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Andy Payne—architect and software developer at McNeel—on the origins of Grasshopper, Grasshopper 2, Rhino.Compute, teaching, learning to code, generative AI, open-source code, and his journey. Andy Payne is a licensed architect and software developer at Robert McNeel & Associates, the company behind Rhino and Grasshopper 3D. He is a Doctor of Design graduate from Harvard's Graduate School of Design (2014). Andy has lectured and taught workshops throughout the US, Canada, and Europe, and his work has received awards from several leading academic organizations. Andy has also co-authored several software plugins and desktop apps (including Firefly and Monolith). At McNeel, Andy works on the Grasshopper and Rhino.Compute projects for the Rhino 3D modeling environment. Connect with Andy LIFT Architects Monolith by Andy Payne & Panagiotis Michalatos Firefly by Andy Payne & Jason Kelly Johnson Favorite quotes “Nobody wants to spend days and days developing a model. Our job as developers is to make it as easy as possible. […] There's something about the craft and time you spent developing your ideas into a 3D model. There's something about that investment that makes it worthwhile. When you have an easy AI button that makes it for you then it trivializes [the process].” —Andy Payne “Originally the product was called Explicit History, because it was a different approach to Rhino's native (implicit) history feature.” —David Rutten Links Rhinoceros Grasshopper 3D Explicit History Form-Z 3ds Max Slow Food Nation Canopy (2008) Grasshopper Primer by Andy Payne & Rajaa Issa Grasshopper Data Trees Rhino.Compute (Source code) Grasshopper Hops New Grasshopper data types Rhino Core-Hour Billing Visual Programming C-Sharp (C#), Visual Basic (VB) & Python Stable Diffusion, DALL-E & Midjourney Nighthawks by Edward Hopper IKEA effect People mentioned Rajaa Issa · McNeel David Rutten · McNeel Jason Kelly Johnson · FUTUREFORMS Daniel Piker Shelby Doyle Edward Hopper Panagiotis Michalatos Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 00:35 · Andy Payne 04:11 · Grasshopper origins 07:23 · Andy meets Grasshopper 09:19 · Grasshopper Primer 10:26 · Grasshopper 1.0 13:22 · Grasshopper 2 15:11 · Developing Grasshopper 16:59 · New data types 18:57 · Rhino Compute & Hops 22:32 · Cloud billing 27:05 · Teaching 30:07 · Visual programming 36:23 · Open source & monetization 42:03 · McNeel Forum 50:07 · Connect with Andy 51:57 · Learning to code 58:00 · Generative AI 01:02:09 · The IKEA effect 01:05:38 · Authorship 01:08:56 · AI trade-offs 01:12:58 · Panagiotis Michalatos 01:16:02 · Advice for young people 01:17:08 · Success 01:18:35 · $100 or less 01:20:12 · Outro I'd love to hear from you. Submit a question about this or any previous episodes. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Thanks to Andrea Villalón Paredes for editing this interview. Sleep and A Loop to Kill For songs by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Ian Keough—CEO and founder of Hypar and the father of Dynamo—on how Hypar is creating the next-generation platform to design, generate, and share buildings, and thoughts on open-source software, visual programming, authorship, monetization, and generative AI. Connect with Ian Hypar Hypar Elements Hypar on Discord Favorite quotes “What would we have to build to have [our new AEC software stack] decoupled from all of the historical and legacy software?” “I just can't stand toil.” “You don't wanna penalize the customer for using the system more.” Links Revit Tekla AutoCAD PyTorch Unity Dynamo Grasshopper Python and C# IFC OpenAI Codex DALL-E Stable diffusion GPT Runway ML Gather Visual Studio Code GitHub Copilot NVIDIA's Omniverse Calendly People mentioned Andrew Heumann Matt Campbell Serena Li Chuck Driesler Eric Wassail Eric Bass Anthony Hauck Brian Ringley Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 02:08 · Hypar 12:02 · Hypar Elements 14:11 · Visual programming 16:59 · C Sharp 18:24 · Grasshopper on the cloud 19:57 · Do I need to code? 22:11 · Toil 24:03 · Sharing 26:00 · Authorship and knowledge dissemination 37:16 · Remote work 39:27 · Gather 40:44 · Monetization 48:18 · Advice for young people 49:11 · A $100 purchase 50:47 · Artificial intelligence 53:32 · Sustainability 55:37 · Exercise 57:33 · Generative AI I'd love to hear from you. Submit a question about this or any previous episodes. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Thanks to Andrea Villalón Paredes for editing this interview. Sleep and A Loop to Kill For songs by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Alex O'Connor—researcher and ML manager—on the latest trends of generative AI. Language and image models, prompt engineering, the latent space, fine-tuning, tokenization, textual inversion, adversarial attacks, and more. Alex O'Connor got his PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a postdoctoral researcher and funded investigator for the ADAPT Centre for digital content, at both TCD and later DCU. In 2017, he joined Pivotus, a Fintech startup, as Director of Research. Alex has been Sr Manager for Data Science & Machine Learning at Autodesk for the past few years, leading a team that delivers machine learning for e-commerce, including personalization and natural language processing. Favorite quotes “None of these models can read.” “Art in the future may not be good, but it will be prompt.” Mastodon Books Machine Learning Systems Design by Chip Huyen Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow by Aurélien Géron Papers The Illustrated Transformer by Jay Alammar Attention Is All You Need by Google Brain Transformers: a Primer by Justin Seonyong Lee Links Alex in Mastodon ★ Training Dream Booth Multimodal Art on HuggingFace by @akhaliq NeurIPS arxiv.org: Where most papers get published Nono's Discord Suggestive Drawing: Nono's master's thesis Crungus is a fictional character from Stable Diffusion's latent space Machine learning models Stable Diffusion Arcane Style Stable Diffusion fine-tuned model ★ Imagen DALL-E CLIP GPT and ChatGPT BERT, ALBERT & RoBERTa Bloom word2vec Mupert.ai and Google's MusicLM t-SNE and UMAP: Dimensionality reduction techniques char-rnn Sites TensorFlow Hub HuggingFace Spaces ★ DreamBooth Jasper AI Midjourney Distill.pub ★ Concepts High-performance computing (HPC) Transformers and Attention Sequence transformers Quadratic growth Super resolution Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) Long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) Gated recurrent units (GRUs) Bayesian classifiers Machine translation Encoder-decoder Gradio Tokenization ★ Embeddings ★ Latent space The distributional hypothesis Textual inversion ★ Pretrained models Zero-shot learning Mercator projection People mentioned Ted Underwood UIUC Chip Huyen Aurélien Géron Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 00:40 · Machine learning 02:36 · Spam and scams 15:57 · Adversarial attacks 20:50 · Deep learning revolution 23:06 · Transformers 31:23 · Language models 37:09 · Zero-shot learning 42:16 · Prompt engineering 43:45 · Training costs and hardware 47:56 · Open contributions 51:26 · BERT and Stable Diffusion 54:42 · Tokenization 59:36 · Latent space 01:05:33 · Ethics 01:10:39 · Fine-tuning and pretrained models 01:18:43 · Textual inversion 01:22:46 · Dimensionality reduction 01:25:21 · Mission 01:27:34 · Advice for beginners 01:30:15 · Books and papers 01:34:17 · The lab notebook 01:44:57 · Thanks I'd love to hear from you. Submit a question about this or any previous episodes. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Thanks to Andrea Villalón Paredes for editing this interview. Sleep and A Loop to Kill For songs by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Zach Kron, senior product manager at Autodesk, on making and selling pen plotter art, evolving with your projects, capturing ideas, and remote work. Zach is a Senior Product Manager at Autodesk, a global provider of design software. Since 2007, Zach has been involved in the research and implementation of digital tools that drive real world building projects and increase the availability of advanced design practices. While his focus is on making software, Zach also participates in teaching, hands-on workshops, hackathons, and all other forms of design technology community development. You can find Zach at Buildz.info. Zach's Art store Blog First podcast appearance Favorite quotes “The process is fun, and more than the actual editing process is the process of ideating the best workflow that you can get.” —Nono “We aren't really good at having something that you do just for the sake of it. We need to have the side effect.” —Zach “But you have to remember that I didn't have to put on pants today.” —Zach Books Formulations by Andrew Witt Systems Upgrade by Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah The Information by James Clear Links Pen plotter art Chiaroscuro (art) Dynamo and Revit (software) Adobe Podcast (formerly Project Shasta) In Seth Godin's words, “funktionlust is a German word that describes the love of doing something merely for the sake of doing it.” Social capital (concept) People mentioned Jose Luis García del Castillo (podcast) Andrew Witt (podcast) Rev Dan Catt (@revdancatt) Dana De Filippi - DanamoBIM Bill Debevc - YouTube channel Seth Godin (author) Steven Pressfield (author) Lex Fridman (podcast) Neil Stephenson (author) Alice Cooper (author) Cal Newport (author) Jeff Koons (artist) Chapters 00:00 · Intro 01:00 · Evolution of this podcast 09:46 · Freediving 12:16 · Capturing ideas 13:25 · People are different in person 15:54 · Evolving with your projects 20:10 · Connecting with your audience 21:20 · Live vs. offline 26:19 · The creative medium 30:00 · Selling art 38:46 · Pen plotter art 46:34 · Making art with Dynamo 50:31 · Art 01:02:53 · Funktionlust 01:05:09 · Remote work 01:11:54 · Outro I'd love to hear from you. Submit a question about this or any previous episodes. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Nono Martínez Alonso shares tips on producing a podcast, building an audience, booking guests, content formats, motivation, and goals. Here's my recent conversation with Steve — who wants to build a YouTube channel about the joy of making and listening to music, emphasizing health and well-being — where I shared tips and insights from five years of podcasting. Links Riverside is the tool I used to record this episode remotely. How to monetize YouTube Perl, Java, and JavaScript are programming languages People mentioned Lex Fridman Tim Ferriss Seth Godin Joe Rogan Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 00:58 · Start 01:55 · Steve's idea 03:45 · Passion for music 04:37 · Podcasting 05:20 · Motivation 08:04 · Recording and editing 09:07 · Guests 11:40 · Building an audience 14:01 · Long form conversations 15:34 · Process 17:33 · Goals 21:51 · Evergreen content 24:14 · Monetization 25:38 · Start lean 29:30 · Outline 31:59 · First episodes 33:17 · Outro Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah on decoding and upgrading design systems, reverse engineering the creative process, knowledge dissemination, the long tail of niches, Erwin Hauer and associative models, book writing and publishing, and much more. Leire Asensio is a senior lecturer in urban design and architecture and Co-Director of the Advance Digital Design + Fabrication (ADD+F) at the University of Melbourne's school of design. David Mah is a senior lecturer in urban design and architecture at the University of Melbourne's school of design. Previously, both Leire and David were lecturers at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (2010-2017), design research leads for the Health and Places Initiative, a research collaboration that studied the links between the built environment and health outcomes, and taught design and theory at Cornell University's department of architecture (2006-2010) and Landscape Urbanism at the graduate design school of the Architectural Association in London (2004-2007). Leire and David have worked within several international design practices, including Zaha Hadid Architects, FOA (David), or Arup (Leire), engaging in the design and delivery of urban designs and architectural projects Leire and David have been collaborating as asensio_mah since 2002. They've authored the books Systems Upgrade: (Re)fabricating Tectonic Prototypes (2022, Actar) and Lifestyled: Health and Places (2016, Jovis) and have been active in the production of architectural and creative works, exhibited internationally including at the Royal Academy of Art in London and The Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and featured in professional books and journals published by Birkhauser, Evolo, Lars Muller, Actar and Routledge amongst others. In this episode, we discuss their latest book, Systems Upgrade, which offers a design research approach that leverages the embodied knowledge latent within the material legacies of design history for direct applicability in creative practice. Books Systems Upgrade by Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah The Long Tail by Chris Anderson Translations from Drawing to Building by Robin Evans Links Suture curve Continua surface Reconstruction of the Dresden cathedral Sagrada Familia Visual programming Grasshopper Dynamo Digital Project The Long Tail by Chris Anderson in WIRED Nike by You Objectile by Bernard Cache and Patrick Beaucé Actar DALL-E by OpenAI Midjourney Stable Diffusion People mentioned Erwin Hauer Enrique Rosado Joseph Albers Sheila Hicks Jørn Utzon Miguel Fisac Buckminster Fuller Eladio Dieste Victor Papanek Antoni Gaudí Chris Anderson Robin Evans Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 00:36 · Erwin Hauer 02:22 · Associative models 04:18 · Erwin Hauer's model making 07:03 · Limitations of digital tools 09:39 · Systems Upgrade book 11:10 · Reverse engineering 26:09 · Decoding Erwin Hauer 30:21 · Authorship and knowledge dissemination 36:48 · Visual programming 41:39 · Selling less of more 46:54 · Individualizing everything 49:23 · Context 53:18 · Book writing and publishing 01:02:49 · Creative process 01:11:13 · AI content generation 01:17:42 · Thanks 01:18:43 · Outro Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Frank Harmon on the purpose of writing and sketching, what makes great writers, artists, and architects, and the importance of giving people a sense of place. Frank Harmon, FAIA, is a nationally renowned award-winning architect, a professor of architecture at NC State University's College of Design. and a popular mentor to four decades of student architects. A graduate of the Architectural Association in London and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he has also taught at the Architectural Association and has served as a visiting critic at Harvard, the University of Virginia, and Auburn University's renowned Rural Studio. Among dozens of design awards throughout his career, Frank received AIA NC's highest honor, the F. Carter Williams Gold Medal, in 2013. Frank is also a published writer and illustrator, using hand-drawn sketches and 200-word essays that consider the relationship between nature and built structures in his online journal Nativeplaces.org. In 2018, ORO Editions published a collection of sketch/essay duos from the journal and Frank's thoughts on the value of drawing in a hardback book entitled Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See. He is currently working on a new book that celebrates the people, places, and stories behind eight of his signature projects. Frank lives in Raleigh in the award-winning modernist house and lush gardens near NCSU that he designed with his late wife, landscape architect Judy Harmon. Favorite quotes “My goal in life is to make short sentences.” “We lost contact with our senses by making everything depend on the visual.” “When we draw, we touch.” “Once we've bought into the digital internet world, we're never going to get rid of it.” “When we make a place [we should make it] situated in its place so that we've got something physical and concrete that grounds us in an otherwise unlimited digital world.” “Genius is the ability to recall your childhood at any time.” —Baudelaire Books Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See by Frank Harmon The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses by Juhani Pallasmaa Links Frank's Instagram Native Places blog by Frank Harmon Frank's Drawing as a