Oct 26 2020 73 mins 9
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 Roam for Teamwork: covering multiplayer knowledge bases, where everything is connected and nothing is duplicated. How to set up Rome as a place where teamwork naturally builds a coherent repository of the organization's knowledge. So if you are interested in setting up a multi-player Roam for your team, this is a great resource for you. You can find this roamforteamwork.com. Starting off with a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the Australian National University and getting into entrepreneurship, Mat is now working on Health Horizon, managing a team of four on a shared Roam Graph. So this episode will be all about processes, methods, product management and more, all on detailed Roam-specific processes. We are going to get technical In this episode. We talked about: Starting a podcast about academia and getting paid $10k for 5 episodes How Mat stepped away from academic papers and focused on popular scientific breakthroughs The mission behind Health Horizon Mat's multiplayer workflow: queries to sprints, Sales CRM, tasklist management, pseudo-notifications and more Why multiplayer Roam is the inverse of singleplayer Roam And more. Enjoy! Timestamps 2:30 $10,000 for 5 podcast episodes on academia 9:20 Why is his website called Unlamed? 11:23 [[Science Communication]], and losing interest in science 13:52 Academic papers are more about accountability 16:32 Making the jump from academia to entrepreneurship 18:40 Barrier comparisons between physics and biology/medicine 20:33 What happened to these promising medical breakthroughs? Health Horizon's story 23:41 Who it's for: Health innovation, Roam Medical, etc. 26:08 Discovering Roam by mistake during Christmas 30:03 An Inverse graph, implementing Roam into [[Health Horizon]] 31:58 Health Horizon workflow: The Attention page 33:07 Sidebar shortcuts, tags and deliverables 36:23 Splitting notifications into multiple types 40:23 How [[Health Horizon]] runs sprints in Roam 44:34 Pagination and standardization saves time 46:13 Restructuring in Roam has little friction 48:17 Using attributes to enforce structure and summarize 50:54 Tracking new sales opportunities: an example 54:56 Sales are a case by case basis, no templates 56:39 Recreating Team Excel in Roam 58:06 Mat's requests: notifications and dropdown 1:02:50 Transcribing physical books and margins into Roam 1:08:32 [[How would you describe Roam to someone who hasn't started using it?]] 1:10:52 [[What does Roam mean to you?]] Links Mat McGann's Twitter Health Horizon Roam for Teamwork Unlamed: The blog of Jamie Freestone and Mathew McGann Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/normanchella)
