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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 · 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 xkcd: Is It Worth The Time? 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 00:16 · Start 01:25 · How did you get into photography as an architecture student? 02:54 · How do you cope with not having time to pursue new things? 06:42 · Have you been doing much deliberate practice lately? 11:42 · How knowledge translates across tools and disciplines 18:21 · What's your personal way of maintaining growth and creativity? 32:13 · Does that friction become positive? 35:19 · Can everyone make their passion part of their work? 38:43 · Asking yourself "Does it feel gratifying? Is it fulfilling? Is it satisfying?" 44:27 · Have you been hearing about "storytelling" in your field? 48:17 · How can we focus on the human experience instead of other designers? 51:58 · How do you make sure a rebrand isn't just skin deep? 58:34 · What makes people feel something? 01:00:59 · What's most important to focus on if you want to change how you are percieved? 01:03:23 · How do you get to the point where people seek you out? 01:05:45 · The concept of the podium 01:09:14 · The chaos of taking pictures 01:13:20 · How much is just overthinking or overdoing? 01:14:34 · Will anyone notice the time you spend on the details? 01:17:23 · How do you go about capturing creative moments? 01:21:03 · Do you have any daily routines that make you happier or more productive? 01:22:45 · What would be some book recomendations? 01:24:59 · What would be your message to the world? 01:27:05 · Enjoying the process of grinding the beans 01:34:39 · Using your brain to design things vs just grinding mouse clicks and workflow steps 01:37:08 · How would you define simplicity? 01:42:15 · What have you learned about simplicity from making this podcast? 01:46:28 · Where can we find you? 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 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 Chapters 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 · Podcast - Existing YouTube Videos 32:07 · 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

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 Chapters 01:55 · Getting familiar with NFTs 05:22 · The cultural significance of NFTs 08:35 · The $69 million dollar auction that exploded the NFT world 11:44 · NFTs allow for a much clearer history of ownership 13:54 · There are thousands of cryptocurrencies that operate in different ways 14:44 · NFTs are created inside the Ethereum chain 16:34 · Privacy in the blockchain 18:23 · Minting an artwork costs money 21:05 · The environmental impact of crypto transactions 22:22 · Artists make limited drops to build hype around their work 23:42 · Moving from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake 26:02 · Have you bought an NFT yet? 28:04 · You're not going to create value out of thin air 29:41 · Wrapping up 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 Chapters 00:00 · Intro 00:33 · Announcements 01:22 · Start 03:53 · Descript 09:40 · Studio Sound 11:37 · What's that little UI library? 13:41 · CRDT, Yjs, WebSocket, and WebRTC 19:40 · React hooks 21:39 · UI libraries 23:48 · Technical conversations 25:44 · COVID-19 28:11 · Podcast format 28:41 · NFTs and cryptocurrencies 29:53 · 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

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 Chapters 0:00 · Intro 0:28 · What is StyleGAN? 1:39 · Adversarial networks 4:03 · Unexpectedness 5:44 · Does it know what it's drawing? 7:37 · Latent space 8:42 · Hallucinations 9:37 · Creative block 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 Chapters 0:00 · Intro 1:48 · Freediving is a sport 3:52 · Benefits of putting safety and technique first 5:52 · Equalizing 7:55 · Scuba vs Freediving 8:42 · Otovent 11:24 · Shout outs 12:03 · Exercises 14:03 · Being deep underwater 18:40 · Equipment 21:57 · How did we end up here? 24:15 · Wrapping up 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 Chapters 0:00 · Intro 0:28 · What's new with Runway ML? 1:44 · We need new interfaces 4:23 · The freedom of being a startup 4:55 · How's life? 5:38 · Built with Runway 6:55 · ML Lab and Sequel 8:08 · Interfaces to control ML algorithms 10:31 · Machine intelligence in design, art, and architecture 13:14 · Creativity 14:23 · Originality and bias 16:06 · AI as a tool 18:13 · 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

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 Detailed chapters 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 is 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] Chapters 0:00 · Intro 0:59 · Magic 13:26 · Being an entertainer 21:34 · Talent, effort, and creativity 33:37 · A year on pause 43:01 · Lifestyle and time management 47:46 · Solitude and productivity 50:25 · Success 52:36 · A deck of cards 54:12 · Magic trick 56:18 · A message 58:47 · Closing thoughts 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