Way to See talk at Clark Nexsen (2019) Frank's Heritage talk at Creative Mornings Raleigh (2014) Less is Love by Frank Harmon People mentioned Ernest Hemingway Joan Didion C. S. Forester Tadao Ando Kevin Carl - Child psychologist, friend Pablo Picasso Henry David Thoureau - “ Every child discovers the world anew.” Peter Zumthor Jordan Gray (podcast) Charles Baudelaire - “[G]enius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.” William Shakespeare Alice Munro - Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 Marlon Blackwell William Faulkner - American writer Glenn Murcutt Tom Kundig Ted Flato Rick Joy - Studio Rick Joy Brigitte Shim - Shim-Sutcliffe Architects Brian MacKay-Lyons Patricia and John Patkau - Patkau Architects Larry Scarpa Frank Gehry James Monroe Henry Woodhead Mies van der Rohe Tadao Ando Le Corbusier Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 01:14 · Writing 05:00 · Becoming an architect 06:21 · Frank's book 07:19 · Living in London 09:03 · Studying abroad in the US 13:37 · Childhood place 20:38 · Born with screens 23:39 · Design 27:42 · Place 33:41 · Good architecture 37:10 · Bad architecture 38:48 · Frank Gehry's middle finger 39:31 · Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See 43:47 · The best way to write 44:23 · The purpose of sketching 45:45 · Thanks 46:09 · Outro Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Experiments with OpenAI's text-to-image generation AI system DALL-E 2, mini-essays on the creative process and being done, and blogging tools you can use. Links DALL-E 2, Explained by Nono (video) Variations of "A minimalist 3d render of a balloon car" plus "A sunflower" by Edward Hopper by Nono x DALL-E OpenAI's DALL-E 2 publication Google Imagen: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Google Parti: Pathways Autoregressive Text-to-Image Model The meaning of done (post) If it's not fun, you shouldn't do it (post) Another one of those (post) Folio: Nono's content management system Substack, Twitter Writer & Medium (blogging platforms) Ghost, WordPress, Jekyll, Hugo & Next.js (blogging frameworks) Nono's sketches and stories YouTube channel Books Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio People mentioned Frank Harmon Ray Dalio Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 00:39 · An incoming conversation with Frank Harmon 01:34 · Episode contents 01:55 · DALL-E 2 and AI systems 06:45 · What can DALL-E do? 09:54 · GPT-3: Language models 12:05 · Mini-Essays on the creative process 12:15 · Mini-Essay: The meaning of done 13:38 · Mini-Essay: If it's no fun, you shouldn't do it 15:33 · Mini-Essay: Another one of those 16:51 · Writing series 17:51 · What does Nono use for blogging? 22:45 · Outro Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Thoughts on traveling and meeting people in person after the COVID-19 pandemic. Favorite quotes "You can do anything that you set your mind to, but you don't have time to do everything.” —Frank Harmon Links It's nice to see you, in person (post) Back from Atlanta (post) Nono's blog Nono's sketches and stories YouTube channel Kean Walmsley's blog post A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg (movie) Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever? by John Seabrook for The New Yorker Books Formulations by Andrew Witt People mentioned Andrew Witt Frank Harmon David Allen Satya Nadella Chapters 00:00 · Start 00:10 · It's Nice to See You, In Person 06:05 · Back from Atlanta 07:34 · Podcast updates Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

My current habits, the podcast, the blog and sketches, the YouTube channel and the live stream, my new recording studio, monetization, crypto, and the importance of learning and play. Books Essentialism by Greg McKeown Links My ‘atomic habits' (podcast) My writing habits (podcast) Nono's blog Nono's sketches and stories Which one would you like to read? (post) NFTs Solana (cryptocurrency) YouTube channel Readwise The Flatten Layer, Explained (video) People mentioned Ian Keough Andrew Witt Joanie Lemercier Aziz Barbar David Allen Dieter Rams Cal Newport Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 01:34 · Daily habits 05:08 · Active projects 07:27 · The blog 09:11 · Sketches & stories 15:06 · Studio 17:06 · Podcast 21:36 · YouTube channel 23:24 · Knowledge anxiety 24:43 · Anything, not everything 25:45 · Monetization 28:41 · Learning and play 32:22 · Crypto and digital art 36:21 · I need your help 39:50 · Outro Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Andrew Witt, associate professor at Harvard University and author of Formulations, on how mathematics and computational methods transform the way we think, design, and make art. Andrew Witt is co-founder, with Tobias Nolte, of Certain Measures, a Boston/Berlin-based office for design futures and an Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University. Trained as both an architect and mathematician, he has a particular interest in a technically synthetic and logically rigorous approach to form. His work has been shown at the Centre Pompidou, Barbican Centre, Futurium, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, among others. Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn and Certain Measures. Favorite quotes “It's not possible to do everything in an amazing way all at once. You have to cycle through those things. Different moments in life will create different opportunities.” “One of the consequences of mass media is that [it] creates intuitions around certain concepts through imagery.” "The only thing that really conveys human value to things is time.” “What remains after people are gone?” Books Formulations by Andrew Witt Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson Synergetics by Buckminster Fuller Links Andrew Witt Certain Measures Application public interface (API) The Black Box with Aziz Barbar Grasshopper & Dynamo Deep nostalgia and deepfakes DeFi and NFTs The adjacent possible is an idea introduced by Stuart Kauffman in 2002 and later used by Steven Johnson Log magazine edited by Cynthia Davidson A Machine Epistemology in Architecture by Andrew Witt MIT Press A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton HfG is Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design Institut Henri Poincaré is a mathematics research institute People mentioned Alfred North Whitehead Charles Johnson - Matrix theorist Buckminster Fuller Steve Baer Bruno Latour Norbert Wiener Tobias Nolte Refik Anadol Satoru Sugihara William Huff Louis Kahn Ben Ferhman-Lee - Graphic designer Cynthia Davidson - Book series editor Sean Canty, Esther Choi, and Cameron Wu Aziz Barbar Henri Poincaré Peter Pierce Sanford Kwinter Paul Erdös Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 01:22 · Mathematical design 06:53 · Gray boxing 09:28 · Black box algorithms 14:26 · Knowledge anxiety 20:47 · Collective authorship 22:04 · Adjacent possible 27:18 · The physical medium 30:13 · Triangulation and photogrammetry 33:40 · Voxel and pixel 37:52 · The role of the designer 41:10 · Formulations book 43:48 · Catalogs 48:56 · The eve of digitization 52:58 · Artificial intelligence 01:00:26 · Mass media 01:02:29 · Research methods 01:06:25 · Book publishing 01:15:10 · Writing 01:19:04 · Digital gardens 01:21:53 · Creative thinking 01:26:20 · Lecture preparation 01:30:20 · Erdös number 01:32:43 · Zines 01:39:54 · Consistency 01:41:08 · Time 01:43:18 · NFTs as value stores 01:48:44 · NFTs at Certain Measures 01:50:42 · The AI design critic 01:55:20 · Modern-day design collectives and influencers 01:58:38 · Advice for young people 02:01:08 · Money 02:03:35 · Collaboration and delegation 02:06:16 · Death 02:07:55 · Success 02:09:27 · Outro Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Adam Menges is a founder at Lobe and a former Apple employee, currently working on something new. Adam Menges is a product designer, entrepreneur, and engineer located in San Francisco who specializes in artificial intelligence and visual programming languages. He's a former Apple employee and founder at Lobe, a company acquired by Microsoft that aims to make deep learning accessible. You can contact Adam to find out more at adammenges.com, and reach out to him at adam@adammenges.com and +17204840285. Books The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander Links HyperCard Lobe The Origins of Lobe - Adam's first appearance on the podcast Figma GPT-3 plugin by Jordan Singer GitHub Copilot Pokemon GO by Niantic Dreams for PlayStation - A game to create games Horizon Worlds by Meta Proof of work vs Proof of stake Support-vector machines The Hive (mesh network) Calendly Google Magenta Moxie Marlinspike's NFT that turns into shit if you buy it Helium Network Hints at Crypto's Practical Uses Visual programming languages Quartz composer Blender Facebook Origami for user interfaces Spark AR for Instagram filters Grasshopper 3d Autodesk Dynamo vvvv Davinci Resolve Fusion Max/Jitter TouchDesigner Unreal Blueprints Node-RED People mentioned Kyle Steinfeld Jordan Singer Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 02:45 · Visual programming 07:40 · Grasshopper 11:14 · Extendability 13:19 · Lobe's visual programming interface 14:31 · The role of visual programming 17:00 · HyperCard 18:11 · Accessibility 20:52 · Making programming easier 23:45 · Artificial intelligence for creatives 24:27 · Polarization and human-machine collaboration 28:12 · Pair programming with AI 31:39 · Software for gamers 35:45 · Healthy social experiences 36:27 · Hindsight 37:00 · Startup success and team dynamics 39:11 · Macro and micro focus 41:38 · Analysis paralysis 43:18 · Routines 45:09 · Ranking the news with AI 48:27 · Staying in touch with friends 50:40 · Zoom fatigue 53:35 · COVID 55:29 · Bitcoin 57:43 · Hacking NFTs 01:01:10 · A crypto use case 01:03:15 · Social FinTech 01:06:45 · Advice for young people 01:08:59 · Happiness 01:10:30 · Connect with Adam Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Nate Peters on being intentional, digital art and generative NFTs, the advantage of established creators, and the fast pace of artificial intelligence & crypto. Nono hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence. Nate works as a software engineer for Autodesk. Before joining Autodesk, he earned his Master of Design Studies in Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture at Iowa State University. We're no experts, so please don't take our words as financial advice. We just hope our conversation sheds some light in your own path to learning more about the world of digital currencies, machine learning, and technology. Links Substack & Revue Memberful Descript's new features Typinator, PHP, Bash & Makefiles Processing & p5.js WebGL & three.js HuggingFace & Gradio Foundation.app, NiftyGateway & OpenSea Smart contracts NFTs (non-fungible tokens) Ethereum & Solana Artblocks SHA256 hash generator Pix2Pix, StyleGAN & Pixel2Style2Pixel Machine-learning based sketch vectorization Suggestive Drawing iA Writer, Dropbox Paper & Notion Figma People mentioned Refik Anadol Tyler Hobbs Craig Mod Matt DesLauriers Seth Godin Lex Fridman Anthony Pompliano Zach Lieberman Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 00:57 · NFTs 02:55 · Established creators 06:27 · Early adopters 07:50 · Ownership 10:04 · Royalties and smart contracts 13:55 · Generative art 19:39 · Mechanics of crypto art 29:07 · Digital artists vs speculators 30:53 · Attention is power 34:48 · Supporting artists and platform lockdown 47:48 · Laser eyes 48:59 · DAOs 52:17 · Machine learning and artificial intelligence 59:30 · Generative networks 01:01:33 · Making machine learning accessible 01:10:03 · The fast pace of AI 01:21:32 · AI-based audio and video editing 01:27:43 · Subscriptions 01:37:50 · Advice for beginners 01:39:21 · Wrap up 01:41:20 · Outro Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

A conversation with an anonymous guest on how new technologies can help promote positive moral behavior, blockchain and crypto concepts, digital art and NFTs, the convenience of centralization, online identity, impostor syndrome, the ever-newbie, and lots more. Favorite quotes “Writing code is talking to computers, but you also have to talk to people through your code.” “How do we figure out, in a digital age, what is good and what should we aim for as a civilization, as a society?” “Information is the resolution of uncertainty.” —Claude Shannon, 1948 Books Collected Papers from Claude E. Shannon The Information by James Gleick Permanent Record by Edward Snowden Links & Terms DeFi (decentralized finance) Web3 Escrow smart contracts InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) Candy Machine Arweave permanent storage Genesis Go JavaScript, Rust & C++ Pair programming Nifty Gateway & Foundation.app MetaMask & Exodus (wallets) Coinbase, Kraken & Gemini (exchanges) BIP39 (Bitcoin Improvement Protocol) Curiosity Stream - “YouTube for nerds” The Coding Train with Daniel Shiffman Ruby on Rails Keras & TensorFlow PlayXO.com SushiSwap, PancakeSwap & Abracadabra Glitch Ruby on Rails Anchor for Solana Learning resources How to Mint an NFT on Solana Using Candy Machine Solana tutorials by Henry-E Solana tutorials by Doug Anderson Solana development guide with React, Anchor, Rust & Phantom by Nadir Dabit Ethereum & Solana tutorials by Brian Friel A normal person explains cryptocurrency Starting with Solana, Part 1 Starting with Solana, Part 4 - A Todo List with Rewards People mentioned Henry-E Brian Friel Nadir Dabit Doug Anderson Mr. Beast Mark Zuckerberg Satoshi Nakamoto Edward Snowden Richard Feynman Aaron Schwartz Kevin Kelly Daniel Shiffman Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 00:15 · Motivation 02:03 · Collaborative AI Sketching 05:02 · Blockchain and NFTs 09:07 · Promoting positive moral behavior 10:20 · Smart contracts 12:41 · The simplest smart contract 14:37 · NFTs 20:11 · Programming smart contracts 22:58 · Art 25:24 · Crypto wallets and passphrases 29:16 · Information 31:25 · Security 35:43 · Web3 39:24 · The convenience of centralization 44:02 · A definition of Web3 45:05 · Learning resources 46:39 · Anonymity 49:48 · Zuckerberg or Nakamoto? 54:08 · What would a good person do? 56:13 · Sharing your life online 58:10 · Hijacking the hijacking of your brain 01:00:41 · Pair programming 01:02:55 · Coding for yourself or others 01:06:54 · Impostor syndrome 01:10:15 · The constant newbie 01:10:58 · Content discoverability 01:12:31 · Outro Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Jordan Gray on creative friction, the fine line between passion projects and work, storytelling in design, and overcoming the beginner feeling. Jordan Gray works as a Visualization Specialist at Hanbury. Architecture and design always have a narrative—an evocative, deeper meaning. From napkin sketches, to drawing sets, to post-construction marketing, each medium for client communication is key to architectural storytelling. I've always had a passion for the visualization toolset, recognizing how renderings, photography, and filmmaking go hand-in-hand with the design process. It's my proverb to practice openness to new methods when there's a better way. Always explore; always collaborate. Links Gray Collab - Jordan's renderings, photography, and film. Started while freelancing. Jordan on Vimeo Carolina Day School — Asheville, NC by Jordan Gray Kappa Achievement Park: A Place to Belong by Jordan Gray Hanbury Unreal Engine Lumion & VRay Rhino & Grasshopper 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) & Revit Google Books Ngram Viewer Austin Kleon: Pencil vs. Computer on Hurry Slowly Books Less But Better by Dieter Rams Faculty Department Volume 1 by Justin Chung The Photography Storytelling Workshop by Finn Beales So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport You Can't Make This Stuff Up by Lee Gutkind 168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam People mentioned Steve Martin Tim Ferris David Allen Cal Newport Jocelyn K. Glei Austin Kleon Dieter Rams Chapters 00:00 · Intro 01:25 · Photography 02:54 · Lack of time 06:42 · Deliberate practice 11:42 · Skill transferability 18:21 · Maintaining growth and creativity 32:13 · Friction 35:19 · Passion & work 38:43 · Gratification, fulfillment, and satisfaction 44:27 · Storytelling 48:17 · The human experience 51:58 · Deep rebranding 58:34 · Making people feel something 01:00:59 · Personal branding 01:03:23 · Making others seek you out 01:05:45 · The podium 01:09:14 · The chaos of taking pictures 01:13:20 · Overthinking and overdoing 01:14:34 · Will people notice the details? 