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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
      • Nono’s sketches and stories
      • Which one would you like to read? (post)
      • NFTs
      • Solana (cryptocurrency)
      • YouTube channel
      • Readwise
      • The Flatten Layer, Explained (video)
        People mentioned
        • Ian Keough
        • Andrew Witt
        • Joanie Lemercier
        • Aziz Barbar
        • David Allen
        • Dieter Rams
        • Cal Newport
          Chapters
          • 00:00 · Introduction
          • 01:34 · Daily habits
          • 05:08 · Active projects
          • 07:27 · The blog
          • 09:11 · Sketches & stories
          • 15:06 · Studio
          • 17:06 · Podcast
          • 21:36 · YouTube channel
          • 23:24 · Knowledge anxiety
          • 24:43 · Anything, not everything
          • 25:45 · Monetization
          • 28:41 · Learning and play
          • 32:22 · Crypto and digital art
          • 36:21 · I need your help
          • 39:50 · Outro

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            41 min
          • #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 an Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University. Trained as both an architect and mathematician, he has a particular interest in a technically synthetic and logically rigorous approach to form. His work has been shown at the Centre Pompidou, Barbican Centre, Futurium, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, among others. Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn and Certain Measures.


            Favorite quotes
            • “It’s not possible to do everything in an amazing way all at once. You have to cycle through those things. Different moments in life will create different opportunities.”
            • “One of the consequences of mass media is that [it] creates intuitions around certain concepts through imagery.”
            • "The only thing that really conveys human value to things is time.”
            • “What remains after people are gone?”
            • Books
              • Formulations by Andrew Witt
              • Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
              • Synergetics by Buckminster Fuller
                Links
                • Andrew Witt
                • Certain Measures
                • Application public interface (API)
                • The Black Box with Aziz Barbar
                • Grasshopper & Dynamo
                • Deep nostalgia and deepfakes
                • DeFi and NFTs
                • The adjacent possible is an idea introduced by Stuart Kauffman in 2002 and later used by Steven Johnson
                • Log magazine edited by Cynthia Davidson
                • A Machine Epistemology in Architecture by Andrew Witt
                • MIT Press
                • A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton
                • HfG is Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
                • Institut Henri Poincaré is a mathematics research institute
                  People mentioned
                  • Alfred North Whitehead
                  • Charles Johnson - Matrix theorist
                  • Buckminster Fuller
                  • Steve Baer
                  • Bruno Latour
                  • Norbert Wiener
                  • Tobias Nolte
                  • Refik Anadol
                  • Satoru Sugihara
                  • William Huff
                  • Louis Kahn
                  • Ben Ferhman-Lee - Graphic designer
                  • Cynthia Davidson - Book series editor
                  • Sean Canty, Esther Choi, and Cameron Wu
                  • Aziz Barbar
                  • Henri Poincaré
                  • Peter Pierce
                  • Sanford Kwinter
                  • Paul Erdös
                  • Chapters
                    • 00:00 · Introduction
                    • 01:22 · Mathematical design
                    • 06:53 · Gray boxing
                    • 09:28 · Black box algorithms
                    • 14:26 · Knowledge anxiety
                    • 20:47 · Collective authorship
                    • 22:04 · Adjacent possible
                    • 27:18 · The physical medium
                    • 30:13 · Triangulation and photogrammetry
                    • 33:40 · Voxel and pixel
                    • 37:52 · The role of the designer
                    • 41:10 · Formulations book
                    • 43:48 · Catalogs
                    • 48:56 · The eve of digitization
                    • 52:58 · Artificial intelligence
                    • 01:00:26 · Mass media
                    • 01:02:29 · Research methods
                    • 01:06:25 · Book publishing
                    • 01:15:10 · Writing
                    • 01:19:04 · Digital gardens
                    • 01:21:53 · Creative thinking
                    • 01:26:20 · Lecture preparation
                    • 01:30:20 · Erdös number
                    • 01:32:43 · Zines
                    • 01:39:54 · Consistency
                    • 01:41:08 · Time
                    • 01:43:18 · NFTs as value stores
                    • 01:48:44 · NFTs at Certain Measures
                    • 01:50:42 · The AI design critic
                    • 01:55:20 · Modern-day design collectives and influencers
                    • 01:58:38 · Advice for young people
                    • 02:01:08 · Money
                    • 02:03:35 · Collaboration and delegation
                    • 02:06:16 · Death
                    • 02:07:55 · Success
                    • 02:09:27 · Outro

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                      2 hr 11 min
                    • #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 founder at Lobe, a company acquired by Microsoft that aims to make deep learning accessible. You can contact Adam to find out more at adammenges.com, and reach out to him at [email protected] and +17204840285.


