OtiumFM
OtiumFM is an upcoming show deep-diving into the world of Tools for Thought, or TFTs! Featuring insights on note-taking, making connections between thoughts, and serendipity, host Norman Chella brings you conversations with individuals in this space so you can better your note-taking experience. Expect guests from various TFT apps, independent researchers, and varying professions who bring with them note-taking insights, from analog to digital and even hypergraphic!
Coming out soon.
In the first two seasons, this show was called RoamFM, the podcast all about Roam Research, for members of the Roaman community. In these two seasons, join us as we dive into the minds of amazing Roam users, taking a peek into how they use Roam to create wonderful connections.
Episodes
33 episodes
Cato Minor: Roam Experiments, Medieval Knowledge Work, Memory
Join our AirrSpace to talk about how Roam could scale! You can find it hereIn this episode, we talk with Cato Minor, who...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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1:27:33
Bardia Pourvakil: Autodidact, Roam Team, and Fulfillment
Warning! This is an explicit episode!In this episode, we talk with Bardia Pourvakil, AKA @thepericulum. Bardia is a member of the Roam Research team, having started off as a technical writer and dove into the world of Roam....
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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1:19:18
Beau Haan: Roam Book Club, Block-level Zettelkasten, Roaman Community
WARNING: This is an explicit episode!This is for Lydia.In this episode, we talk with Beau Haan, a trained actor, model, and one of the key pillars of the Roaman community. Leading the Roam Book Club, he's built a s...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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1:37:59
Abhay Prasanna: Aesthetics, Personal Salience and Sovereignty
In this episode, we talk with [[Abhay Prasanna]], Founder of Roam Bounties, and active Roaman in Slack as well as the Twitter Roaman community. Abhay is always up to date when it comes to everything related to CSS and adding in visualizations t...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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1:27:59
Jeff Morris Jr.: Investing Frameworks, Product Management
In this episode, we talk with Jeff Morris Jr. aka @jmj on Twitter, who is the Founder and General Partner of Chapter One VC. He was previously the VP of Product Revenue at Tinder, and in the role, Tinder became the number one top-grossing apps ...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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1:06:20
Ryan Muller: Fractal Inquiry, Spaced Repetition, Education
In this episode, we talk with Ryan Muller, the author of Fractal Inquiry. Focusing on learning and education at Google For Education, Ryan wrote Fractal Inquiry in pursuit of a system for building knowledge in Roam.It covers the tools yo...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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1:00:24
Richard Meadows: The First Roaman, Optionality
Welcome to the final episode of Season 1! In this episode, we talk with Richard Meadows, a finance writer, investor, and journalist. After quitting his full-time job at age 25, he has been pursuing his own hobbies and research inter...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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1:32:59
Sam Marfleet: Stories, Study Guides, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
In this episode, we talk with Sam Marfleet, who is a writer, a marketer, and currently writing a study guide to The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago. He discovered Roam in early 2020, Which had answers to a question ...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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1:19:21
Ramses Oudt: RoamStack, Online Courses, Knowledge Management
In this episode, we talk with Ramses Oudt, who is the Co-Founder of RoamStack, helping you find the tools, techniques, and workflows. You need to get the most out of Roam Research. Ramses is a teacher turned technical consultant, a move made po...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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1:13:46
Mridula Duggal: PhD Research, Macroeconomics, Inflation Expectations
In this episode, we talk with Mridula Duggal who is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the IDEA Graduate Programme, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Focusing on monetary policy, adaptive expectations...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:11:46
Cortex Futura: Algorithms of Thought, Political Science and Context-Dependent Insight
In this episode, we talk with Lukas Kawerau, aka. Cortex Futura on Twitter! A known Roaman in the personal knowledge management space, Cortex is an educator through the Roam courses Galaxy Brain and Cite to Write, to help you build deeper knowl...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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1:28:18