01:17:23 · Capturing creative moments 01:21:03 · Daily routines to be happier and productive 01:22:45 · Books 01:24:59 · A message to the world 01:27:05 · Enjoying the process of grinding the beans 01:34:39 · Designing versus clicking 01:37:08 · Simplicity 01:42:15 · Learnings on simplicity from making this podcast? 01:46:28 · Connect with Jordan 01:50:53 · Outro Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Podcasting, live streaming, sketching, and writing highlights of 2021, and why you should start writing in public. 2020 has been an incredible year in many ways. Yet I didn't expect COVID to be as present in 2021 as it was in 2020, honestly. Wherever you are, I hope that you're staying safe and healthy and can be, at least, in contact with your close friends, even if you can not spend time with them in person. Join me as I revisit my achievements in podcasting, live streaming, sketching, and writing over the past year. Happy new year! Links Freediving podcast Freediving posts: First Impressions, How to prevent your diving mask from fogging up,  Otovent & The Diving Reflex Luis Ruiz interview on video · Huge thanks to Daniel Natoli from Peripheria Films for making this possible. Live stream playlist Bytes series - StyleGAN, NFTs & Digital Art, and The Black Box Machine learning networks - Pix2Pix, StyleGAN & Pixel2Style2Pixel On writing: One Word per Day, 600 days of practice, Why should you write?, Are you writing enough?, and the Writing habits podcast episode Nono's Substack Most-visited stories of 2021 Books So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport Deep Work by Cal Newport Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport Originals by Adam Grant People mentioned Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Daniel Natoli · Peripheria Films Aziz Barbar Adam Menges Andrew Witt James Melouney & Selene Urban Mike Gabour Luis Ruiz Padrón Héctor Ruiz Cristóbal Valenzuela Nate Peters JR from Insisting Simplicity Leo Cremonezi Jordan Gray Kevin Kelly · Books Tim Ferriss · Books Cal Newport · Books Adam Grant · Books Seth Godin · Books Chapters 00:00 · Intro 00:15 · Start 00:41 · Achievements 01:07 · Live stream 02:55 · Podcast 03:18 · First full video interview 04:25 · Bytes 05:05 · Freediving 05:53 · Building a recording studio 08:13 · You should write a blog, in public 11:39 · Removing creative friction 12:40 · Most-visited stories of 2021 15:26 · I would love to hear from you 15:44 · 2022 18:19 · Outro 19:23 · Thanks Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Aziz Barbar on how complex machines work, technological polarization, and the growing need to make algorithms understandable. Nono hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence. Aziz is an architect and design technologist. He occasionally teaches design courses on computation and the built environment. Favorite quotes "Do we have a backup plan? Very few of us know, we're just blindly trusting these black boxes." "We're going to have to find ways - we as in the people making the algorithms and people who are technical - to explain how these programs are making decisions for them." Links Pascaline (Pascal's calculator) Open Source Software Python (programming language) C# (programming language) People mentioned Lex Fridman Travis Oliphant Chapters 00:00 · Intro 00:22 · What's the machine doing? 01:21 · Visible mechanisms and the Pascaline 02:49 · Obscuring how mechanisms work 05:02 · Open Source Software 06:13 · Computers excel at complex and repetitive tasks 07:07 · Who's making the background algorithms we use daily? 08:51 · What does 'black boxing' mean? 10:03 · Two types of black box 10:37 · Machine learning and explainability 11:33 · Polarization and a growing need to make algorithms understandable Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Jose Luis Garcia Del Castillo on teaching and coding live. Nono Martínez Alonso hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence. Jose Luis García del Castillo y López is an architect, educator, and Doctor of Design in Technology by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches Computational Design. He runs a weekly Computational Design Live Stream at ParametricCamp. Links Nono.MA Live YouTube Playlist ParametricCamp Previous episodes with Jose Luis: ALGO Lessons from Teaching, Live Streaming, Publishing, and 3 Years of Podcasting, Will Robots Simplify Your Life? & Freediving C-Sharp VVVV Grasshopper 3D Processing p5.js The Coding Train Visual Studio Code JSON Camtasia OBS People mentioned Refik Anadol Daniel Shiffman Cal Newport Lex Fridman Victor Lin Robb Beal Mahmoud Randane Mahmoud Ala Saurabh Mhatre Chapters 00:00 · Intro 00:34 · Start 03:15 · How have the podcast and live stream evolved? 05:31 · Automation, delegation, and friction 08:00 · Teaching complex topics 10:21 · Can you be flexible with the topics you cover? 16:47 · Community 23:56 · Live podcast format 26:56 · Video editing 31:56 · Practice 33:25 · Content creation 36:09 · You should not make that video 39:47 · Connect with Nono and Jose Luis Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Host Nono Martínez Alonso replies to audience questions on the evolution of the live stream after a year of weekly streams. Books Atomic Habits by James Clear Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport Deep Work by Cal Newport Links Nono.MA Live Playlist Suggestive Drawing (and an in-depth tech dive) CATIA, Digital Project and Gehry Technologies Harvard GSD Parametric modeling People mentioned Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Panagiotis Michalatos Carmen Chamorro Adam Menges Cal Newport Special thanks Bittor Arrillaga Jean-Marc Couffin Juanda Cabrera Mayur Mistry Ricardo César Rodríguez Robb Beal Sujay Kumarji Theaveas So Outline [00:00] Intro. [01:44] Start. [03:20] How has the channel evolved since the first live stream? [07:50] What challenges have you faced coding live? [11:39] How many programming languages are you familiar with? [14:50] Have you considered doing tutorials for beginners? [15:48] Do you have any tips on time management? [18:20] Who got you into coding for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC)? [21:36] Coding for AEC is not mainstream in China or India. [22:10] Are community-based learning and tutorials the future of learning? [23:57] Should I get a master's degree in machine learning? [24:50] What's your take on work-life balance? [28:09] How can I acquire solid math knowledge? [29:08] Existing YouTube Videos. [32:07] Outro. Videos mentioned Live 38 · Dimensionality reduction with sci-kit learn and t-SNE Live 35 · RSS feed parsing Live 19 · DigitalOcean basics Live 18 · Hallucinating Sketches with StyleGAN Live 17 · Runway ML and StyleGAN Live 16 · Runway ML and Pix2Pix Live 15 · Runway ML models Live 11 · ResNet 50 and TensorFlow Hub Live 09 · Electron, React & TypeScript Live 08 · SageMaker training Live 07 · Training an image classifier: Part 2 Live 06 · Training an image classifier: Part 1 (Fashion MNIST)- Live 04 · Lobe AI and TensorFlow Lite (TFLite) Google Colab Jupyter notebooks Python Playlist Programming languages PHP Objective-C Python C# (C-sharp) Grasshopper Golang Perl Processing Libraries esbuild create-serve perfect-freehand Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Aziz Barbar on non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and digital art. Listen to this episode to learn about non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Note that cryptocurrencies and stock options are highly volatile markets, and you shouldn't make financial decisions based on this episode. Nono hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence. Aziz is an architect and design technologist. He occasionally teaches design courses on computation and the built environment. Favorite quotes 'Beeple is looking at his whole body of work as it's presented on Instagram as a kind of Duchampian readymade' —Noah Davis Links Beeple (@beeple_crap) Christie's Foundation.app - “We're bringing digital creators, crypto natives, and collectors together to move culture forward." R//Motherboard by @maxwellstep Nifty Gateway - Owned by Gemini (Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss) Ethereum “Minting” and “Gas” “Drops” MetaMask Metapurse WalletConnect Beeple: A Visionary Digital Artist at the Forefront of NFTs Jack Dorsey sells his first tweet ever as an NFT for over $2.9 million Vignesh Sundaresan, known as MetaKovan, on paying $69 million for Beeple NFT Cardano Zcash People mentioned Mike Winkelmann @beeple_crap Vignesh Sundaresan @MetaKovan Vitalik Buterin Outline Getting familiar with NFTs. [01:55] The cultural significance of NFTs. [05:22] The $69 million dollar auction that exploded the NFT world. [08:35] NFTs allow for a much clearer history of ownership. [11:44] There are thousands of cryptocurrencies that operate in different ways. [13:54] NFTs are created inside the Ethereum chain. [14:44] Privacy in the blockchain. [16:34] Minting an artwork costs money. [18:23] The environmental impact of crypto transactions. [21:05] Artists make limited drops to build hype around their work. [22:22] Moving from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake. [23:42] Have you bought an NFT yet? [26:02] You're not going to create value out of thin air. [28:04] Wrapping up. [29:41] Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. The cover image is a derivative from Imaginibus' picture of a museum frame. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Nate Peters on the machine learning-based audio-editing solution this podcast is being produced with, web components, React and UI libraries, the effects of COVID-19 in our work lives, NFTs and cryptocurrencies, and the new informal catch-up conversation podcast format we're testing out. Nono hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence. Nate works as a software engineer for Autodesk. Before joining Autodesk, he earned his Master of Design Studies in Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture at Iowa State University. Links Audio Hijack and Loopback by Rogue Amoeba OBS Descript Lyrebird Deepfakes GPT-3 Adobe Audition p5.js perfect-freehand by Steve Ruiz TypeScript Yjs, y-websocket & y-webrtc CRDT WebSocket WebRTC DigitalOcean Figma SVG Next.js Leva Perlin noise G-Code Pen plotter React React Hooks React Router React Three Fiber Three.js dat.gui How Figma's multiplayer technology works Material UI Grommet SCSS Lex Fridman podcast Travis Oliphant on Lex Fridman NumPy & SciPy zk-SNARKs Zero Knowledge Proof Foundation.app People mentioned Aziz Barbar Lex Fridman Nate Peters Travis Oliphant Steve Ruiz Outline Intro. [00:00] Announcements. [00:33] Start. [01:22] Descript: Machine-learning-based audio editing. [03:53] Studio Sound. [09:40] What's that little UI library? [11:37] CRDT, Yjs, WebSocket, and WebRTC. [13:41] React hooks. [19:40] UI libraries. [21:39] Technical conversations. [23:48] COVID-19. [25:44] Podcast format. [28:11] NFTs and cryptocurrencies. [28:41] Outro. [29:53] Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Reclaiming time to be human. Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme and exit songs, Sleep and A Loop to Kill For, by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Aziz Barbar on StyleGAN, NVIDIA's state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm that generates convincing images. Listen to this episode to learn about StyleGAN. Nono Martínez Alonso hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence. Aziz Barbar is an architect and design technologist. He occasionally teaches design courses on computation and the built environment. Favorite quotes "Do we learn less because we can skip certain steps?" "Do we skip the process of hiring a designer if we have a computer algorithm that can generate those paintings for us?" "StyleGAN is an algorithm open-sourced by NVIDIA - that's the company that creates the graphic cards - that can learn from the features or style of a bunch of images and generate synthetic (or fake) images that resemble the original ones." Links StyleGAN Pix2Pix Generative adversarial network Machine learning Image classification Latent space People mentioned Ian Goodfellow Phillip Isola Outline Intro. [0:00] What is StyleGAN? [0:28] Adversarial networks. [1:39] Unexpectedness. [4:03] Does it know what it's drawing? [5:44] Latent space. [7:37] Hallucinations. [8:42] Creative block. [9:37] Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. The cover image is a derivative from NVIDIA's RTX 2080 graphics card. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Jose Luis García del Castillo on the mindfulness of breath-hold diving and being deep underwater, best practices, equipment, and techniques, equalizing your middle ear pressure, scuba versus freediving, and recommendation systems. Before parting ways at the boarding gate, Jose Luis and I captured our first impressions after a week of freediving classes; what we learned, what we loved, and things we thought we knew but didn't. Big thanks to Paco González Castro, Biaggio Alessandro Picardi, Fernando, and Georgia for an unforgettable week. Nono Martínez Alonso hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence. Jose Luis García del Castillo y López is an architect, educator, and Doctor of Design in Technology by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches Computational Design. He runs a weekly Computational Design Live Stream at ParametricCamp. Links Apnea Academy West Europe Freediving Freediving lead weights Freediving mask Tenerife Otovent Nono's freediving first impressions How to prevent your diving mask from fogging up @deivid.af Spearfishing Outline Intro. [0:00] Freediving is a sport. [1:48] Benefits of putting safety and technique first. [3:52] Equalizing. [5:52] Scuba vs Freediving. [7:55] Otovent. [8:42] Shout outs. [11:24] Exercises. [12:03] Being deep underwater. [14:03] Equipment. [18:40] How did we end up here? [21:57] Wrapping up. [24:15] Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Runway's co-founder Cristóbal Valenzuela on the need for new creative interfaces to control complex algorithms that focus on results (not technology), the freedom of being a startup, and how machine intelligence is changing how we think, design, and make art. Cristóbal Valenzuela is a technologist, artist and software developer interested in the intersection between artificial intelligence and creative tools. He is Runway's co-founder. Previously, he co-founded Latent Studio, a creative studio specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He also contributes to OSS and helps maintain ml5.js. His work has been sponsored by Google and the Processing Foundation and his projects has been exhibited in Latin America and the US, including NeurIPS, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, ARS Electronica, GAM, ACADIA, Fundación Telefonica, Lollapalooza, NYC Media Lab, New Latin Wave, DOCLAB, Inter-American Development Bank, Stanford University and New York University. Connect with Cristóbal on his website, Twitter (@c_valenzuelab), or GitHub (@cvalenzuela). Favorite quotes "You don't care about the mathematical function that goes behind blurring [an image in Photoshop]. You just want the output of it—the creative output of moving a slider and having an effect applied to your video, your pixels, or content." "When you think about using algorithms to help you and assist you in the editing process, you need [to find] a metaphor or tool that would allow you to collaborate with those algorithms." "We need those new interfaces, metaphors, and systems. And that's all we're building, basically, those next-generation systems to help people create video and content." "When you take that picture, no one is saying, 'Oh, the AI is biased' or 'The AI worked or didn't work' or 'It showed me new creative possibilities.' It just works." "[Artificial intelligence] is a tool as any other tool. And so, in general, I think all the art tools that we're making will eventually reach that point where you're not too concerned about the systems you're using. You are just using it as a tool. And if it provides you with good results to explore the creative direction, you're going to use it again." Links NYU ITP Runway ML Made with Runway Runway's Generative Media Runway's Green Screen Making albums with AI from our backyard: Claire Evans, Jona