with Notion's acquisition of Skiff, we discuss what that means... and have some cool guesses... a classic Notion Nerds episode, with a little bit of ecological distractions after 😉 0:00 Notion & Skiff 9:30 Calendar organisation 16:00 Apps for business 19:00 AI...

  23. How do we actually do systems thinking?

    In this episode we chat about Systems Thinking and Ecological Psychology, are they the same or are they different? Danny asks Jon and we discuss! Timestamps 0:00 Systems thinking 10:00 Managing notes 26:30 Ecological language 32:30 Arguments 41:00 Coaching fundamental skills 47:00 Addressing...

  24. Engaging with Research

    How do we engage in research, what does that look like and how do we do it? A question we're exploring in today's session! Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  25. Grappling with the Ecological Approach

    In this episode we speak to Scott about how he's bringing the Ecological Approach into MMA fighting and we discuss the theory, in it's practical application.

  26. Ecological Psychology in 2024

    We discuss our plans for 2024 and a sneak into the future of what we're focused on! TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Introduction 6:50 Creator education 15:55 New year goals 23:00 Digital literacy 39:00 Writing for an audience 48:30 Book writing 54:50 Ecological systems 1:04:00 Understanding opposing opinions...

  27. Troubleshooting Ecological Psychology

    We discuss troubleshooting the ecological approach, reflecting on our chat with Dr Jeffery and Dr Julia, as well as talking about Online Communication. 0:00 The ecological approach on YouTube 22:00 Interpretation of information 33:00 Online Communication 40:00 Simplicity + Energy 1:04:00 How to...

  28. Ecological Memory

    In this episode we talk about Memory from an Ecological Perspective Timestamps: 0:00 Having bad memory 30:00 Neurodiverse thinking 44:00 Memories and skill 1:07:50 Child education 1:29:00 Healthy technology use 1:42:00 Misinformation online 1:45:00 Technology constraints 1:51:40 Teaching...

  29. Obsidian Vault Building

    Jon's been building his DnD Vault, and in this episode we talk about this and a host of other things! (because it's not a podcast episode if it's not got tons of other discussions!) Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  30. Making Obsidian Videos

    In this episode we talk about refining our Obsidian vaults over time. We discuss adapting template-based systems to individual workflows while retaining flexibility. We delve into structuring notes for different types of characters in roleplaying games. Metadata Menu continues to be highlighted…

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  31. Obsidian Updates And Speculations

    WEdiscuss the new 1.5.0 desktop update for Obsidian, focusing on improvements to tables and canvas functionality and our excitement with Canvas Candy plugin, especially new options for adding headers, footers, and labels to cards. Jon explains how he uses these features to organize D&D campaign...

  32. The Open Source Ecosystem of Obsidian

    In this episode, We discuss and debate the evolving open source note-taking app Obsidian. As the community grows, how can it balance accessibility with compensating developers? We discuss Ali Abdaal's comments about equity investment. And analyse whether large "creators" are better defined as…

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  33. Writing in Obsidian

    In this episode we're talking about Writing in Obsidian more specifically how Jon uses Obsidian for DND! We chat about how Jon finds the app helpful for initiatives tracking in combat encounters by having character sheets and abilities easily accessible. It also allows players to review past...

  34. Fictional Reality (Writing Fiction)

    We talk about fiction writing and a little bit about D&D :)

  35. AI Summaries

    In this episode we talk about AI summarising inspired by Tiago Forte's recent video on his channel Tiago's Video Joint Research Notes: ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  36. Neurodiverse Tools

    We have a chat about the concept of "Neurodiverse Friendly" tools, all from an ecological perspective. Joint Research Notes: ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  37. What's on our phones... (App Talk!)

    We share what apps we primarily use on our phones, and then dive into some philosophical discussion immediately after (because when don't we.)

  38. BASB Revisited

    Both of us have taken BASB, we chat all about our thoughts now, after a couple of years

  39. Gamifying Education

    We're talking about gamifying education Joint Research Notes: ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  40. Obsidian reviews and student life with Aidan

    We have a chat with a long time listener of our podcast, as he shares how he uses Reviews. Joint Research Notes: ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  41. Internet in Schools

    Joint Research Notes: ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  42. What makes Jon tick... Philosophy of Practice Walkthrough

    So we're diving into creating Jon's Philosophy of Practice. A Philosophy of practice is an ever evolving document that evidences the actions someone takes. You can find both of our POP's in VaultCraft! Joint Research Notes: ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:...

  43. Education Scandels

    The episode where Danny has a great big rant about education, and where Jon nods their head in agreement... Joint Research Notes: ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  44. Social Media is not the Problem

    We have a chat about how social media has influenced our productivity!

  45. Obsidian Update (All The Properties!)

    This week we talk all about the Obsidian properties update!

  46. Is AI Smarter?

    AI is getting smarter... or is it? We discuss Joint Research Notes: ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  47. Feeling Drained

    How do we manage energy? This is what we're talking about today! Joint Research Notes: ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  48. This approach changes everything!

    Whilst in Berlin Danny and Jon were both reading An Introduction to Ecological Psychology, and we thought what if we invite the writers on to chat more! So we did! Book: https://amzn.to/3O48ju1 (affiliate link!)

  49. Note Taking Archetypes

    The Architect, Gardener and Librarian. Do they exist and what apps do they fit with... and do we even agree with these ideas... (of course we don't... we contrarian 😁) Joint Research Notes: ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart: ⁠Website⁠ | ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

  50. Note Organisation - Folders, Links or Tags?

    The PKM world loves to talk about which is better when sorting your notes. Should you put things into folders, or perhaps just have everything linked together on an MOC (master of contents)... or do we just tags. In this episode we chat about our thoughts... and surprising no one we have opinions...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Previously known as "Notion Nerds". A weekly podcast exploring light hearted conversation around Personal Knowledge Management + Productivity through an Ecological dynamics approach.Hosted by Amelia Stewart: https://simplicity-specialist.com and Danny Hatcher: https://dannyhatcher.com/

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Jonathan Stewart & Danny Hatcher

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Previously known as "Notion Nerds". A weekly podcast exploring light hearted conversation around Personal Knowledge Management + Productivity through an Ecological dynamics approach.Hosted by Amelia Stewart: https://simplicity-specialist.com and Danny Hatcher: https://dannyhatcher.com/

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