Getting Simple
94 episodes - English - Latest episode: 29 days ago - ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsConversations on simple living, lifestyle design, creativity, technology, and culture. Nono is a creative technologist and AI researcher.
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#74: Andy Payne — Grasshopper 2
June 11, 2024 06:00 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBAndy Payne—architect and software developer at McNeel—on Grasshopper 2's latest features. 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 sever...
#73: Andy Payne — Grasshopper, Rhino Compute, Teaching, Learning to Code & Gen AI
April 30, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBAndy 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 hi...
#72: Ian Keough — Hypar, Open Source, Remote Work, Monetization, and Generative AI
June 30, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBIan 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...
#71: Alex O'Connor — Transformers, Generative AI, and the Deep Learning Revolution
April 26, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 97.1 MBAlex 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....
#70: Zach Kron — Art, Creativity, and Personal Evolution
December 07, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBZach 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,...
#69: Q&A with Nono — Podcasting Tips
October 26, 2022 06:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBNono 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 prog...
#68: Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah — Systems Upgrade
September 30, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBLeire 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 arch...
#67: Frank Harmon — Writing, Drawing, and Sense of Place
July 29, 2022 06:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBFrank 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...
#66: DALL-E 2, The Creative Process, and Blogging Tools
June 29, 2022 06:00 - 23 minutes - 22 MBExperiments 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...
#65: Sketches — It's Nice to See You, In Person
May 31, 2022 16:00 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBThoughts 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 ...
#64: Habits & Passion Projects
April 20, 2022 06:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBMy 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 Keoug...
#63: Andrew Witt — Formulations, Mathematical Design, and Writing
March 24, 2022 06:00 - 2 hours - 120 MBAndrew 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 rigor...
#63: Andrew Witt — Formulations, Mathematical Design, and Writing
March 24, 2022 06:00 - 2 hours - 120 MBAndrew 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 rigor...
#62: Adam Menges — Visual Programming, Social Fintech, Bitcoin and NFTs & Lessons Learned Building Software Products
March 04, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBAdam 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 [email protected] and +...
#61: Nate Peters — NFTs, Generative Art, Making Your Own Tools & Online Attention
February 23, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 93.5 MBNate 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 Technolo...
#60: The Short-Sightedness of Web3 and Blockchain, Anonymity & Original Ideas of Where We Could Go
February 07, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBA 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?” “In...
#59: Jordan Gray — Creative Friction, Storytelling in Design, Passion Projects & the Beginner Feeling
January 21, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBJordan 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, recogniz...
#58: Goodbye, 2021
January 02, 2022 07:00 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBPodcasting, 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, a...
#57: Bytes — The Black Box
December 13, 2021 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBHost 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. ...
#56: One Year of Live Streams — Teaching & Coding
November 29, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes - 38 MBHost 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...
#55: One Year of Live Streams — Live Q&A
October 26, 2021 06:00 - 32 minutes - 30.5 MBHost 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...
#54: Bytes — NFTs and Digital Art
October 16, 2021 06:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBHost 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...
#54: Bytes — NFTs & Digital Art
October 16, 2021 06:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBHost 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...
#53: Machine Learning-Based Audio Editing, React, UI Libraries, NFTs, and COVID
October 12, 2021 06:00 - 30 minutes - 28.8 MBHost 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...
#52: Sketches — Work or Walk
September 22, 2021 06:00 - 2 minutes - 2.78 MBReclaiming time to be human. 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 and exit songs, Sleep and A Loop to Kill For, by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter...
#51: Bytes — StyleGAN
August 05, 2021 06:00 - 10 minutes - 10.5 MBHost 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 ...
#50: Freediving
July 14, 2021 06:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBHost 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 Castr...
#49: Cristóbal Valenzuela — Machine Intelligence, Interfaces for Creativity and Originality, the Freedom of Being a Startup, and Runway
June 30, 2021 06:00 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBRunway'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 s...
#48: Héctor Ruiz — Magic and The Art of Illusionism
May 31, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes - 55.3 MBIllusionist 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. ...
#47: Bytes — Intro
May 06, 2021 07:00 - 11 minutes - 11.2 MBHost 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 cod...
#46: Luis Ruiz Padrón — Sketching, Writing, and Teaching Through The Lens of Architecture
April 26, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBLuis 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 l...
#45: Habits — Looping Playlists
March 23, 2021 05:00 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBA practice to focus by listening to the same songs, over and over again. Chapters 0:00 · The compact disc and streaming services 0:56 · The walkman and repeat mode 2:51 · Looping playlists, the practice 8:09 · Repeat one 9:38 · My playlists 10:35 · Focus Zero 11:07 · Focus A 12:14 · Focus B 13:56 · I'd love to hear from you 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 sh...
#44: Mini-Retirements
March 13, 2021 08:00 - 22 minutes - 21.2 MBTechniques, challenges, and reasons to live as if you were retired. Chapters 0:00 · Intro 0:28 · Marc's question 1:12 · What are mini-retirements? 3:56 · Challenges 7:04 · Vacation slack 8:38 · How much money do you need? 10:17 · Financial independence 11:42 · Creating your own products 12:54 · Passive income, freelance, and full-time 14:02 · Money is time 16:08 · Safety 17:39 · Enjoy every day 19:09 · Pause 20:30 · Living as if you were retired 21:31 · Do you need a mini-re...
#43: James Melouney and Selene Urban — Overcoming The Fear of Meditation, Practices, Authenticity, Connecting With Your Audience, and More
February 28, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 94.5 MBJames 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...
#42: Mike Gabour — Falling in Love With the Ocean, Dark Showers, Attention, The Sensorium, and The Contents of his Backpack
January 31, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBStrategist, 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. Lea...
#41: ALGO — Lessons from Teaching, Live Streaming, Publishing, and 3 Years of Podcasting
December 24, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBHarvard'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...
#40: Music or Podcasts? Commuting, Meditative Walks, and Solitude
December 10, 2020 08:00 - 13 minutes - 13.2 MBDuring your commute, do you listen to music or podcasts? Books Deep Work (and productive meditation) by Cal Newport Links My Podcasts Not Music blog post (2014) Oak meditation and breathing app Hurry Slowly podcast by Jocelyn K. Glei Deep Questions podcast by Cal Newport People mentioned Adam Menges Cal Newport Chapters 00:00 · Intro 03:38 · Why not music, by default? 04:20 · Focus and meditation 04:53 · Why listen to podcasts? 05:46 · Solitude 06:24 · Meditative walks 07...
#39: Roberto Molinos — Plan for Failure: The Peace of Mind of Being Patient and Antifragile
November 18, 2020 05:03 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBModelical'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 informati...
#38: Sketches — Newsletterversary
November 06, 2020 08:00 - 3 minutes - 3.55 MBCelebrating 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 basal...
#37: Adam Menges — Lobe: Machine Learning Made Simple
October 26, 2020 07:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBMicrosoft'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 ...
#36: Daniel Natoli — The Making of Sisyphus
September 16, 2020 07:00 - 7 minutes - 7.16 MBDirector 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—so...
#35: Habits — Atomic Habits
August 26, 2020 07:00 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBHow 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 pract...
#34: Sketches — Quantity or Quality
August 12, 2020 07:00 - 4 minutes - 4.38 MBGenerating 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 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, wo...
#33: Carmen Chamorro — From 9-to-5 to Freedom, A Journey to A Portfolio Career
July 20, 2020 04:03 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBPortfolio 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. Ca...
#32: JR — Insisting Simplicity, Frugal Practices to Achieve Financial Independence, and Permaculture Design
June 26, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBInsisting 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...
#32: JR — Insisting Simplicity, Frugal Practices to Achieve Financial Independence, and Permaculture Design
June 26, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBInsisting 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...
#31: Kean Walmsley — Fun, Freedom, Flexibility, and Family
May 28, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBAutodesk'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 ...
#30: Sketches — Stories Are the Answer
April 30, 2020 07:00 - 10 minutes - 9.87 MBHere'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 tod...
#29: Scott Mitchell — Experimentation in the Arena
March 31, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBScott 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...
#28: A Year of Transformation
February 06, 2020 08:00 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBWhat 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 vid...