Bechtolt, and Rob Kieswetter of YACHT Machine learning (concept) StyleGAN (machine learning algorithm) Building accessible tools for artists by Cris (article) Descript People mentioned Alejandro Matamala Ortiz Anastasis Germanidis Mario Klingemann Outline Intro. [0:00] What's new with Runway ML? [0:28] We need new interfaces. [1:44] The freedom of being a startup. [4:23] How's life? [4:55] Built with Runway. [5:38] ML Lab and Sequel. [6:55] Interfaces to control ML algorithms. [8:08] Machine intelligence in design, art, and architecture. [10:31] Creativity. [13:14] Originality and bias. [14:23] AI as a tool. [16:06] Thanks. [18:13] Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Illusionist Héctor Ruiz on getting started and standing out as a magician, how COVID-19 changed his world, his take on talent, effort, creativity, success, and entrepreneurship, and more. Héctor Ruiz is an illusionist from Spain that performs over the planet with his show amazing and amusing audiences. In the last years, Hector has performed at some of the most important TV shows in his field at the largest cruise ships in the world and has toured with big international magic productions. He is looking forward to having you in the audience to show you his unique touch to the art of illusion. Favorite quotes "I'm still that kid being entertained, watching magic videos and stuff I have never stopped being that kid. And I think it's going to work as long as I remain being that kid." "[When] I went from Isla Mágica to cruise ships, I got bankrupt. I went into the biggest hole of my life, and that was the best thing that could ever happen to me." "For the past 20 plus years, I've never been without performing for more than a couple of weeks and suddenly, I encountered myself being offstage for over a year, which is crazy!" Links Hector Ruiz Show Hector's shop Instagram Pajaro Flama Mr Hocus cool stuff for magic lovers by Hector Isla Mágica The Illusionists Live From Broadway Chinese Linking Rings Outline Intro. [0:00] How did you get started with magic? [0:59] How did you become a professional magician? [2:21] What was your show like at Isla Mágica? [3:50] What unique about theme park shows? [5:05] How has your show's length changed over time? [5:54] How do you learn magic? [6:40] What kind of shows were you doing outside of Isla Mágica? [7:54] How do you stand out as a magician? [9:52] Does the community have a system for tracking who owns which tricks? [11:45] Do you have a mission you have set for yourself/your act? [13:26] What was your lifestyle like before COVID? [14:47] Society doesn't understand entertainers. [21:34] What do you think your talent is? [22:32] What things require an effort from you? [25:02] How was it to learn more languages? [26:53] How do you understand creativity? [28:22] What would be the easiest way to see one of your shows? [33:02] How has COVID-19 changed things for you? [33:37] How many planes did you used to get regularly? [35:29] What's going to be different now? [36:36] Where can people find you online? [38:29] What did you do in the year you couldn't do shows? [39:07] Can you tell us about the business you started during the pandemic? [41:01] How did your day to day look like before COVID? [43:01] How do you disconnect? [44:07] Is there anything specific about how you manage your time? [45:16] Do you do any type of meditation? [47:03] Do you think solitude plays an important part in your life? [47:46] Being online can have a negative impact on productivity. [49:33] How would you define success? [50:25] Who do you see as successful? [51:05] Has any recent purchase under $100 had a positive impact in your life? [52:36] What books do you recommend to people who want to get into magic? [52:58] What do you think of guessing/explaining the tricks? [54:12] Can we see you perform a card trick? [54:48] Do you have any other message for the audience? [56:18] Closing thoughts. [58:47] Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Aziz Barbar introduce the Bytes series—concepts at the intersection of digital technology and culture in a language we can all understand—and talk about cloud storage. Listen to this episode to learn more about the series, its name and format, co-host Aziz Barbar, and what's coming. Nono hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence. Aziz is an architect and design technologist. He occasionally teaches design courses on computation and the built environment. Links GPG encryption Dropbox Paper M1 Macbook Pro StyleGAN Pix2Pix Outline Start. [0:00] Intro. [0:46] Format. [1:44] Name. [2:35] Topics. [3:01] Enter Aziz Barbar. [3:49] Saving the files you print. [5:06] Digital storage. [5:59] Future topics. [8:37] Outro. [11:33] Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. The cover image is a derivative from the photo Internals of a 2.5-inch laptop hard disk drive by Evan-Amos. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Luis Ruiz Padrón on the creative process behind his sketches, writing, and publications, seeing the world as an Urban Sketcher, identity, teaching, technology, life, success, and more. Luis Ruiz Padrón is a PhD architect. He teaches Architectural Graphic Expression at the University of Málaga; drawings of cityscapes is his main interest as a scholar but also his first source of pleasure, sketching them himself. He belongs to the Urban Sketchers global community and is the founder of the local group in his city. He collaborates weekly as a columnist in newspapers and is the author of several books. Favorite quotes "Non-linear is a [good word to describe the creative] process. John Berger wrote that It's like digging a tunnel in search of light, you don't know how [the work] is going to turn out at the end, but you go forth. It's like a struggle." "Nuccio Ordine wrote The Usefulness of The Useless. You have a background with images and textures that apparently are not related to each other, but suddenly there's a spark and you connect things." "If you see the tiny dot we are in the middle of the universe, it makes you feel more relaxed about what you do and who you are." "We are a social animal. It's incredible when you perceive a smile directed at you by, perhaps, someone at a store or something. It can change your whole afternoon." "Trust your eyes and not what you have in mind. Be free. [Have a clean] look into things so that they don't condition your sight, your perception of things." "The possibility of being in contact with someone on the other side of the world, just in this exact moment, is a miracle." "Hunting is [having] a plan to discover things. I prefer fishing, [where] you just throw the net [and] something will come up. I think [this is how] I do things." "When you sketch you understand what other sketchers did. […] What decisions they made, where they cheated. But they cheated to tell the truth. It's [a] contradiction. Sometimes you have to [cheat] to be honest." Books Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The Usefulness of The Useless by Nuccio Ordine Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Links LuisRuiz.es Diario SUR and La Opinión publications by Luis Drawings and books by Luis Castillo de Gibralfaro, Málaga Loving Books Urban Sketchers Sketchbook tools Stillman & Birn Alpha Series sketchbook Sakura Micron Pigma pens White Nights watercolors Talens sketchbooks Hahnemühle sketchbooks Concertina accordion sketchbook People mentioned Daniel Natoli Panagiotis Michalatos Gabi Campanario (books) Gerard Michel Florian Afflerbach (books) Cristina Urdiales Alejandro Villén and Maria Corredera Rafael Alberti Leonardo da Vinci Albrecht Dürer Bob Dylan John Berger Stephen Jay Gould Daniel Kahneman (books) Yuval Noah Harari (books) Seth Godin (books) Chapters Intro [0:00] Identity [0:25] Sketching [16:08] Writing and publishing [37:37] Teaching [58:50] Technology [1:02:20] Life and death [1:04:56] Tools [1:13:57] What's next? [1:16:42] Evolution [1:19:00] Outline What do you try to convey with your work? [0:25] Writing by hands compared to typing. [1:54] The process is non-linear. [4:21] It's a blank space. [5:32] How do you manage to stay happy knowing you may not be progressing in some areas? [7:26] How do you define where being a writer, sketcher, and teacher draw their lines? [8:20] Do you seek out other experiences you can relate your field to? [11:18] What's is one of the projects you have enjoyed the most? [11:53] Did you ever imagine you would ever be where you are in architecture? [13:27] How do you define yourself? [14:24] How did you start sketching and what is Urban Sketchers? [16:08] How did you get introduced to Urban Sketchers? [17:55] What is the importance of sketching in the actual place? [20:25] What do you do differently sketching at home versus sketching on the street? [22:01] When did you start drawing and when did you start sketching? [23:48] Why is it important to carry a sketchbook with you? [27:33] Can you comment on what it was like to start and how it felt the first time you went out sketching? [29:47] Where was the first place that you went sketching? [30:59] Do you have somewhere you would like to go sketching if you could? [31:23] Who has been somebody you consider influential on the way you sketch? [32:03] Are there any other people that left a mark on you? [33:28] Would you highlight one aspect of sketching you really enjoy? [34:18] Does the sketchbook help you understand things about the city? [34:46] How do deadlines change your creative process? [37:37] Can you talk about your writing process? [41:14] We tend to repeat the same things. [45:31] How did you publish your first book? [47:57] How does exhibiting your work feel? [50:04] What work of yours do you think of as most successful? [53:18] How does it feel to have a new website? [54:13] What changed after you were able to publish online? [55:03] How would you summarize yourself? [57:22] Where else can you be found? [58:14] Why did you start teaching? [58:50] What are the hardest things your students have to learn? [1:00:07] What advice would you get people trying to learn? [1:00:48] How does being online transform your work? [1:02:20] What is your relationship with digital technology? [1:03:30] What piece of software makes your life easier? [1:04:14] If you could send a message to the world what would it be? [1:04:56] Is there anything that makes it easier to do your creative work now that you didn't have before? [1:06:14] What would you do if you didn't really need money? [1:06:37] What would you stop doing if you had the money? [1:06:53] Are you comfortable with solitude and boredom? [1:07:30] Is there any time that you think about death? [1:07:56] How does thinking about these things inform what you do? [1:08:20] What do you think distracts you? [1:08:59] What do you do to disconnect? [1:09:52] What role does the city play in your daily routine? [1:10:29] Is there any routine you have for note-taking? [1:11:56] How do you define success? [1:13:23] What's your go-to gear for sketching today? [1:13:57] Sketchbook brands. [1:14:38] Pens and brush brands. [1:15:29] Do you write by hand? [1:16:02] What's next for you? [1:16:42] What was your thesis? [1:17:28] How does an architect like you evolve into doing something more interesting and enriching? [1:19:00] Submit a question. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

A practice to focus by listening to the same songs, over and over again. Outline The compact disc and streaming services. [0:00] The walkman and repeat mode. [0:56] Looping playlists, the practice - Looping playlists, the practice [2:51] Repeat one. [8:09] My playlists. [9:38] Focus Zero. [10:35] Focus A. [11:07] Focus B. [12:14] I'd love to hear from you. [13:56] Submit a question. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Techniques, challenges, and reasons to live as if you were retired. Outline Intro. [0:00] Marc's question. [0:28] What are mini-retirements? [1:12] Challenges. [3:56] Vacation slack. [7:04] How much money do you need? [8:38] Financial independence. [10:17] Creating your own products. [11:42] Passive income, freelance, and full-time - Passive income, freelance, and full-time [12:54] Money is time. [14:02] Safety. [16:08] Enjoy everyday. [17:39] Pause. [19:09] Living as if you were retired. [20:30] Do you need a mini-retirement? [21:31] I'd love to hear from you. [22:13] Submit a question. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

James Melouney & Selene Urban on how to get started with meditation, self-discovery, building trust and connection with your audience through a humane and authentic message, and key learnings from their entrepreneurial journey. James Melouney is an eclectic mix of mathematics, finance, strategy, marketing, meditation and self-discovery. He graduated with a University Medal in Mathematics & Finance before becoming a management consultant. Though since then, James chose to follow his calling in life and authored two books: The Art of Success and Simple Living (March 30, 2021 release). James dedicates himself to living honestly and authentically. To rise above fear so that he can live out his life purpose. He believes our ultimate aim is to become the unique expression of who we truly are. Selene Urban always felt naturally pulled to connecting to her inner world. From her name meaning “Moon Goddess,” to deeply experiencing what she is and how we journey through life & relationships, to exploring her physical body through dance and yoga. Acknowledging how precious life truly is, she facilitates yoga trainings, retreats and holds space for women and men ready to meet themselves with grace, intimacy and realness. Favorite quotes "Even if I'm really excited about a project. I need to just let it sit for a little bit, maybe a day or two. And then I decide if I want to go into it. And that's an example of slowing down. You can do far less, but you're doing the right things. So the outcomes are there, you've got more time, you've got less stress. I think it's beautiful." —James Melouney "Whatever you're going through right now, it truly has a reason for a bigger mission that you have in this life. And no matter how hard it is, keep trusting in that calling that is right in your heart center." —Selene Urban Books Simple Living: Love Your Life by James Melouney The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles by Marianne Williamson Deepest Acceptance: Radical Awakening in Ordinary Life by Jeff Foster The Wonder of Being: Awakening to an Intimacy Beyond Words by Jeff Foster Meditation and yoga Vipassana meditation uses sati (mindfulness) and samatha (calm) Ayurveda is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent Pranayama is the practice of breath control in yoga Sankrist is a classical language of South Asia A yogi is a practitioner of yoga Yoga Enlightenment is the "full comprehension of a situation" Sama vritti (equal breathing) is a yoga technique proven to help lower stress and increase calm Marketing and automation Zapier Buffer Hootsuite MailChimp AWeber ClickFunnels Namecheap WordPress Divi WordPress theme Thinkific People mentioned Peter Burkhardt Eckhart Tolle Marianne Williamson Jeff Foster Outline Intro. [0:00] How James and Selene crossed paths. [4:26] Meditation and Spirituality. [13:06] Meditation workshops. [15:10] Why do people meditate? [18:24] Steps to meditation. [19:17] Am I doing it right? [19:57] What is vipassana? [22:36] The vipassana practice. [23:08] Practice vs. Spirituality. [25:50] Enlightenment. [28:27] The fear of meditation. [34:13] How to get started with meditation. [36:48] How can you meditate when you're by yourself? [38:36] Same-length breath meditation: Sama Vritti. [39:20] How is it to have learned this and communicate it to others? [40:18] How do people find you? Connection, marketing, and advertising. How do people find you? Connection, marketing, and advertising. [41:21] How to make a message more humane and personal? [44:39] Connecting to your audience. [46:30] On building a mailing list and authenticity. [47:50] Struggles of having your own business. [52:07] Techniques, products, and services - Techniques, products, and services [55:36] Would you like to continue doing this your whole life? [58:19] What would you do differently with a 10-20 people team? [59:31] What's the format of your gatherings? [1:00:53] How do you build trust? [1:03:17] Routines and habits. [1:04:49] Is your life simple? [1:07:33] When do you meditate? [1:09:37] Do you exercise? [1:10:41] Non-work activities. [1:12:26] What media do you consume? [1:13:03] Social media. [1:13:26] Learning from other people's ads. [1:14:22] Automation tools. [1:15:09] Distractions. [1:16:10] When do you get your best ideas? [1:16:55] How do you disconnect? [1:17:22] How do you deal with boredom? [1:18:20] How would you define success? [1:19:15] Is there anything you say to yourself in the morning? [1:19:39] Who comes to mind when you think of a successful person? [1:20:29] How do you handle seeing other people succeed ahead of you? [1:22:06] A message to the world. [1:23:53] What would you tell your 20-year-old-self? [1:24:39] Are you paranoid about anything? [1:25:20] Who do you like to follow? [1:26:37] What's the other book about? [1:28:23] What do you think of slowing down in life? [1:29:04] What's next for you? [1:30:23] Is there something you want to ask me? [1:30:59] Where are you simplifying and slowing down in your life? [1:31:26] What have been the most challenging and most fulfilling experiences with making Getting Simple? [1:34:27] Thanks. [1:36:22] Outro. [1:36:51] Bonus: Simple Breathing with Selene. [1:37:42] Ask a question and I'll try to answer it in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join us on Discord and introduce yourself to the community. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. 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Strategist, investor, community builder, and NGO founder Mike Gabour on mindfulness and attention, meditation and dark showers, the multiplier effect, minimizing time in front of the screen, the contents of his backpack, and falling in love with the ocean. Mike Gabour is a first generation immigrant, born on the Mediterranean ocean in Alexandria, Egypt. He is Co-founder and Managing Director for Koinonia, a micro-lending organization which empowers marginalized entrepreneurs in Egypt. Leadership Workshop Facilitator for The Littlest Lamb, an orphanage in Cairo which nurtures underprivileged children. Co-founder of Pequod, an app built with blind sailors for all sailors. Supporting blind sailors ability to autonomously navigate the water, and help the rest of us keep their eyes on the water, and ears on Pequod! Co-founder of the WAVE (Wider Access Virtual Expeditions) project, partnering with Harvard Deep-sea ocean exploration dept. and the Nautilus, a deep sea submarine. Co-inventor of Nezso, a fully immersive ambisonics music pod. Mike is an avid sailor, free-diver, and oceanographic explorer. Favorite quotes "Attention is love." "It's impossible not to fall in love with someone after you've heard their story." "Always be prepared." "You have your normal, I have mine." "Traveling for me is more about understanding and experiencing other cultures than my own personal enjoyment." "Do everything I tell you while we're on the water, but ignore everything I say when we are in land." Links Planet Earth Wave Collaborative Accenture Mindfulness The Sensorium A Physical Paradigm for Bidirectional Brain-Computer Interfaces, Sam Hincks' dissertation on brain-computer interfaces The multiplier effect The Littlest Lamb orphanage started by Mira Riad, run by Mira + Marina Rina Koinonia Ventures, micro-lending NGO Girguis labs, Harvard Maglev (magnetic levitation) Books The Tao of Pooh The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever by Rick Page Principles by Rei Dalio The Four-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness by John Yates, Matthew Immergut & Jeremy Graves Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness by Dr Qing Li Life of Pi by Yann Martel Contents of Mike's backpack Portable battery Liquid Bandaid Kaufman Layer (a concept invented by the great Jonathan Kaufman, a final layer of clothing that is not meant to be worn, having it is knowing you can be warmer) Merino Wool Buff Leatherman - multi-tool with screwdriver, scissors, wire cutters, etc. Headlamp (with redlight) Grave Before Shave "Gentlemen's Blend" Beard Oil Backpack waterproof cover Flask Collapsible metal cup Car and wall phone charger Vibes Hi-Fi earplugs Inflatable camping pillow Mindfold mask Card deck Snacks and granola bars Home-made hand sanitizer with boiled water, tea tree oil, and peppermint and citrus scent Dude flushable wipes Tea tree oil toothpicks Pair of sunglasses Water bottle Moleskine A6 dot-style notebook MUJI pen 0.5 Tile locator device Podcasts RadioLab This American Life Surprisingly Awesome Where Should We Begin? by Esther Perel People mentioned Peter R. Girguis David Bangsberg Naomi Hashimoto Mr Rogers Sam Hincks (Samulus) Jeff Koons Andy Wharhol Bill Gates Arianna Huffington Ray Dalio Jacques Cousteau Bob Ballard Neil deGrasse Tyson Steve Jobs Walt Disney Oprah Winfrey Neil deGrasse Tyson Esther Perel Outline Intro. [0:00] Mike Gabour. [2:28] Your most exciting projects. [3:57] Koinonia. [5:19] Falling in love with the ocean. [13:07] Free diving. [15:41] Sailing. [17:50] Sailing challenges. [19:41] Scary moments on the ocean. [22:06] Travel. [24:38] Traveling with purpose. [25:36] Mindfulness and disconnection. [26:11] Meditation and attention. [28:54] The meditation hammock. [30:22] Dark showers. [30:57] The contents of Mike's backpack. [33:47] Mike's notebook. [40:51] The Sensorium. [44:29] The multiplier effect. [50:31] Getting Simple. [53:19] How does your day-to-day look like? [53:28] What things make your day more complex? [53:53] Daily habits. [54:23] Commute. [55:03] Exercise. [55:14] Media you consume. [55:42] Email. [56:15] Planning and focus. [56:38] Time, attention, and social media [57:14] When do you get your best ideas? [57:59] Disconnection. [58:20] Boredom. [58:38] Minimizing time in front of a screen. [59:09] Success. [1:00:12] What do you say to yourself in the morning? [1:00:33] A successful person. [1:00:38] A message to the world. [1:01:15] What will you tell your 20 or 30 year-old self? [1:01:24] How can people connect with you? [1:01:45] Book recommendations. [1:02:04] The Tao of Pooh. [1:02:10] The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams. [1:02:38] Get Real, Get Gone [1:03:00] The Four-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss. [1:03:08] The Life of Pi. [1:04:38] Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk. [1:04:48] Forest Bathing. [1:04:58] Principles by Ray Dalio. [1:05:15] Podcast recommendations. [1:05:31] Where Should We Begin? by Esther Perel. [1:05:58] The Mind Illuminated. [1:06:26] Pequod. [1:06:40] Blindfolding: Teaching People How to Sail. [1:07:22] Outro. [1:11:33] Ask a question and I'll try to answer it in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join us on Discord and introduce yourself to the community. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Harvard's Jose Luis García del Castillo and host Nono Martínez Alonso on teaching, live streaming, the guilt of postponing things, the difficulties of delegating tasks and micro-management, the fear of shipping creative work, and lessons learned after forty podcast episodes. This episode opens the ALGO series—conversations between Jose Luis García del Castillo y López and myself on teaching, machine learning, coding, and creativity. It's been three years since I last interviewed Jose Luis, and I enjoyed learning how his life changed when he became a Doctor of Design, began teaching at Harvard, and started live-streaming his lectures online. We also discuss the guilt of postponing things, the difficulties of delegating tasks and micro-management, the fear of shipping creative work, and lessons learned after forty podcast episodes. Jose Luis García del Castillo y López is an architect, educator, and Doctor of Design in Technology by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches Computational Design. He runs a weekly Computational Design Live Stream at ParametricCamp. Links ParametricCamp live streams and tutorials on YouTube and Instagram Introduction to Computational Design course Introduction to Computational Design student projects Machina.NET - A real-time robotics control open-source framework Nono's YouTube channel and Live Stream playlist Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo y López — Will Robots Simplify Your Life? (Episode 3) Nono Martínez Alonso — The Origins of Getting Simple (Episode 25) Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) The Coding Train by Daniel Shiffman Books A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Cien Años de Soledad by Gabriel García Márquez Originals by Adam Grant Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda People mentioned Ben Fry Panagiotis Michalatos Daniel Shiffman Steven Johnson Kevin Kelly Philip Glass Ray Kurzweil Seth Godin John Maeda Outline Intro. [0:00] How's your life changed after submitting your thesis? [1:38] Live streaming a Harvard course. [6:26] How did you start live streaming? [10:39] ParametricCamp is back. [11:38] The ParametricCamp community. [13:54] Why do you teach? [14:49] What's the process you follow to prepare your lectures? [16:40] Running away from too much abstraction. [17:35] How does it feel to be a YouTuber, Jose Luis? How does it feel to be a YouTuber, Jose Luis? [18:50] Tools that make teaching easier. [19:53] What would you like to do if you had the time? [21:39] Would you be able to do what you're doing in the US in Spain? [23:04] What has Nono been up to? [26:12] 'This is who we are' [29:58] After publishing, the piece is not yours anymore - After publishing, the piece is not yours anymore [31:42] Publishing fear. [33:03] I-don't-care-what-you-think gene. [33:45] What will people judge you for? [35:14] Lessons learned from 3 years of podcasting. [36:11] Forty humans that love what they do. [38:41] The things we never get around doing. [40:11] Eliminating the word 'should' [42:25] Avoiding micro-management. [45:02] How does it feel to be a YouTuber, Nono? How does it feel to be a YouTuber, Nono? [46:40] What will machine learning for creatives look like in the future? [50:05] Who would you write a book with? [53:00] The purpose of teaching. [54:50] Books. [55:51] ALGO. [56:49] Outro. [57:40] Ask a question and I'll try to answer it in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join us on Discord and introduce yourself to the community. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

During your commute, do you listen to music or podcasts? Books Deep Work (and productive meditation) by Cal Newport Links My Podcasts Not Music 2014 blog post Oak meditation and breathing app Hurry Slowly podcast by Jocelyn K. Glei Deep Questions podcast by Cal Newport People mentioned Adam Menges Cal Newport Outline Why not music, by default? [3:38] Focus and meditation. [4:20] Why listen to podcasts? [4:53] Solitude. [5:46] Meditative walks. [6:24] Once-in-a-lifetime audios. [7:16] My commute. [10:06] Remote work. [11:46] Listening together. [12:38] TL;DR. [13:23] What's your take? [13:31] Ask a question and I'll try to answer it in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join us on Discord and introduce yourself to the community. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Modelical's Roberto Molinos on the benefits of being patient and embracing uncertainty, a series of techniques, theories, and books that can help you rethink your company and market your products, and his 4-day workweek. Roberto Molinos is an architect and holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Structural Design from Madrid Tech - Madrid (ES). He has developed undergraduate and graduate research with Rafael Escolá Foundation and POLE Europe program, completing essays on the use of information technologies in multidisciplinary projects. Roberto is the Managing Director of Modelical, a technology consultancy working at the intersection of design, engineering and computation with an extensive experience in complex projects across the globe. He also leads the BuiltTech program on digital transformation for the AEC industry at IE School of Architecture and Design - Madrid and is the co-director of Algomad, a workshop that seeks to spread the use of computational tools among the Spanish-speaking community. The strong bias toward believing that small samples closely resemble the population from which they are drawn is also part of a larger story: we are prone to exaggerate the consistency and coherence of what we see. —Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow Books High Output Management by Andrew Grove Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Taleb Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How it Defines Our Lives by Eldar Shafir and Sendhil Mullainathan Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster Favorite Quotes "Your company is your first product." "[Those] who can price the products properly [are] magicians." Links Modelical DejaVu HoloBuilder StructionSite Dynamo Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Salesforce, SugarCRM, Contactually, Pipedrive (CRMs) Basecamp & 37signals Case Inc & WeWork People mentioned Cal Newport Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson (the Basecamp guys) Sarai Zabala (Modelical) Andrés De Mesa Gisbert Outline Teaser. [0:00] Intro. [2:12] Roberto Molinos. [2:29] Career contribution. [3:28] Modelical is good at selling Modelical. [5:06] Your company is your first product. [7:29] The playground. [9:51] Techniques to market and develop products. [11:58] Engaging the client late. [13:55] The importance of pricing your services. [16:15] How do sales happen? [18:18] CRMs. [21:06] Best format to distribute content and attract clients. [22:54] How do clients find you? [24:56] Missing on potential projects. [25:43] How is COVID affecting Modelical? [27:05] Promoting yourself. [28:18] Books to rethink your company. [30:30] High output management. [30:51] Don't worry about what you cannot predict. [31:32] Preparing for failure. [33:59] Save as much as possible. [36:01] A definition of antifragility. [36:49] Robustness or antifragility? [38:11] Books that influenced your decision-making process. [40:36] Consistency tradeoffs. [42:29] Consistency and automation. [44:26] Buying peace of mind. [46:17] How should we use the time we save? [50:44] Effectiveness. [52:21] The four-day workweek. [53:22] What will change after having kids? [56:23] The time blocking planning method. [57:15] Best ideas and creative moments. [59:53] More than thirty employees. [1:01:11] From 3 to 10 employees. [1:03:00] Do you consider your life simple? [1:05:12] Daily habits. [1:06:32] Work-life balance. [1:07:44] Success. [1:09:13] Role models. [1:11:42] Your message to the world. [1:17:08] What gives you goosebumps? [1:17:30] How was Modelical's first office? [1:18:35] Data-driven parenting. [1:19:34] Patience. [1:21:28] Connect with Roberto. [1:25:46] Outro. [1:25:57] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join us on Discord and introduce yourself to the community. