Getting Simple

Conversations on simple living, lifestyle design, creativity, technology, and culture. Nono is a creative technologist and AI researcher.

#74: Andy Payne — Grasshopper 2

Andy Payne—architect and software developer at McNeel—on Grasshopper 2's latest features.

06-11
15:01

#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.

04-30
01:21:29

#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.

06-30
01:03:26

#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.

04-26
01:45:32

#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.

12-07
01:13:54

#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.

10-26
33:24

#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.

09-30
01:18:58

#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.

07-29
46:24

#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.

06-29
23:34

#65: Sketches — It's Nice to See You, In Person

Thoughts on traveling and meeting people in person after the COVID-19 pandemic.

05-31
11:04

#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.

04-20
40:27

#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.

03-24
02:11:00

#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.

03-04
01:11:10

#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.

02-23
01:41:36

#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.

02-07
01:12:53

#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.

01-21
01:51:11

#58: Goodbye, 2021

Podcasting, live streaming, sketching, and writing highlights of 2021, and why you should start writing in public.

01-02
20:32

#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.

12-13
13:31

#56: One Year of Live Streams — Teaching & Coding

Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Jose Luis Garcia Del Castillo on teaching and coding live.

11-29
40:59

#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.

10-26
32:51

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