                      Books
                      • The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
                        Links
                        • HyperCard
                        • Lobe
                        • The Origins of Lobe - Adam’s first appearance on the podcast
                        • Figma GPT-3 plugin by Jordan Singer
                        • GitHub Copilot
                        • Pokemon GO by Niantic
                        • Dreams for PlayStation - A game to create games
                        • Horizon Worlds by Meta
                        • Proof of work vs Proof of stake
                        • Support-vector machines
                        • The Hive (mesh network)
                        • Calendly
                        • Google Magenta
                        • Moxie Marlinspike’s NFT that turns into shit if you buy it
                        • Helium Network Hints at Crypto's Practical Uses
                          Visual programming languages
                          • Quartz composer
                          • Blender
                          • Facebook Origami for user interfaces
                          • Spark AR for Instagram filters
                          • Grasshopper 3d
                          • Autodesk Dynamo
                          • vvvv
                          • Davinci Resolve Fusion
                          • Max/Jitter
                          • TouchDesigner
                          • Unreal Blueprints
                          • Node-RED
                          • People mentioned
                            • Kyle Steinfeld
                            • Jordan Singer
                              Chapters
                              • 00:00 · Introduction
                              • 02:45 · Visual programming
                              • 07:40 · Grasshopper
                              • 11:14 · Extendability
                              • 13:19 · Lobe's visual programming interface
                              • 14:31 · The role of visual programming
                              • 17:00 · HyperCard
                              • 18:11 · Accessibility
                              • 20:52 · Making programming easier
                              • 23:45 · Artificial intelligence for creatives
                              • 24:27 · Polarization and human-machine collaboration
                              • 28:12 · Pair programming with AI
                              • 31:39 · Software for gamers
                              • 35:45 · Healthy social experiences
                              • 36:27 · Hindsight
                              • 37:00 · Startup success and team dynamics
                              • 39:11 · Macro and micro focus
                              • 41:38 · Analysis paralysis
                              • 43:18 · Routines
                              • 45:09 · Ranking the news with AI
                              • 48:27 · Staying in touch with friends
                              • 50:40 · Zoom fatigue
                              • 53:35 · COVID
                              • 55:29 · Bitcoin
                              • 57:43 · Hacking NFTs
                              • 01:01:10 · A crypto use case
                              • 01:03:15 · Social FinTech
                              • 01:06:45 · Advice for young people
                              • 01:08:59 · Happiness
                              • 01:10:30 · Connect with Adam

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                                1 hr 12 min
                              • #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 live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence.

                                Nate works as a software engineer for Autodesk. Before joining Autodesk, he earned his Master of Design Studies in Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture at Iowa State University.

                                We’re no experts, so please don’t take our words as financial advice. We just hope our conversation sheds some light in your own path to learning more about the world of digital currencies, machine learning, and technology.


                                Links
                                • Substack & Revue
                                • Memberful
                                • Descript’s new features
                                • Typinator, PHP, Bash & Makefiles
                                • Processing & p5.js
                                • WebGL & three.js
                                • HuggingFace & Gradio
                                • Foundation.app, NiftyGateway & OpenSea
                                • Smart contracts
                                • NFTs (non-fungible tokens)
                                • Ethereum & Solana
                                • Artblocks
                                • SHA256 hash generator
                                • Pix2Pix, StyleGAN & Pixel2Style2Pixel
                                • Machine-learning based sketch vectorization
                                • Suggestive Drawing
                                • iA Writer, Dropbox Paper & Notion
                                • Figma
                                • People mentioned
                                  • Refik Anadol
                                  • Tyler Hobbs
                                  • Craig Mod
                                  • Matt DesLauriers
                                  • Seth Godin
                                  • Lex Fridman
                                  • Anthony Pompliano
                                  • Zach Lieberman
                                    Chapters
                                    • 00:00 · Introduction
                                    • 00:57 · NFTs
                                    • 02:55 · Established creators
                                    • 06:27 · Early adopters
                                    • 07:50 · Ownership
                                    • 10:04 · Royalties and smart contracts
                                    • 13:55 · Generative art
                                    • 19:39 · Mechanics of crypto art
                                    • 29:07 · Digital artists vs speculators
                                    • 30:53 · Attention is power
                                    • 34:48 · Supporting artists and platform lockdown
                                    • 47:48 · Laser eyes
                                    • 48:59 · DAOs
                                    • 52:17 · Machine learning and artificial intelligence
                                    • 59:30 · Generative networks
                                    • 01:01:33 · Making machine learning accessible
                                    • 01:10:03 · The fast pace of AI
                                    • 01:21:32 · AI-based audio and video editing
                                    • 01:27:43 · Subscriptions
                                    • 01:37:50 · Advice for beginners
                                    • 01:39:21 · Wrap up
                                    • 01:41:20 · Outro