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Celebrating a year of weekly sketches and stories. Today, I bring you an episode that celebrates a year and a half of weekly sketches and stories. At the time I published this essay on my blog, I was at fifty-three publications. But as I write these lines, I'm at seventy-one posts. Happy Newsletter-versary! Repetition, repetition, repetition. It works, it works, it works. —John Maeda Links The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda (book) My published sketches (blog) My British Museum basalt stone statue sketch and story (blog) My writing habits (podcast) Stories are the answer (podcast) Newsletterversary (post) A4-sized Moleskine watercolor sketchbook People mentioned John Maeda Lourdes Alonso Carrión Patrick Winston Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme and exit songs, Sleep and A Loop to Kill For, by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Microsoft's Adam Menges—founder at Lobe.ai and a former Apple employee—on helping people build intelligence into their apps by making it simple and understandable, his unconventional education, having death present, regret avoidance, grit, and his daily routine for note-taking, file management, meditation, and much more. Adam is a product designer, entrepreneur, and engineer located in San Francisco who specializes in Artificial Intelligence and visual programming languages. He spent time working for both Apple and SendGrid before starting his own company, Lobe, which was acquired in late 2018. Adam is continuing his work on making machine learning more accessible, and researching applications of the technology for video effects. You can contact Adam to find out more at adammenges.com, and reach out to him at adam@adammenges.com and +17204840285. Favorite quotes "You wake up in the morning, you reach over to the side of your bed, grab your laptop, and then you go until you're tired and have to go to bed." [22:40] "In order to be wildly creative, in order to increase your creative capacity, you need to be able to see the effect of what you're doing in real time." [24:31] "No one can actually context-switch, even if you think you can multitask." "[Lobe] gives you a springboard to understand what's happening behind the scenes and go for the research elsewhere." "If you are reminded five times a day that you're going to die, it makes each day much more meaningful." "All right, I'm never goin to be the smartest person in the room but I'll outwork everyone, and that'll be me." "You can do anything you set your mind to do. Don't hold yourself back." "If it becomes addictive then the technology is not invisible. It's very present." "The mission of Lobe is to make machine learning simple and understandable for those who are not machine learnists—those that don't code." Books Grit by Angela Duckworth The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler Einstein: The Life of a Genius by Walter Isaacson Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers Links AdamMenges.com SendGrid Lobe.ai SmartGeometry CSU University NVIDIA Titan X graphic card Machine learning (concept) ReLU (rectified linear unit) (concept) TensorFlow ResNet ImageNet image database Grasshopper Visual programming (concept) Hacker Paradise Mirrorless cameras Direct manipulation Bear (app) Oak for unguided meditation by Kevin Rose (app) We Croak (app) [34:05] Markdown Love Story Yoga in the mission CrossFit Widget tweet from Adam's countdown Spark AR Instagram filters Shaders (concept) All Birds Statistical death Flow Deliberate practice vvvv (visual programming language) The Future of Programming by Bret Victor (talk) Media Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott The Creative Brain (movie) Abstract: The Art of Design (documentary series) People mentioned Samantha Walker Kevin Scott, Microsoft's CTO Bill Gates Jonathan Ive Markus Beissinger Mike Matas Angela Duckworth Elon Musk Steve Jobs Lindsey Menges Bret Victor Cal Newport Outline Teaser. [0:00] Intro. [1:16] An unconventional education and avoiding context-switching. [2:15] SendGrid. [4:30] Apple. [5:38] The beginnings of Lobe. [6:26] The machine in my apartment. [7:39] A consumer tool. [9:20] The origins of Lobe. [10:13] Projects people built with Lobe. [12:17] Wind tunnel simulation. [12:32] Parents autoplaying audio books. [15:06] Tracking dolphin migration patterns. [15:53] Is Lobe a black box? [16:59] Joining Microsoft: From three remote workers to eighteen employees. [18:53] Early days of Lobe: How it was to start the company. [19:49] What do you miss? Building Lobe while traveling the world. [21:04] Visual programming and immediate feedback. [22:10] Photography. [22:47] Direct manipulation. [23:31] Adam's daily routine. [23:58] Meditation. [25:45] CrossFit and Yoga. [26:20] The goal of meditation and focus. [27:00] Distractions and notifications. [27:33] Screen time. [28:02] Death and regret avoidance. [29:31] Habits to have death present. [31:21] A death countdown. [32:51] A file system to be present. [33:36] How many days do you have left? [34:05] Calculating your statistical death. [34:20] Analog activities. [35:11] Keeping in touch online. [35:43] Grit. [37:01] The Grit Scale: Angela Duckworth's work on grit as an indicator of success. [41:09] Forgetting past fears and struggles. [45:19] Deliberate practice. [46:52] Custom-made clothing. [47:57] Connect with Adam. [51:39] Books. [52:15] Media recommendations. [52:37] A purchase of $100 or less. [53:22] Success. [53:58] Role models. [54:24] A message to the world. [54:42] A healthy relationship with technology. [54:50] Ideas: When and where do you get them? [55:38] Creativity: What makes you more creative? [55:59] Slowing down. [56:21] Simple. [56:34] Intuitive. [56:54] Your mission. [57:13] How will artificial intelligence and machine learning impact our lives? [57:24] Outro. [58:35] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Director Daniel Natoli on the making of Sisyphus, Getting Simple's first short film. A man is condemned to repeat a useless task day after day. It's easy to fall into the trap of mindlessly repeating the same routine over and over again. Every once in a while, we need to be reminded to stop and reflect; To meditate on whether what you’re doing makes sense; To find out how to get out of the loop and do what gives you joy. There’s no need to measure how productive each of your actions is—some of it should just be play. That's exactly what, as I understand, happens in the Greek myth of Sisyphus, in which a man is condemned to repeat a useless task day after day. Watch the Sisyphus short film. Daniel Natoli was born in Málaga in 1987. Traversed by his training as an architect, his cinematographic production focuses on non-fiction, documentary, and experimental formats. His works have screened at Málaga Film Festival, Seville European Film Festival, CINEMED, ALCINE, or CORTADA, among others. Currently, Dani directs the movie producer Peripheria Films, developing new film projects and distributing his latest works. Connect with Dani on Instagram at @d_natoli or @peripheriafilms or via email on natolirojo(at)gmail.com or peripheria.films(at)gmail.com. Sisyphus was directed by Daniel Natoli and produced by Nono Martínez Alonso, with the help of Marina Díaz García and Pablo de la Ossa. Links Sisyphus by Daniel Natoli Peripheria Films Málaga Film Festival Seville European Film Festival CrioCrea Movies Groundhog Day (1993) Russian Doll (2019) The Employment (2008) People mentioned Marina Díaz García Pablo de la Ossa Giovanni Battista Piranesi Giorgio de Chirico Robert Bresson Topics Intro. [0:00] Daniel Natoli. [0:46] Making of. [2:02] Idea. [2:43] Location. [3:19] References. [3:45] Film festivals. [4:24] Other projects. [5:18] How did you end up in film? [6:07] Connect with Dani. [6:59] Outro. [7:21] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

How to create good habits and break bad ones. This episode is part of the Habits series. In this excerpt from my interview with Scott Mitchell (episode 29), Scott and I discuss what atomic habits are, how to use them to create good habits and break bad ones, how I started implementing them in my daily routine more than a year ago, the difference between flow and deliberate practice, and why you should schedule your leisure time. Links Habit tracker sheets template Flow Deliberate practice How To Start New Habits That Actually Stick by James Clear Nono's sketches Interview with Scott Young Books Atomic Habits by James Clear Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport Ultralearning by Scott Young People mentioned Scott Mitchell James Clear Scott Young Cal Newport Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Anders Ericsson Topics Intro. [0:00] Atomic habits. [0:43] How to create good habits (and break bad ones). [2:59] Don't break the chain. [3:57] Meditation. [5:41] Writing. [6:08] Sketching. [6:32] Why? [6:53] Discipline, flow, and deliberate practice. [8:15] Scheduling your leisure time. [9:47] Things are not obvious. [11:15] Outro. [11:57] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme and exit songs, Sleep and A Loop to Kill For, by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Generating lots of ideas might help you achieve originality. Notes Skill and expertise let you judge your own ideas to better identify the good ones and discard the bad ones. "Many people fail to achieve originality because they generate a few ideas and then obsess about refining them to perfection." —Adam Grant, Originals Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme and exit songs, Sleep and A Loop to Kill For, by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Portfolio careerist Carmen Chamorro on the benefits of working in different fields, managing multiple interests, and how recognizing a potential Renaissance-like profile might positively influence your career. Carmen loves change and disagrees that we must define ourselves in only one single and exclusive way. She is a natural learner and can draw on a wide range of commercial, educational and voluntary experiences that allow her to connect with different clients in personalized ways. Carmen is a certified life, business and career coach that draws on two years of university study in psychology, as well as various courses in mindfulness. Currently, she also collaborates with Global Experiences, a global network providing international internships, as the Global Engagement Coordinator. She understands the challenges of career change, having studied a degree in Architecture at the University of Granada in Spain followed by 8 years at Fosters and Partners. She has also worked in many other areas: event organizer, blogger, graphic designer, teacher, waitress, PR, strawberry picker, media runner, writer, sales… She loves supporting entrepreneurship, having started up her own events company in 2014 that she has been running since. Carmen's biggest passion is to help people connect with themselves and to guide them while they create, develop and implement new ideas and career paths. A Spanish native, who has lived in 4 different countries, holds 2 passports and has extensively travelled the world, she loves learning about new places and cultures and strongly believes that traveling is an extraordinary tool for self-connection. Connect with Carmen on LinkedIn. ‌Trust your nature. Be you. Don't be scared. We are all needed and we are all here. There is a balance in the world. We just need to go to the right place of the puzzle. You are here with a profile, and you are here to use it and to be authentic. Trust yourself, accept yourself, and have fun. Links Headspace (meditation app) My Learning Quarantine My Analog Parties Origami The School of Life The Tim Ferriss Show Global Experiences Pomodoro technique TED talks Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett Why Some of Us Don't Have One True Calling by Emilie Wapnick Are You A Giver or A Taker by Adam Grant Books Designing Your Life A Job to Love by The School of Life The Emotionally Intelligent Office by The School of Life How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick Deep Work by Cal Newport The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday People mentioned Tim Ferriss Cal Newport Andy Puddicombe (from Headspace) Alain de Botton Emilie Wapnick Adam Grant Topics Intro. [0:00] Carmen. [1:59] A new starting point. [9:58] Fear of not changing. [12:24] The Renaissance profile. [13:55] When should we just do one thing? [14:57] Multipotentialites. [15:42] Techniques to manage multiple activities. [19:17] Pomodoro technique. [20:09] Deep work and productive meditation. [20:49] Placing problems in your mind. [23:29] What distracts you? [26:44] From the office to remote work. [27:37] When are you most productive? [28:22] When do you get your best ideas? [29:01] Work life balance. [29:22] Life coaching. [31:54] The Myers Briggs test: 16-personalities. [33:47] Success. [35:19] Role models. [36:58] Be you. [39:27] Deliberate practice. [40:45] Distractions. [41:34] Mindful technology. [41:55] Portfolio career profiles in COVID. [44:35] Routines. [45:24] Meditation. [46:45] Is your life simple? [47:13] Your mission. [48:22] Habits. [49:00] Hobbies. [49:19] Side projects. [50:01] Books, talks, and podcasts. [50:43] Connect with Carmen. [52:38] 'You have a portfolio career.' [53:27] Outro. [54:39] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme and exit songs, Sleep and A Loop to Kill For, by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Algorithms by Chad Crouch. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Insisting Simplicity's author, JR, on crafting your own routine from scratch, writing, blogging, frugal practices to achieve financial independence, permaculture design, the struggles of making a living as an artist, and more. Insisting Simplicity is a blog about simple living, minimalism, and adventure travel that JR writes to celebrate life, our planet, and the richness of simple living. "I'm obviously attracted to the concept of simple living and to a stoic aesthetic and something that is boiled down to the really fundamental things in life that matter." "You don't necessarily need cars and mansions and consumerism to do any of those things." Links Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE movement) Permaculture design Calm (meditation app) Waking Up by Sam Harris (meditation app) Making Sense by Sam Harris (podcast) Workin' Out Back with Poppy Insisting Simplicity series The Biggest Little Farm (movie) Peak oil The Trinity Study and the 4 percent rule 10,000-Hour Rule popularized in Outliers by Malcolm Gladwel Blogs 11 Reasons Not to Become Famous by Tim Ferriss Tenth Acre Farm Practical Self-Reliance Designing Your Life by Bill Bernett & Dave Evans The Frugal Engineers Designing Your Life (with Insisting Simplicity) (essay) Books Waking Up by Sam Harris Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley & William Danko The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut Walden by Henry David Thoreau Retrosuburbia by David Holmgren People Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman Ralph Waldo Emerson Bill Mollison David Holmgren Masanobu Fukuoka Sepp Holzer Joel Slayton Kurt Vonnegut John Maeda John Muir Carmen Chamorro Mr. Money Mustache Mad Fientist Dan Harris Sam Harris Tim Ferriss Seth Godin Notes Intro. [1:11] JR [2:16] How did you start the blog? [3:03] Writing. [5:22] A secret identity. [6:51] Insisting Simplicity. [9:22] Generalist or specialist? [10:58] The 10,000-Hour rule. [14:07] Integrity. [20:31] A new routine. [21:38] Life cycles. [24:35] Permaculture design. [26:23] Financial independence. [34:06] Frugal practices. [41:02] The struggles of making a living as an artist. [58:24] Who should spread your idea? [1:05:28] JR's daily routine. [1:09:37] Meditation. [1:11:54] How did you come across Getting Simple? [1:14:17] What's next for you? [1:15:57] Connect with JR. [1:18:06] Define success. [1:18:31] Role models. [1:18:37] Book recommendations. [1:19:22] A recent positive purchase of $100 or less. [1:20:19] What helped you write better? [1:20:55] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme and exit songs, Sleep and A Loop to Kill For, by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Algorithms by Chad Crouch. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Autodesk's Kean Walmsley (@keanw) on prioritizing fun, freedom, and flexibility, traveling and working around the world with family, blogging, teaching, remote work, and the post-COVID world. Kean Walmsley works at Autodesk Research, based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Kean joined Autodesk in 1995 and has worked in a number of Autodesk offices around the world – in the UK, the US, India and Switzerland – and in a number of roles, both technical and management-focused. He spent several years working in the Autodesk Developer Network and four years as a Software Architect for the AutoCAD product line. In 2006 Kean started his popular Through the Interface blog, through which he enjoys a regular dialog with software developers working with Autodesk technologies. He also uses the blog to share his research into how Autodesk technologies connect with emerging industry trends, such as reality capture, natural user interfaces, virtual reality, and the internet of things. Kean holds a Masters degree in European Computer Science from the University of Kent at Canterbury, as well as a License d’Informatique from l'Université de Paris-Sud. Outside work – aside from spending time with his family – Kean tries hard to play sport on a daily basis, whether indoor hockey, football or (on winter weekends) snowboarding. Connect with Kean on LinkedIn, Twitter (@keanw) & About.me/keanw. Favorite quotes "You can do good in the world and make a difference to people without blindly chasing your vision." "It's mostly about enjoyment and less about having a goal in mind." "I'm very happy that I did start the blog. It, for sure, from my perspective, has led to me having the freedom to make these changes and to do what I do now." "In the course of teaching you deepen your understanding of things, of lots of things. And there is this feedback loop that you create when you're seeing people progress, and you're really getting a genuine sense that you're helping people." "Fun is an ultimate driving force for me. I do want to have fun at work on a regular basis." "It is true that things will be different, but I I'm mostly just seeing the positive aspects for the moment." Links Transcript Through the Interface (Kean's blog) Boules and pétanque (french games) Functional programming Dasher 360 Internet of Things Generative design (concept) Kettlebell snatch This is Love (podcast) One in a million (podcast episode) Something large and wild (podcast episode) Bill & Ted (TV series) - "Be excellent to each other" Between the Lines with Shaan Hurley (blog) Books Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker Programming languages DesignScript Miranda Haskell F# TypeScript JavaScript People mentioned Shaan Hurley Robert Aish Jeff Kowalski Amar Hanspal Dave Turner Azam Khan Simon Breslav Ian Banks Neal Stephenson Alastair Reynolds Ken MacLeod Elon Musk Bill Gates Alvaro Pickmans Jacob Small Adam Menges Tatjana Dzambazova Notes Intro. [1:11] Kean Walmsley. [2:20] Blogging. [9:26] How did blogging change your career? [14:48] 3 posts per week. [16:50] Building your audience. [18:41] Francophilia. [23:38] Programming languages. [25:05] Teaching - How did you get started teaching and what do you get from it? [27:33] Working around the world. [30:54] What's been hard? [33:49] The 3 Fs. [35:32] Remote work. [36:51] Sports. [38:20] COVID-19. [39:36] 6-month family world trip. [41:45] 15 countries. [47:58] The post-COVID world. [54:02] Going virtual - what's lost? [57:11] Telecommuting. [59:12] Connect with Kean (@keanw). [1:02:08] Projects. [1:03:00] Is your life simple? [1:07:42] What could be easier? [1:08:33] Daily habits. [1:09:52] Meditation. [1:10:55] Hobbies. [1:12:06] Books & science-fiction. [1:13:38] Podcasts. [1:15:39] Creativity. [1:17:57] Deliberate practice. [1:19:47] Distractions. [1:21:25] Email. [1:21:44] Success. [1:23:03] Role models. [1:24:44] Someone successful. [1:26:03] A message to the world. [1:27:55] $100 or less. [1:30:31] Apps. [1:31:18] Questions from the internet. [1:32:00] Nono's motivation to do Getting Simple. [1:35:56] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme and exit songs, Sleep and A Loop to Kill For, by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Algorithms by Chad Crouch. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Here's an episode in memory of Patrick Winston which opens the new Sketches series with a short piece on story understanding with artificial intelligence and my experience attending Winston's 6.034 lectures at MIT. "Don't just tell me it's a school bus. Tell me why you think it's a school bus." I've sketched for the last 365 days. A year ago I decided not only to sketch daily but to write short stories and publish them online every Tuesday. The first story went out on July 2, 2019. And today is the first time I'm telling you one of those stories in a podcast, with my voice. Please enjoy this episode, its transcript, and its show notes. Favorite quotes "How come I'm out here and [the orangutans] are in there? How come you're not all covered with orange hair instead of hardly any hair at all? Well, my answer to that is that we can tell stories and they can't." "I think understanding our own intelligence is essential to the survival of the species. We really do need to understand ourselves better." "If I angry you, you may kill me. Thank God, we don't always kill people who anger us. But we humans always are searching for explanations. So if you kill me, and I've previously angered you, and you can't think of any other reason for why the killing took place, and the anger is the explanation." Links Transcript Story Understanding lecture by Patrick Winston Brains, Minds and Machines summer course at MIT Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The Genesis Story Understanding Group "Narrow artificial intelligences [are] technologies that are able to perform specific tasks well, or better than, we humans can." —Michael Copeland Suggestive Drawing Pix2Pix Generative adversarial network (GAN) Hello World, Hello MIT talk (2019) Westworld (series) Carthago delenda est, Carthage must be destroyed Books The Emotion Machine by Marvin Minsky The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky People mentioned Marvin Minsky Patrick Winston Pier Gustafson Dylan Holmes Jonathan Nolan Lisa Joy Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme and exit songs, Sleep and A Loop to Kill For, by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Patrick Winston audio under CC BY SA. Algorithms by Chad Crouch. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Scott Mitchell jumps in time to dissect his own experimentation life philosophy, his efforts to remove creative friction, and his worldview. An experimental episode on Scott's metaphor of the arena, experiments he's carried out over the past years, and his current solo adventure. Scott Mitchell is a designer and software engineer currently working out of Boston, Massachusetts. Scott is the founder of stud.io (stud-io.org), a construction technology company focused on automating fabrication processes for geometrically complex projects. He previously worked as a software engineer at Autodesk as part of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Generative Design group. Scott received masters degrees in both Architecture and Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, and he received his BA in Film and Media Studies from The University of Oklahoma. Favorite quotes "This works for me, and it might not work for other people." "At first you're a player in the arena, and when you get good at that you can step out of the arena and rework the rules of the game, and then step back in." "Can we have slates wiped clean anymore or, because we're out of school, we have a job that just goes own every week, can we create those moments for ourselves where we are able to be entirely free?" "These are two points looking at Scott's life philosophy and its evolution." Links Transcript HowickMaker for Dynamo Constraint satisfaction problems Email Charter Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter Habit tracker sheets template Flow Deliberate practice Books Atomic Habits by James Clear Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport Ultralearning by Scott Young People mentioned Jessie Vogler George Foreman Jose Luis Megan Berry Alan Watts Margot Shafran James Clear Scott Young Cal Newport Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Anders Ericsson Episode notes Intro. [1:17] Two learning steps. [8:49] Main learning challenges to get comfortable with making. [10:23] "This works for me, and it might not work for other people." [10:43] Misusing tools. [15:34] The arena and the ruleset. [16:25] Changing the rules of the arena. [17:38] The beginner's mind - The mindset that—as opposed to holding you back from creating—gives you freedom. [20:01] Documenting your work. [21:38] Experimentation. [23:04] The curls experiment. [24:14] Experiments at studio. [26:05] Hobbies. [28:08] The noodle experiment: Experiment No. 3. [29:52] Experimentation vs. practice. [31:33] Experiments at work and what died at architecture school. [32:56] "Do you ever enjoy being bored?" [34:00] Getting the slate wiped clean. [36:47] Oranges in the shower: Experiment No. 2. [37:33] The ritual of done - The necessity of celebration: getting a sense of fulfillment and freedom. [40:39] Define yourself. [42:29] Flow. [43:15] Work in progress. [44:58] Becoming a slave of systems. [45:59] Benefits of documentation. [46:37] Boredom. [47:15] The podium and friction. [48:01] Shortcuts. [48:56] Laziness and automation. [52:00] Procrastiworking - "The distraction was the thing I was going to get done." [55:48] A disconnection policy. [57:55] Social media. [1:03:16] Books and online resources. [1:03:49] Success. [1:04:52] A role model. [1:05:01] A message to the world. [1:05:43] Wearing 90% black. [1:06:05] The list of things I want. [1:07:20] Book recommendations. [1:08:11] A purchase of a $100 or less. [1:08:15] Connect with Scott. [1:09:31] Simple and intuitive. [1:10:19] The arena. [1:11:50] Clutter. [1:12:46] Email. [1:14:07] Meditation. [1:14:38] Money. [1:15:02] Thanks. [1:15:23] Back to the future. [1:16:56] What's changed? [1:18:51] Outsourcing - Removing creative friction. [1:21:23] Going solo. [1:22:48] Howick Maker. [1:24:12] Finding other people. [1:25:11] Working by yourself - Having your own schedule, things you're going to miss from a full-time job. [1:26:07] What's more likely to fail? [1:27:06] New experiments. [1:28:51] Atomic habits. [1:32:18] Habit tracker template. [1:37:18] Discipline. [1:40:53] Flow vs. Deliberate Practice. [1:41:26] Scheduling your leisure time. [1:42:25] The "Things that.." list. [1:45:10] Outro. [1:49:06] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

What I've learned and what's changed over the past year, and new habits that seem to be here to stick with me for years to come. We're more virtually connected than ever before. Yet, we seem to be more disconnected from one another than any former civilization. We've created shallow ways of communication (say, email or instant messages) which generate a false sense of connection. It's harder to connect in deep ways with our closest friends—where a brief walk, talking on the phone, or a video conference may suffice. But, surprisingly, we spend a huge amount of time learning about random details from the trendiest influencers that we don't even know from our closest friends (but probably should). Favorite Quotes "It's super fast to write 200 words. What's hard is for those words to communicate something meaningful and work as part of a story worth listening." "I've reinforced the feeling that gritty people get more out of whatever it is they do in life. Effort and perseverance win the long-term game." "The important part is creating a consistent and persistent habit first then focus on improving my skills." Links Daniel Natoli from Peripheria Films. [2:41] Sisyphus. [2:52] Make a copy of this template to create your own habit tracker. [5:57] Oak for iOS by Kevin Rose - "An app for the self-experimenter." [10:40] Adam Menges. [10:45] Nono.MA/books Nono.MA/to-read Sketch.Nono.MA Books I've Read Atomic Habits by James Clear Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport Grit by Angela Duckworth When by Daniel Pink 168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana Thinking, Fast and Slow by Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman Books I'd Like to Read The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker Solitude by Michael Harris How to Speak Machine by John Maeda Awareness by Anthony de Mello Originals by Adam Grant. A Year of Transformation Intro. [0:40] Podcast. [2:08] Sketches newsletter. [2:23] Sisyphus. [2:35] Books I've read. [2:59] What's an atomic habit? [3:47] On maintaining habits. [5:52] My habits. [7:00] Sketching. [7:18] Writing. [8:44] Meditating. [9:44] The habit series. [11:20] Being gritty. [11:40] On digital minimalism. [12:08] On re-thinking your time strategy. [13:38] Call to action. [14:16] Wrap up. [15:28] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme and exit songs, Sleep and A Loop to Kill For, by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Patrick Winston audio under CC BY SA. Algorithms by Chad Crouch. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Technology whisperer Tatjana Dzambazova on asking the right questions to avoid the waste of talent, connecting and inspiring others, becoming vegetarian, and the myth of a better life. Tatjana is Director of product management, software solutions, at Bright Machines, a software-driven-manufacturing start-up based in San Francisco.  Tatjana's career started as an architect—she practiced over 12 years in Vienna and London. In 2000 she started her 18-year design technology journey with Autodesk, mainly in dual role of product manager for many new, disruptive software solutions, and a global technology speaker. In her two decades working in the digital design industry she was Autodesk's first product manager for Revit and a pioneer evangelist of the BIM Building Information Modeling approach in architecture and construction. During the Maker movement, she was employee number one and helped launch the Autodesk's consumer group, helping create innovative, disruptive digital fabrication and 3D printing solutions (the 123D line of products, such as 123D Make now known as Slicer for Fusion and many others). This group transformed into Pier 9 and led to a new phase 'Design and Make' in Autodesk, and the creation/acquisition of fabrication tools that complement the design tools. She also led the computer vision initiatives and the ReMake & ReCap Photo product. Tatjana was also on the forefront of web story telling through visual programming, leading the Smithsonian 3DExplorer software effort and Project Play and project manager for Dr. Louise Leakey of African Fossils. Before joining Bright Machines, she spent a year at Velo3D as director of product management, UX, and design, leading Flor, the printing preparation and simulation software of the solution, along with scientists and engineers who are pushing the limits of industrial-grade quality metal additive solutions for aerospace, medical, and industrial applications. Tatjana is a technology book author and an energetic, passionate "Technology Whisperer." She presented at conferences around the world, including TEDx and Future of Storytelling FoST, and gave many talks on the convergence of technology trends and their impact on the future of design and manufacturing, covering Generative Design, Additive Manufacturing, IoT, Robotics, and Machine learning. Don't get confused if you google Tanja and find lots of photos of her and lions, leopards, tigers and jaguars, or mentions of movies where she acted, such as Witness 11 or RICE. Still her, but that's a story for another podcast. Connect with Tanja on LinkedIn and TatjanaDzambazova.com. Favorite quotes "I have chosen a life in which I want to learn a little about many things. Although in reality I respect the opposite, I respect people who have dedicated their entire life to do one thing perfectly." "People love to learn. There's nothing more beautiful than when you give a talk or a lecture and you see somebody's face light up. That's because you opened a new door or opportunity in their mind, and you taught them. They want to know more." "You inspired me so much. I want to be you when I grow up." "For me it's a failure not to try. Innovation is not safe. People who change the world don't rely on talent, they rely on work." "Don't ever let the disbelievers steer you away from a good idea. Just run with it. Believe in yourself and go with it." "How does the world look like with my solution already adopted, fully implemented in the world?" "I feel I'm postponing life." "There's never a later. If you don't do it now you might never do it." Episode links TatjanaDzambazova.com DeepNude creates fake nudes of any woman The Smithsonian Museum Population by Pixel campaign by Hakuhodo Coding Dojo ConservationX Labs Virunga by Orlando Von Einsiedel (movie) Brain Pickings by Maria Popova (blog) Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat Murmurations by National Geographic (video) Murmurations by Islands and Rivers (video) The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake The bullet hole misconception Explained: The Future of Meat on Netflix Factum Arte from Adam Lowe Eating Animals (documentary) Sisyphus by Daniel Natoli (short film) Books The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari The Snow Leopard Project by Alex Dehgan 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari The User Illusion by Tor Norretranders Novecento by Alessandro Baricco The End of Faith by Sam Harris Waking Up by Sam Harris Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer People who inspire Tanja (and others we mention) Herman Hertzberger Anton Schweighofer Mario Botta Abhishek Pani from Bright Machines Daniel Siegel Abraham Wald Jonathan Parshall Brian Mathews from Bright Machines Carl Bass Louise Leakey Amar Hanspal Sam Harris from