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  • #54: Bytes — NFTs & Digital Art

    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 volatile markets, and you shouldn't make financial decisions based on this episode.

    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
    • 'Beeple is looking at his whole body of work as it's presented on Instagram as a kind of Duchampian readymade' —Noah Davis
    • Links
      • Beeple (@beeple_crap)
      • Christie’s
      • Foundation.app - “We're bringing digital creators, crypto natives, and collectors together to move culture forward."
      • R//Motherboard by @maxwellstep
      • Nifty Gateway - Owned by Gemini (Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss)
      • Ethereum
      • “Minting” and “Gas”
      • “Drops”
      • MetaMask
      • Metapurse
      • WalletConnect
      • Beeple: A Visionary Digital Artist at the Forefront of NFTs
      • Jack Dorsey sells his first tweet ever as an NFT for over $2.9 million
      • Vignesh Sundaresan, known as MetaKovan, on paying $69 million for Beeple NFT
      • Cardano
      • Zcash
        People mentioned
        • Mike Winkelmann @beeple_crap
        • Vignesh Sundaresan @MetaKovan
        • Vitalik Buterin
          Chapters
          • 01:55 · Getting familiar with NFTs
          • 05:22 · The cultural significance of NFTs
          • 08:35 · The $69 million dollar auction that exploded the NFT world
          • 11:44 · NFTs allow for a much clearer history of ownership
          • 13:54 · There are thousands of cryptocurrencies that operate in different ways
          • 14:44 · NFTs are created inside the Ethereum chain
          • 16:34 · Privacy in the blockchain
          • 18:23 · Minting an artwork costs money
          • 21:05 · The environmental impact of crypto transactions
          • 22:22 · Artists make limited drops to build hype around their work
          • 23:42 · Moving from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake
          • 26:02 · Have you bought an NFT yet?
          • 28:04 · You're not going to create value out of thin air
          • 29:41 · Wrapping up

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            The cover image is a derivative from Imaginibus' picture of a museum frame.


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

            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, and the new informal catch-up conversation podcast format we're testing out.


            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.


            Links
            • Audio Hijack and Loopback by Rogue Amoeba
            • OBS
            • Descript
            • Lyrebird
            • Deepfakes
            • GPT-3
            • Adobe Audition
            • p5.js
            • perfect-freehand by Steve Ruiz
            • TypeScript
            • Yjs, y-websocket & y-webrtc
            • CRDT
            • WebSocket
            • WebRTC
            • DigitalOcean
            • Figma
            • SVG
            • Next.js
            • Leva
            • Perlin noise
            • G-Code
            • Pen plotter
            • React
            • React Hooks
            • React Router
            • React Three Fiber
            • Three.js
            • dat.gui
            • How Figma’s multiplayer technology works
            • Material UI
            • Grommet
            • SCSS
            • Lex Fridman podcast
            • Travis Oliphant on Lex Fridman
            • NumPy & SciPy
            • zk-SNARKs
            • Zero Knowledge Proof
            • Foundation.app
              People mentioned
              • Aziz Barbar
              • Lex Fridman
              • Nate Peters
              • Travis Oliphant
              • Steve Ruiz
                Chapters
                • 00:00 · Intro
                • 00:33 · Announcements
                • 01:22 · Start
                • 03:53 · Descript
                • 09:40 · Studio Sound
                • 11:37 · What's that little UI library?
                • 13:41 · CRDT, Yjs, WebSocket, and WebRTC
                • 19:40 · React hooks
                • 21:39 · UI libraries
                • 23:48 · Technical conversations
                • 25:44 · COVID-19
                • 28:11 · Podcast format
                • 28:41 · NFTs and cryptocurrencies
                • 29:53 · Outro

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                  31 min
                • #52: Sketches — Work or Walk

                  Reclaiming time to be human.



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                  Theme and exit songs, Sleep and A Loop to Kill For, by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0.


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                  3 min
                • #51: Bytes — StyleGAN

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


                  Favorite quotes
                  • "Do we learn less because we can skip certain steps?"
                  • "Do we skip the process of hiring a designer if we have a computer algorithm that can generate those paintings for us?"
                  • "StyleGAN is an algorithm open-sourced by NVIDIA - that's the company that creates the graphic cards - that can learn from the features or style of a bunch of images and generate synthetic (or fake) images that resemble the original ones."
                  • Links
                    • StyleGAN
                    • Pix2Pix
                    • Generative adversarial network
                    • Machine learning
                    • Image classification
                    • Latent space
                      People mentioned
                      • Ian Goodfellow
                      • Phillip Isola
                        Chapters
                        • 0:00 · Intro
                        • 0:28 · What is StyleGAN?
                        • 1:39 · Adversarial networks
                        • 4:03 · Unexpectedness
                        • 5:44 · Does it know what it's drawing?
                        • 7:37 · Latent space
                        • 8:42 · Hallucinations
                        • 9:37 · Creative block

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                          The cover image is a derivative from NVIDIA's RTX 2080 graphics card.


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                          11 min
                        • #50: Freediving

                          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 recommendation systems.