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                                      1 hr 42 min
                                    • #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 talking to computers, but you also have to talk to people through your code.”
                                      • “How do we figure out, in a digital age, what is good and what should we aim for as a civilization, as a society?”
                                      • “Information is the resolution of uncertainty.” —Claude Shannon, 1948
                                      • Books
                                        • Collected Papers from Claude E. Shannon
                                        • The Information by James Gleick
                                        • Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
                                          Links & Terms
                                          • DeFi (decentralized finance)
                                          • Web3
                                          • Escrow smart contracts
                                          • InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)
                                          • Candy Machine
                                          • Arweave permanent storage
                                          • Genesis Go
                                          • JavaScript, Rust & C++
                                          • Pair programming
                                          • Nifty Gateway & Foundation.app
                                          • MetaMask & Exodus (wallets)
                                          • Coinbase, Kraken & Gemini (exchanges)
                                          • BIP39 (Bitcoin Improvement Protocol)
                                          • Curiosity Stream - “YouTube for nerds”
                                          • The Coding Train with Daniel Shiffman
                                          • Ruby on Rails
                                          • Keras & TensorFlow
                                          • PlayXO.com
                                          • SushiSwap, PancakeSwap & Abracadabra
                                          • Glitch
                                          • Ruby on Rails
                                          • Anchor for Solana
                                          • Learning resources
                                            • How to Mint an NFT on Solana Using Candy Machine
                                            • Solana tutorials by Henry-E
                                            • Solana tutorials by Doug Anderson
                                            • Solana development guide with React, Anchor, Rust & Phantom by Nadir Dabit
                                            • Ethereum & Solana tutorials by Brian Friel
                                            • A normal person explains cryptocurrency
                                            • Starting with Solana, Part 1
                                            • Starting with Solana, Part 4 - A Todo List with Rewards
                                              People mentioned
                                              • Henry-E
                                              • Brian Friel
                                              • Nadir Dabit
                                              • Doug Anderson
                                              • Mr. Beast
                                              • Mark Zuckerberg
                                              • Satoshi Nakamoto
                                              • Edward Snowden
                                              • Richard Feynman
                                              • Aaron Schwartz
                                              • Kevin Kelly
                                              • Daniel Shiffman
                                              • Chapters
                                                • 00:00 · Introduction
                                                • 00:15 · Motivation
                                                • 02:03 · Collaborative AI Sketching
                                                • 05:02 · Blockchain and NFTs
                                                • 09:07 · Promoting positive moral behavior
                                                • 10:20 · Smart contracts
                                                • 12:41 · The simplest smart contract
                                                • 14:37 · NFTs
                                                • 20:11 · Programming smart contracts
                                                • 22:58 · Art
                                                • 25:24 · Crypto wallets and passphrases
                                                • 29:16 · Information
                                                • 31:25 · Security
                                                • 35:43 · Web3
                                                • 39:24 · The convenience of centralization
                                                • 44:02 · A definition of Web3
                                                • 45:05 · Learning resources
                                                • 46:39 · Anonymity
                                                • 49:48 · Zuckerberg or Nakamoto?
                                                • 54:08 · What would a good person do?
                                                • 56:13 · Sharing your life online
                                                • 58:10 · Hijacking the hijacking of your brain
                                                • 01:00:41 · Pair programming
                                                • 01:02:55 · Coding for yourself or others
                                                • 01:06:54 · Impostor syndrome
                                                • 01:10:15 · The constant newbie
                                                • 01:10:58 · Content discoverability
                                                • 01:12:31 · Outro

                                                • I'd love to hear from you.

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                                                  1 hr 13 min
                                                • #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 sketches, to drawing sets, to post-construction marketing, each medium for client communication is key to architectural storytelling. I've always had a passion for the visualization toolset, recognizing how renderings, photography, and filmmaking go hand-in-hand with the design process. It's my proverb to practice openness to new methods when there's a better way. Always explore; always collaborate.


                                                  Links
                                                  • Gray Collab - Jordan’s renderings, photography, and film. Started while freelancing.
                                                  • Jordan on Vimeo
                                                  • Carolina Day School — Asheville, NC by Jordan Gray
                                                  • Kappa Achievement Park: A Place to Belong by Jordan Gray
                                                  • Hanbury
                                                  • xkcd: Is It Worth The Time?
                                                  • Unreal Engine
                                                  • Lumion & VRay
                                                  • Rhino & Grasshopper 3D
                                                  • Building Information Modeling (BIM) & Revit
                                                  • Google Books Ngram Viewer
                                                  • Austin Kleon: Pencil vs. Computer on Hurry Slowly
                                                    Books
                                                    • Less But Better by Dieter Rams
                                                    • Faculty Department Volume 1 by Justin Chung
                                                    • The Photography Storytelling Workshop by Finn Beales
                                                    • So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
                                                    • You Can’t Make This Stuff Up by Lee Gutkind
                                                    • 168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam
                                                      People mentioned
                                                      • Steve Martin
                                                      • Tim Ferris
                                                      • David Allen
                                                      • Cal Newport
                                                      • Jocelyn K. Glei
                                                      • Austin Kleon
                                                      • Dieter Rams
                                                        Chapters
                                                        • 00:00 · Intro
                                                        • 00:16 · Start
                                                        • 01:25 · How did you get into photography as an architecture student?
                                                        • 02:54 · How do you cope with not having time to pursue new things?
                                                        • 06:42 · Have you been doing much deliberate practice lately?
                                                        • 11:42 · How knowledge translates across tools and disciplines
                                                        • 18:21 · What's your personal way of maintaining growth and creativity?
                                                        • 32:13 · Does that friction become positive?
                                                        • 35:19 · Can everyone make their passion part of their work?
                                                        • 38:43 · Asking yourself "Does it feel gratifying? Is it fulfilling? Is it satisfying?"
                                                        • 44:27 · Have you been hearing about "storytelling" in your field?
                                                        • 48:17 · How can we focus on the human experience instead of other designers?
                                                        • 51:58 · How do you make sure a rebrand isn't just skin deep?
                                                        • 58:34 · What makes people feel something?
                                                        • 01:00:59 · What's most important to focus on if you want to change how you are percieved?
                                                        • 01:03:23 · How do you get to the point where people seek you out?
                                                        • 01:05:45 · The concept of the podium
                                                        • 01:09:14 · The chaos of taking pictures
                                                        • 01:13:20 · How much is just overthinking or overdoing?
                                                        • 01:14:34 · Will anyone notice the time you spend on the details?
                                                        • 01:17:23 · How do you go about capturing creative moments?
                                                        • 01:21:03 · Do you have any daily routines that make you happier or more productive?
                                                        • 01:22:45 · What would be some book recomendations?
                                                        • 01:24:59 · What would be your message to the world?
                                                        • 01:27:05 · Enjoying the process of grinding the beans
                                                        • 01:34:39 · Using your brain to design things vs just grinding mouse clicks and workflow steps
                                                        • 01:37:08 · How would you define simplicity?
                                                        • 01:42:15 · What have you learned about simplicity from making this podcast?
                                                        • 01:46:28 · Where can we find you?
                                                        • 01:50:53 · Outro

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                                                          1 hr 52 min
                                                        • #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 healthy and can be, at least, in contact with your close friends, even if you can not spend time with them in person. Join me as I revisit my achievements in podcasting, live streaming, sketching, and writing over the past year. Happy new year!


                                                          Links
                                                          • Freediving podcast
                                                          • Freediving posts: First Impressions, How to prevent your diving mask from fogging up,  Otovent & The Diving Reflex
                                                          • Luis Ruiz interview on video · Huge thanks to Daniel Natoli from Peripheria Films for making this possible.
                                                          • Live stream playlist
                                                          • Bytes series - StyleGAN, NFTs & Digital Art, and The Black Box
                                                          • Machine learning networks - Pix2Pix, StyleGAN & Pixel2Style2Pixel
                                                          • On writing: One Word per Day, 600 days of practice, Why should you write?, Are you writing enough?, and the Writing habits podcast episode
                                                          • Nono’s Substack
                                                          • Most-visited stories of 2021
                                                            Books
                                                            • So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
                                                            • Deep Work by Cal Newport
                                                            • Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
                                                            • Originals by Adam Grant
                                                              People mentioned
                                                              • Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo
                                                              • Daniel Natoli · Peripheria Films
                                                              • Aziz Barbar
                                                              • Adam Menges
                                                              • Andrew Witt
                                                              • James Melouney & Selene Urban
                                                              • Mike Gabour
                                                              • Luis Ruiz Padrón
                                                              • Héctor Ruiz
                                                              • Cristóbal Valenzuela
                                                              • Nate Peters
                                                              • JR from Insisting Simplicity
                                                              • Leo Cremonezi
                                                              • Jordan Gray
                                                              • Kevin Kelly · Books
                                                              • Tim Ferriss · Books
                                                              • Cal Newport · Books
                                                              • Adam Grant · Books
                                                              • Seth Godin · Books
                                                                Chapters
                                                                • 00:00 · Intro
                                                                • 00:15 · Start
                                                                • 00:41 · Achievements
                                                                • 01:07 · Live stream
                                                                • 02:55 · Podcast
                                                                • 03:18 · First full video interview
                                                                • 04:25 · Bytes
                                                                • 05:05 · Freediving
                                                                • 05:53 · Building a recording studio
                                                                • 08:13 · You should write a blog, in public
                                                                • 11:39 · Removing creative friction
                                                                • 12:40 · Most-visited stories of 2021
                                                                • 15:26 · I would love to hear from you
                                                                • 15:44 · 2022
                                                                • 18:19 · Outro
                                                                • 19:23 · Thanks

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                                                                  21 min
                                                                • #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 streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence.

                                                                  Aziz is an architect and design technologist. He occasionally teaches design courses on computation and the built environment.


                                                                  Favorite quotes
                                                                  • "Do we have a backup plan? Very few of us know, we're just blindly trusting these black boxes."
                                                                  • "We're going to have to find ways - we as in the people making the algorithms and people who are technical - to explain how these programs are making decisions for them."
                                                                  • Links
                                                                    • Pascaline (Pascal's calculator)
                                                                    • Open Source Software
                                                                    • Python (programming language)
                                                                    • C# (programming language)
                                                                      People mentioned
                                                                      • Lex Fridman
                                                                      • Travis Oliphant
                                                                        Chapters
                                                                        • 00:00 · Intro
                                                                        • 00:22 · What's the machine doing?
                                                                        • 01:21 · Visible mechanisms and the Pascaline
                                                                        • 02:49 · Obscuring how mechanisms work
                                                                        • 05:02 · Open Source Software
                                                                        • 06:13 · Computers excel at complex and repetitive tasks
                                                                        • 07:07 · Who's making the background algorithms we use daily?
                                                                        • 08:51 · What does 'black boxing' mean?
                                                                        • 10:03 · Two types of black box
                                                                        • 10:37 · Machine learning and explainability
                                                                        • 11:33 · Polarization and a growing need to make algorithms understandable

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                                                                          14 min
                                                                        • #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 machine intelligence.

                                                                          Jose Luis García del Castillo y López is an architect, educator, and Doctor of Design in Technology by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches Computational Design. He runs a weekly Computational Design Live Stream at ParametricCamp.


                                                                          Links
                                                                          • Nono.MA Live YouTube Playlist
                                                                          • ParametricCamp
                                                                          • Previous episodes with Jose Luis: ALGO
                                                                          • Lessons from Teaching, Live Streaming, Publishing, and 3 Years of Podcasting, Will Robots Simplify Your Life? & Freediving
                                                                          • C-Sharp
                                                                          • VVVV
                                                                          • Grasshopper 3D
                                                                          • Processing
                                                                          • p5.js
                                                                          • The Coding Train
                                                                          • Visual Studio Code
                                                                          • JSON
                                                                          • Camtasia
                                                                          • OBS
                                                                            People mentioned
                                                                            • Refik Anadol
                                                                            • Daniel Shiffman
                                                                            • Cal Newport
                                                                            • Lex Fridman
                                                                            • Victor Lin
                                                                            • Robb Beal
                                                                            • Mahmoud Randane
                                                                            • Mahmoud Ala
                                                                            • Saurabh Mhatre
                                                                              Chapters
                                                                              • 00:00 · Intro
                                                                              • 00:34 · Start
                                                                              • 03:15 · How have the podcast and live stream evolved?
                                                                              • 05:31 · Automation, delegation, and friction
                                                                              • 08:00 · Teaching complex topics
                                                                              • 10:21 · Can you be flexible with the topics you cover?
                                                                              • 16:47 · Community
                                                                              • 23:56 · Live podcast format
                                                                              • 26:56 · Video editing
                                                                              • 31:56 · Practice
                                                                              • 33:25 · Content creation
                                                                              • 36:09 · You should not make that video
                                                                              • 39:47 · Connect with Nono and Jose Luis

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                                                                                41 min
                                                                              • #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)
                                                                                  • CATIA, Digital Project and Gehry Technologies
                                                                                  • Harvard GSD
                                                                                  • Parametric modeling
                                                                                    People mentioned
                                                                                    • Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo
                                                                                    • Panagiotis Michalatos
                                                                                    • Carmen Chamorro
                                                                                    • Adam Menges
                                                                                    • Cal Newport
                                                                                      Special thanks
                                                                                      • Bittor Arrillaga
                                                                                      • Jean-Marc Couffin
                                                                                      • Juanda Cabrera
                                                                                      • Mayur Mistry
                                                                                      • Ricardo César Rodríguez
                                                                                      • Robb Beal
                                                                                      • Sujay Kumarji
                                                                                      • Theaveas So
                                                                                      • Videos mentioned
                                                                                        • Live 38 · Dimensionality reduction with sci-kit learn and t-SNE
                                                                                        • Live 35 · RSS feed parsing
                                                                                        • Live 19 · DigitalOcean basics
                                                                                        • Live 18 · Hallucinating Sketches with StyleGAN
                                                                                        • Live 17 · Runway ML and StyleGAN
                                                                                        • Live 16 · Runway ML and Pix2Pix
                                                                                        • Live 15 · Runway ML models
                                                                                        • Live 11 · ResNet 50 and TensorFlow Hub
                                                                                        • Live 09 · Electron, React & TypeScript
                                                                                        • Live 08 · SageMaker training
                                                                                        • Live 07 · Training an image classifier: Part 2
                                                                                        • Live 06 · Training an image classifier: Part 1 (Fashion MNIST)-
                                                                                        • Live 04 · Lobe AI and TensorFlow Lite (TFLite)
                                                                                        • Google Colab
                                                                                        • Jupyter notebooks
                                                                                        • Python Playlist
                                                                                          Programming languages
                                                                                          • PHP
                                                                                          • Objective-C
                                                                                          • Python
                                                                                          • C# (C-sharp)
                                                                                          • Grasshopper
                                                                                          • Golang
                                                                                          • Perl
                                                                                          • Processing
                                                                                          • Libraries
                                                                                            • esbuild
                                                                                            • create-serve
                                                                                            • perfect-freehand
                                                                                              Chapters
                                                                                              • 00:00 · Intro
                                                                                              • 01:44 · Start
                                                                                              • 03:20 · How has the channel evolved since the first live stream?
                                                                                              • 07:50 · What challenges have you faced coding live?
                                                                                              • 11:39 · How many programming languages are you familiar with?
                                                                                              • 14:50 · Have you considered doing tutorials for beginners?
                                                                                              • 15:48 · Do you have any tips on time management?
                                                                                              • 18:20 · Who got you into coding for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC)?
                                                                                              • 21:36 · Coding for AEC is not mainstream in China or India
                                                                                              • 22:10 · Are community-based learning and tutorials the future of learning?
                                                                                              • 23:57 · Should I get a master's degree in machine learning?
                                                                                              • 24:50 · What's your take on work-life balance?
                                                                                              • 28:09 · How can I acquire solid math knowledge?
                                                                                              • 29:08 · Podcast - Existing YouTube Videos
                                                                                              • 32:07 · Outro

                                                                                              • I'd love to hear from you.

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                                                                                                Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast.


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