Getting Simple

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Ase...

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...

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...

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...

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)
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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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