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

#71: Alex O'Connor — Transformers, Generative AI, and the Deep Learning Revolution

Apr 26th, 2023 1h 45m

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

#70: Zach Kron — Art, Creativity, and Personal Evolution

Dec 7th, 2022 1h 13m

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 200

#69: Q&A with Nono — Podcasting Tips

Oct 26th, 2022 33m 24s

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

#68: Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah — Systems Upgrade

Sep 30th, 2022 1h 18m

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

#67: Frank Harmon — Writing, Drawing, and Sense of Place

Jul 29th, 2022 46m 24s

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 o

#66: DALL-E 2, The Creative Process, and Blogging Tools

Jun 29th, 2022 23m 34s

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.LinksDALL-E 2, Explained by Nono (video)Variations of "A minimalist 3d render of a

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

May 31st, 2022 11m 4s

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 HarmonLinksIt’s nice to see you, in pers

#64: Habits & Passion Projects

Apr 20th, 2022 40m 27s

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.BooksEssentialism by Greg McKeownLinksMy ‘atomic

#63: Andrew Witt — Formulations, Mathematical Design, and Writing

Mar 24th, 2022 2h 11m

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 Measure

#62: Adam Menges — Visual Programming, Social Fintech, Bitcoin and NFTs & Lessons Learned Building Software Products

Mar 4th, 2022 1h 11m

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 pro

#61: Nate Peters — NFTs, Generative Art, Making Your Own Tools & Online Attention

Feb 23rd, 2022 1h 41m

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, w

#60: The Short-Sightedness of Web3 and Blockchain, Anonymity & Original Ideas of Where We Could Go

Feb 7th, 2022 1h 12m

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-newbi

#59: Jordan Gray — Creative Friction, Storytelling in Design, Passion Projects & the Beginner Feeling

Jan 21st, 2022 1h 51m

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

#58: Goodbye, 2021

Jan 2nd, 2022 20m 32s

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.

#57: Bytes — The Black Box

Dec 13th, 2021 13m 31s

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

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

Nov 29th, 2021 40m 59s

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

#55: One Year of Live Streams — Live Q&A

Oct 26th, 2021 32m 51s

Host Nono Martínez Alonso replies to audience questions on the evolution of the live stream after a year of weekly streams.BooksAtomic Habits by James ClearDigital Minimalism by Cal NewportDeep Work by Cal NewportLinksNono.MA L

#54: Bytes — NFTs & Digital Art

Oct 16th, 2021 30m 31s

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

#53: Machine Learning-Based Audio Editing, React, UI Libraries, NFTs, and COVID

Oct 12th, 2021 30m 56s

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, an

#52: Sketches — Work or Walk

Sep 22nd, 2021 2m 33s

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 o

#51: Bytes — StyleGAN

Aug 5th, 2021 10m 59s

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 podca

#50: Freediving

Jul 14th, 2021 25m 34s

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 recomme

#49: Cristóbal Valenzuela — Machine Intelligence, Interfaces for Creativity and Originality, the Freedom of Being a Startup, and Runway

Jun 30th, 2021 18m 30s

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

#48: Héctor Ruiz — Magic and The Art of Illusionism

May 31st, 2021 59m 56s

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