Getting Simple

Getting Simple

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

Episodes

June 11, 2024 15 mins

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 ...

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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 de...

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    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, monetizatio...

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    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 h...

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    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 i...

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    October 26, 2022 33 mins

    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 h...

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    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.


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    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 Sta...

  • 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.


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

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


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    • "You can do anything that you set your mind to, but you don't have time to do everything.” —Frank Harmon

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    April 20, 2022 40 mins

    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.


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    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/Berl...

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    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 art...

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    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 h...

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    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 synd...

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    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 ...

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    January 2, 2022 20 mins

    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 healthy ...

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    December 13, 2021 13 mins

    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 s...

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    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...

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    October 26, 2021 32 mins

    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.


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