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Getting Simple
by Nono Martínez Alonso
Conversations on simple living, lifestyle design, creativity, technology, and culture. Nono is a creative technologist and AI researcher.
Episodes
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#74: Andy Payne — Grasshopper 2
Andy 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…
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#73: Andy Payne — Grasshopper, Rhino Compute, Teaching, Learning to Code & Gen AI
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...
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#72: Ian Keough — Hypar, Open Source, Remote Work, Monetization, and Generative AI
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...
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#71: Alex O'Connor — Transformers, Generative AI, and the Deep Learning Revolution
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.…
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#70: Zach Kron — Art, Creativity, and Personal Evolution
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...
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#69: Q&A with Nono — Podcasting Tips
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…
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#68: Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah — Systems Upgrade
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...
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#67: Frank Harmon — Writing, Drawing, and Sense of Place
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...
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#66: DALL-E 2, The Creative Process, and Blogging Tools
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…
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#65: Sketches — It's Nice to See You, In Person
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…
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#64: Habits & Passion Projects
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...
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#63: Andrew Witt — Formulations, Mathematical Design, and Writing
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…
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#62: Adam Menges — Visual Programming, Social Fintech, Bitcoin and NFTs & Lessons Learned Building Software Products
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...
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#61: Nate Peters — NFTs, Generative Art, Making Your Own Tools & Online Attention
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...
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#60: The Short-Sightedness of Web3 and Blockchain, Anonymity & Original Ideas of Where We Could Go
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...
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#59: Jordan Gray — Creative Friction, Storytelling in Design, Passion Projects & the Beginner Feeling
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...
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#58: Goodbye, 2021
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...
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#57: Bytes — The Black Box
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...
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#56: One Year of Live Streams — Teaching & Coding
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…
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#55: One Year of Live Streams — Live Q&A
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)…
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#54: Bytes — NFTs & Digital Art
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...
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#53: Machine Learning-Based Audio Editing, React, UI Libraries, NFTs, and COVID
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…
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#52: Sketches — Work or Walk
Reclaiming 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...
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#51: Bytes — StyleGAN
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...
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#50: Freediving
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...
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#49: Cristóbal Valenzuela — Machine Intelligence, Interfaces for Creativity and Originality, the Freedom of Being a Startup, and Runway
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…
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#48: Héctor Ruiz — Magic and The Art of Illusionism
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...
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#47: Bytes — Intro
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…
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#46: Luis Ruiz Padrón — Sketching, Writing, and Teaching Through The Lens of Architecture
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;...
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#45: Habits — Looping Playlists
A 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…
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#44: Mini-Retirements
Techniques, 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 ·...
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#43: James Melouney and Selene Urban — Overcoming The Fear of Meditation, Practices, Authenticity, Connecting With Your Audience, and More
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,...
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#42: Mike Gabour — Falling in Love With the Ocean, Dark Showers, Attention, The Sensorium, and The Contents of his Backpack
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...
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#41: ALGO — Lessons from Teaching, Live Streaming, Publishing, and 3 Years of Podcasting
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…
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#40: Music or Podcasts? Commuting, Meditative Walks, and Solitude
During 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...
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#39: Roberto Molinos — Plan for Failure: The Peace of Mind of Being Patient and Antifragile
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...
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#38: Sketches — Newsletterversary
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...
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#37: Adam Menges — Lobe: Machine Learning Made Simple
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,...
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#36: Daniel Natoli — The Making of Sisyphus
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...
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#35: Habits — Atomic Habits
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...
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#34: Sketches — Quantity or Quality
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...
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#33: Carmen Chamorro — From 9-to-5 to Freedom, A Journey to A Portfolio Career
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...
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#32: JR — Insisting Simplicity, Frugal Practices to Achieve Financial Independence, and Permaculture Design
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...
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#31: Kean Walmsley — Fun, Freedom, Flexibility, and Family
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…
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#30: Sketches — Stories Are the Answer
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."...
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#29: Scott Mitchell — Experimentation in the Arena
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…
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#28: A Year of Transformation
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...
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#27: Tatjana Dzambazova — The Art of Asking The Right Questions
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…
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#26: Habits — Writing
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...
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#25: Nono Martínez Alonso — The Origins of Getting Simple
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...
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