Making Sense - "We're all in this Titanic together." Ben Fry Jonathan Harris - 24-year-old story teller who's using data visualization Aaron Koblin Alex Dehgan Saul Griffith from Otherlab Emmanuel de Merode - Director of Virunga National Park Sam Harris Maria Popova Iris Van Herpen Adam Lowe Jorge Luis Borges Italo Calvino Alessandro Baricco Patrick Süskind Greta Thunberg Werner Herzog Yuval Noah Harari Daniel Natoli Sarah Krasley from Shimmy Sly Lee from The Hydrous Part 1 — Tatjana Dzambazova [1:16] Think Different by Apple. [2:54] The misfits and the crazy ones. [3:13] Connectors. [4:01] Messengers - Spreading ideas is as (or more important) than coming up with ideas. [5:22] Inspiring others. [6:39] Who is Tatjana Dzambazova? [9:34] Your mission. [10:37] Wasting talent. [11:49] Solving the problems the right way. [12:49] The bullet hole misconception. [13:07] There's a better, new way. [17:55] The most rewarding ideas you've pursued. [20:02] Computer vision, Photogrammetry, Memento, and Laser scanning. [20:58] Technology vs. product. [24:43] The myth of a better life. [26:57] Tatjana's habits to slow down. [29:22] Work culture and being more empathetic. [32:06] Serendipity and creativity at the office. [33:27] A connection you've made. [35:41] Programming teaches you how to think. [36:18] HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Flask, Django, and Jinja. [40:12] People who inspire you. [41:50] How do you disconnect? Going to Africa, hiking, paddling, sewing, and more [46:10] Being a vegetarian, the Dzambazova zoo, and plant-based meat products. [48:03] Connect with Tatjana. [58:56] Book recommendations. [59:47] Your message to the world. [1:01:18] What would you do if you were rich? [1:02:10] Slowing down. [1:03:25] Part 2 — Tanja asks Nono [1:05:25] Tanja asks Nono: What do you want to be when you grow up? [1:05:48] Tanja asks Nono: What would you do if you were a millionaire? [1:09:48] Tatjana's retiring dream. [1:13:37] Outro. [1:14:48] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Nono's daily writing process, tools, and techniques. I believe the ultimate goal of writing is to touch others; to make our words resonate with our readers. Today my spoken words are for you. This episode is part of an experimental series titled Habits in which I share how myself (and others) do certain things and why, hopefully unveiling workflows, techniques, habits, and routines that you can make use of right away. Specifically, this episode focuses on writing and what's helping me write more consistently. I share the software tools and gadgets that I use on a daily basis to journal and write essays, posts, and episodes, and to review and edit my writing. Links Readwise nono.ma/now Typinator for macOS The "commonplace" book was a personal repository of notes DEVONthink Markdown How to format your WhatsApp messages CommonMark iA Writer is my editor of choice Dropbox Paper My sketches pandoc pdflatex Mercury extension for Google Chrome Send to Kindle extension for Google Chrome by Amazon iA Writer templates Syntax typeface Bembo typeface iA Writer duospace The zine went viral on Hacker News The zine sketch and post Tools Kindle Paperwhite Brother HL-L2375DW printer Rapesco 790 long-arm stapler Xerox 80-gram recycled paper Books Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Atomic Habits by James Clear You Can't Make This Stuff Up by Lee Gutkind Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson When by Daniel Pink Other people mentioned Francis Bacon John Locke Andrew Witt John McFarlane Seth Godin Episode notes The Habit. [0:48] The Daily File. [3:20] The Writing Queue. [9:16] Tools. [9:46] Reviewing. [12:05] Printing. [17:00] Sharing. [21:58] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Nono Martínez Alonso on his story, his worldview, how and why he started Getting Simple, and the struggles and joys of making a podcast about simple living, doing less better, and crafting your own lifestyle. Nono Martínez Alonso hosts The Getting Simple Podcast—a show about how you can live a productive, creative, and simple life, in the form of friendly, long-form conversations with creative from eclectic areas—sketches things that call his attention, and writes about enjoying a slower life. Nono is an architect and computational designer with a penchant for simplicity, who focuses on the development of intuitive tools for creatives, and on how the collaboration between human and artificial intelligences can enhance the design process. Currently, Nono works remotely as a Machine Learning Engineer and Designer for Autodesk from Málaga, Spain. Previously, Nono studied Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and worked in the design and delivery of complex architectural geometries at award-winning firms, such as AR-MA (Sydney) and Foster + Partners (London). Links Growth mindset (concept) The Growth Mindset: How to Measure Your Own Success Folio Lobe.ai Otter Interview topics of Getting Simple Twenty Thousand Hertz by Dallas Taylor (podcast) The Minimalists (podcast) Hurry Slowly by Jocelyn K. Glei (podcast) The default network (concept) What Screens Want by Frank Chimero Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin SmartGeometry MIT Media Lab nono.ma/items nono.ma/books nono.ma/to-read Books Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport Deep Work by Cal Newport Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport Atomic Habits by James Clear Mindset by Carol Dweck Getting Things Done by David Allen Tribes by Seth Godin All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin The Information by James Gleick The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly People mentioned Jose Luis García del Castillo Ana García Puyol Seth Godin Descartes Plato Nietzsche Francine Jay, Miss Minimalist Lourdes Alonso Carrión Panagiotis Michalatos James Melouney Cal Newport Adam Menges Tim Ferriss Zach Kron Andres Colubri Ian Keough Ben Fry James Clear Carol Dweck Jocelyn K. Glei Marie Kondo Daniel Goleman Frank Chimero David Allen James Gleick Kevin Kelly Part 1 — Nono's story [2:33] What defines Nono Martínez Alonso and how did you get there? [3:10] Nono's first steps with computers, technology, and programming. [6:00] Burnout at architecture school and going abroad. [10:56] Getting time to focus and learning how to code. [12:57] How did you end up in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts? [13:59] How has going back to Spain been to you? [17:26] What makes working remotely go well? [18:33] What distracts Nono Martínez Alonso? [20:18] Choosing what to work on. [22:54] Less, better. [23:27] What bores you? [24:12] Can you name a successful person? [24:27] Do you consider yourself successful? [25:40] What would you tell your listeners? [27:43] The role of tools and getting better. [31:29] Sharing your tools - Creating tools for others and Folio. [33:02] What's in your future plans? [36:16] Part 2 — The Getting Simple Podcast [36:47] How did the podcast start? [36:57] Why is simplicity so important for you? And where does the Getting Simple name come from? [40:33] The making of this podcast - How much time does it take you to do this podcast, how much cleaning and editing do you do and how, how much time you spent with guests? [41:34] What was the hardest thing to make this podcast at the beginning, and what's the hardest thing now that you're experienced? [45:58] Do you have a script for each interview? [46:41] What's difficult about doing this podcast? [48:10] Nice moments of the podcast. [49:54] Who's rejected your invitation to the podcast? [51:11] What's this podcast really about? [53:10] Where is the Getting Simple podcast going? [57:45] A public invitation to podcast guests, and who would you like to have in the show? [1:00:52] Part 3 — Lightning round [1:01:47] How do you deal with digital clutter? [1:01:59] What does your daily commute look like? [1:02:38] Two ways to start your day. [1:04:03] What does your ideal morning routine look like? [1:04:42] When do you get your best ideas? [1:05:36] Quitting caffeine and alcohol - Self-imposed restrictions, delaying gratification, and willpower. [1:07:21] A healthy relationship with technology. [1:11:27] A recent purchase of $100 o less. [1:18:13] What's your take on clothing? [1:19:10] nono.ma/items. [1:20:34] Book recommendations. [1:21:57] How can people connect with you online? [1:24:46] How did it feel to be interviewed? [1:25:37] Outro. [1:27:02] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. 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Nate Peters on democratizing design tools and using his design skills for good, dealing with internet junk, potential misuses of machine learning, and more. Nate Peters is a computational designer and software developer with experience in design optimization, digital fabrication, and machine learning. Nate received his Master of Design Studies in Technology from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and his Bachelor of Architecture from Iowa State University. Currently he works in Boston as a software engineer in Autodesk’s AEC Generative Design Group. At Autodesk he has assisted in the design and construction of multiple large scale research pavilions, and is currently focused on Project Refinery, a new generative design tool for architects and engineers in the building industry. Connect with Nate on NathanPeters.us, on Twitter at @_natepeters, and on Instagram at @nate_peters. Favorite quotes "If you chase something you enjoy doing the money would follow, if that's what you're really looking for." "It's rare for really good design to come from total isolation." "There is something therapeutic about having the same exact motions every single day." Links Harvard GSD Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Men low-cut socks by Uniqlo Women footsites by Uniqlo The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation Packaged house system by Konrad Wachsmann and Walter Gropius Hardcore History by Dan Carlin (podcast) Radiolab (podcast) Freakonomics x.ai Clippy TensorFlow Neural network Machine learning Barack Obama deep fake in Ars Electronica (video) Pix2Pix Nvidia vid2vid MIT Media Lab Google Brain Books The Information by James Gleick The Prefabricated Home by Colin Davies People mentioned Shelby Doyle Ian Keough Jose Luis García del Castillo y López Peter Boyer Walter Gropius Colin Davies Elon Musk Panagiotis Michalatos Andrew Witt Barack Obama Episode notes Intro. [0:48] Part I. [1:07] Nate Peters. [1:42] The studio culture. [6:47] Public speaking. [9:15] Democratizing design tools. [13:35] Letting others use your tools. [16:03] Learning process. [18:56] Planned or not. [20:05] Software. [20:58] Enabling designers. [22:40] Open source. [24:37] Work-in-progress and documentation. [26:03] Digital management. [27:50] Cloud storage. [28:48] iCloud. [29:31] Internet junk. [30:33] Disconnection. [32:14] Open plan and meetings. [33:22] A creative environment. [34:19] Part II. [36:10] Routine. [36:20] Define yourself. [37:30] Daily habits. [37:59] Yoga and meditation. [38:58] Podcast and book recommendations. [39:40] Making things with my hands. [41:00] Deploying apps to the cloud. [42:08] Boredom. [43:07] Healthy relationship with tech. [44:11] Paranoia. [46:03] Design automation. [51:54] Misusing artificial intelligence. [54:50] Success. [59:06] A person who influenced you. [1:00:37] Role models. [1:01:53] Making for others. [1:03:04] A message to the world. [1:04:08] An actual hobby. [1:05:22] Slowing down. [1:06:10] Quality. [1:06:32] Learning. [1:07:23] Physical clutter. [1:09:05] Financial independence. [1:10:26] A personal uniform. [1:11:43] Distributing money. [1:12:49] A book. [1:13:31] Low cut socks. [1:14:15] Ten years from now. [1:14:54] Connect with Nate. [1:15:51] Your favorite episode. [1:16:18] Outro. [1:16:31] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Harvard University's Andrew Witt on the power of ruminating ideas, understanding complex problems, curating signals, geometric simplicity, introspective automation, and finding time for reflection. Andrew Witt is co-founder, with Tobias Nolte, of Certain Measures, a Boston/Berlin-based office for design futures and an Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University. Trained as both an architect and mathematician, he has a particular interest in a technically synthetic and logically rigorous approach to form. His work has been shown at the Centre Pompidou, Barbican Centre, Futurium, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, among others. Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn and Certain Measures. Favorite quotes "Feeling some sense of accomplishment or success allows you to understand, Okay. What it really takes to feel that level of satisfaction is this amount of work." "When you are eighty, you can look back and see, That's the body of work that I put into the world." "I try not to look at other people's work as much as possible and, partially, it is to force myself to create in a very particular way but also not to create false expectation of speed and expediency and immediate demand which can be super corrosive, especially if you want to nurture something that's going to be durable." "There will be certain moments when you feel like, Okay. This was well done. This is something that I put into the world and is good." "Our whole understanding of what it means to create something which is successful is about creating things which are frictionless and can be distributed as easily as possible through market channels. It's all about this process of consumption." "There's this moment where you see the waves moving away from you towards the horizon. In its very basic way, it's only the water and sky that are around you." Links Certain Measures Gehry Technologies (GT) and Trimble Critique of Pure Reason by Kant Patchwork theory Formulations: Encoding Architecture, Mathematics, and Culture by Andrew Witt Pre-Socratic philosophy Commonplace book The adjacent possible with Stuart Kaufmann High-dimensional spaces Graph theory Mind the scrap Form maps Textonics Ten Books on Architecture—De Architectura—by Vitruvius Set theory Topology Marginalia Friendster Gmail API Feltron Report Pompidou Books Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi People mentioned Kant Steven Johnson Stuart Kauffman Charles Darwin Peter Boyer Vitruvius Alberti Josef Albers Episode notes Introduction. [0:00] Part 1 — Career, ideas, and geometry. [1:04] Certain Measures vs. Harvard. [3:33] Stitching ideas. [8:27] Letting ideas grow. [13:58] Where good ideas come from. [15:23] Mapping super-high dimensional spaces. [18:04] Mapping projects. [21:21] Big data. [22:33] A geometrical challenge. [26:25] Geometric simplicity. [28:25] Simple and intuitive. [31:02] Part 2 — Life, creativity, and the end game. [33:07] Daily habits. [33:17] Reflecting away from the screen. [35:26] Commute and time for reflection. [36:02] Marginalia, being a generous reader - When (and how) Andrew catches up with news and media, and being a "generous" a reader. [36:40] Indexing ideas when reading. [37:11] Creativity. [38:33] Types of ideas. [39:49] Practicing seeing - Deliberate practice and sketching. [41:29] Curating signals - Monastic tendency toward projects, notifications, and social media. [42:00] Scripting email - A better way to work with email using Gmail's API and visualize your interactions with others. [43:33] A customized journal - Automating frequent workflows, quantifying yourself, and the costs of task-switching. [44:49] Time tracking. [46:03] Digital organization. [46:38] Quantified self - "What's driving you to do certain kinds of things?" When is it helpful, or revealing, to track your stuff in order to make decisions. [47:39] Analyzing your writing - And acting on tracked data. [48:55] Swimming. [51:04] A happy moment - "Something that may last longer than your efforts has happened." [53:12] An influential person - "There can be a deep power in returning to certain ideas and mining them for new possibilities over years or decades." [55:46] The end game - "When you are eighty, you can look back and see, 'That's the body of work that I put into the world.'" [57:49] Connect with Andrew. [59:46] Spreadsheet of goals. [1:00:21] (Not) looking at other people's work. [1:02:03] Outro. [1:03:28] Submit your questions and I'll try to answer them in future episodes. I'd love to hear from you. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso