#62: Adam Menges — Visual Programming, Social Fintech, Bitcoin and NFTs & Lessons Learned Building Software Products
Getting Simple
English - March 04, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsSociety & Culture Education Self-Improvement Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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 [email protected] and +17204840285.
Books
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
Links
The Origins of Lobe - Adam’s first appearance on the podcast
Figma GPT-3 plugin by Jordan Singer
Pokemon GO by Niantic
Dreams for PlayStation - A game to create games
Horizon Worlds by Meta
Proof of work vs Proof of stake
The Hive (mesh network)
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
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
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