R.J. Nestor: Your Road to Roam, Getting Things Done, Non-singing (V1)
In this episode, we talk with RJ Nestor, an executive coach, musician, and writer. With 20 years of experience helping people say what they mean to say and do what they mean to do, he does a variety of things: from coaching actors how to sing t...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:30:43
Andy Narracott: Finding Impact, Social Entrepeneurship and Philanthropy (V1)
In this episode, we talk with Andy Narracott, Founder of Finding Impact, a practical resource for social entrepreneurs in the trenches, making things happen against all odds. This includes the Finding Impact Podcast, with weekly interviews on s...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:07:10
Mike Schmitz: Faith-Based Productivity and Sketch Notes (V1)
In this episode we talk with Mike Schmitz, who is a productivity nerd (as written on his website), loves reading books and enjoys making things. He is currently the Executive Editor at The Sweet Setu...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:23:03
Drew Coffman: Leonardo Da Vinci, Roam Community, Nostalgia (V1)
In this episode, we talk with Drew Coffman, who is an optimist interested in the connections between creativity, technology and true meaning.As someone who has been on Twitter for a very long time, Drew is in multiple circles from Tech ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:42:19
Joel Chan: Knowledge Synthesis, Analog Media and Zettel Questions
In this episode, we talk with Joel Chan, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. His involves the following quote: 'My research seeks to understand and create generalizable configurations of people, computing and informat...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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42:10
Roam Creators x Monetization (Audio Version)
Click here for the video version on YouTube!With Roam Fund, Roam Scholars Program, APIs and Multiplayer Roam coming up, there's still some things I'd like to figure out:Ho...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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2:12:26
Mat McGann: Roam for Teamwork, Health Horizon
In this episode, we talk with Matt McGann, who is the founder of Health Horizon. tracking upcoming health technologies as they develop in real time for companies, investors, and innovators as well.He is also the creator of
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:13:36
Brandon Toner: Healthcare, Note-taking Philosophy, Schooling with Roam
In this episode, we talk with Brandon Toner, a pharmacist based in Nova Scotia, Canada. He's known from his goal to build a habit of expression through a reset on Twitter. This is a broad episode ranging from healthcare to school, note-taking p...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:33:04
Tracy Winchell: Roaman Journal, Three Selves, Next Note to Myself
In this episode, we talk with Tracy Winchell, the Founder of Roaman Journals. A teacher of daily journaling practices to others, Tracy is a self introspective person ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:16:41
Dalton Mabery: Obsidian, Remixing Knowledge, and Elitism
In this episode, we talk with Dalton Mabery, a YouTuber, video editor and tweet thread maker at 20 years old, trying to find the intersection between church and technology. His YouTube channel covers tech, productivity, and lifestyle with a lot...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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55:03
Ali Abdaal: Content Creation, The Perfect Note-Taking App
In this episode, we talk with Ali Abdaal, a Cambridge university medicine graduate, a former doctor in the UK National Health Service and a prolific YouTuber, making videos about life as a medical student, productivity tips, tech, Roam Research...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:37:09
Aravind Balla: Gatsby-theme-Andy, Learning Curve
In this episode, we talk with Aravind Balla, a software developer working remotely from Hyderabad, India. He loves JS and CSS, and is the co-host of the Learning Curve podcast, sharing his findings, discoveries, and, his learning journey with f...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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54:27
Kahlil Corazo: Fabricating Serendipity, Accessible Genomics, Business Model Canvas
Today's guest is Kahlil Corazo, who is building Project Accessible Genomics, a playbook for deploying genomic pathogen surveillance in the global South. He is also creating training materials on using Roam for project management, as well as Fab...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:30:41
Jessie Li: Roam/CN and Collective Intelligence
In this episode, we talk with Jessie Li, an independent consultant at Singapore Management University's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, and Founder of Fat Garage, an interesting website covering Chinese entrepreneurs in niche markets, s...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:12:02