                          Before parting ways at the boarding gate, Jose Luis and I captured our first impressions after a week of freediving classes; what we learned, what we loved, and things we thought we knew but didn't.

                          Big thanks to Paco González Castro, Biaggio Alessandro Picardi, Fernando, and Georgia for an unforgettable week.

                          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
                          • Apnea Academy West Europe
                          • Freediving
                          • Freediving lead weights
                          • Freediving mask
                          • Tenerife
                          • Otovent
                          • Nono's freediving first impressions
                          • How to prevent your diving mask from fogging up
                          • @deivid.af
                          • Spearfishing
                            Chapters
                            • 0:00 · Intro
                            • 1:48 · Freediving is a sport
                            • 3:52 · Benefits of putting safety and technique first
                            • 5:52 · Equalizing
                            • 7:55 · Scuba vs Freediving
                            • 8:42 · Otovent
                            • 11:24 · Shout outs
                            • 12:03 · Exercises
                            • 14:03 · Being deep underwater
                            • 18:40 · Equipment
                            • 21:57 · How did we end up here?
                            • 24:15 · Wrapping up

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

                              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, and make art.


                              Cristóbal Valenzuela is a technologist, artist and software developer interested in the intersection between artificial intelligence and creative tools. He is Runway's co-founder.

                              Previously, he co-founded Latent Studio, a creative studio specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He also contributes to OSS and helps maintain ml5.js. His work has been sponsored by Google and the Processing Foundation and his projects has been exhibited in Latin America and the US, including NeurIPS, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, ARS Electronica, GAM, ACADIA, Fundación Telefonica, Lollapalooza, NYC Media Lab, New Latin Wave, DOCLAB, Inter-American Development Bank, Stanford University and New York University.

                              Connect with Cristóbal on his website, Twitter (@c_valenzuelab), or GitHub (@cvalenzuela).


                              Favorite quotes
                              • "You don't care about the mathematical function that goes behind blurring [an image in Photoshop]. You just want the output of it—the creative output of moving a slider and having an effect applied to your video, your pixels, or content."
                              • "When you think about using algorithms to help you and assist you in the editing process, you need [to find] a metaphor or tool that would allow you to collaborate with those algorithms."
                              • "We need those new interfaces, metaphors, and systems. And that's all we're building, basically, those next-generation systems to help people create video and content."
                              • "When you take that picture, no one is saying, 'Oh, the AI is biased' or 'The AI worked or didn't work' or 'It showed me new creative possibilities.' It just works."
                              • "[Artificial intelligence] is a tool as any other tool. And so, in general, I think all the art tools that we're making will eventually reach that point where you're not too concerned about the systems you're using. You are just using it as a tool. And if it provides you with good results to explore the creative direction, you're going to use it again."

                              • Links
                                • NYU ITP
                                • Runway ML
                                • Made with Runway
                                • Runway's Generative Media
                                • Runway's Green Screen
                                • Making albums with AI from our backyard: Claire Evans, Jona Bechtolt, and Rob Kieswetter of YACHT
                                • Machine learning (concept)
                                • StyleGAN (machine learning algorithm)
                                • Building accessible tools for artists by Cris (article)
                                • Descript

                                  People mentioned
                                  • Alejandro Matamala Ortiz
                                  • Anastasis Germanidis
                                  • Mario Klingemann
                                    Chapters
                                    • 0:00 · Intro
                                    • 0:28 · What's new with Runway ML?
                                    • 1:44 · We need new interfaces
                                    • 4:23 · The freedom of being a startup
                                    • 4:55 · How's life?
                                    • 5:38 · Built with Runway
                                    • 6:55 · ML Lab and Sequel
                                    • 8:08 · Interfaces to control ML algorithms
                                    • 10:31 · Machine intelligence in design, art, and architecture
                                    • 13:14 · Creativity
                                    • 14:23 · Originality and bias
                                    • 16:06 · AI as a tool
                                    • 18:13 · Thanks

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

                                      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 over the planet with his show amazing and amusing audiences. In the last years, Hector has performed at some of the most important TV shows in his field at the largest cruise ships in the world and has toured with big international magic productions. He is looking forward to having you in the audience to show you his unique touch to the art of illusion.


                                      Favorite quotes
                                      • "I'm still that kid being entertained, watching magic videos and stuff I have never stopped being that kid. And I think it's going to work as long as I remain being that kid."
                                      • "[When] I went from Isla Mágica to cruise ships, I got bankrupt. I went into the biggest hole of my life, and that was the best thing that could ever happen to me."
                                      • "For the past 20 plus years, I've never been without performing for more than a couple of weeks and suddenly, I encountered myself being offstage for over a year, which is crazy!"
                                      • Links
                                        • Hector Ruiz Show
                                        • Hector's shop
                                        • Instagram
                                        • Pajaro Flama
                                        • Mr Hocus cool stuff for magic lovers by Hector
                                        • Isla Mágica
                                        • The Illusionists Live From Broadway
                                        • Chinese Linking Rings
                                          Detailed chapters
                                          • Intro. [0:00]
                                          • How did you get started with magic? [0:59]
                                          • How did you become a professional magician? [2:21]
                                          • What was your show like at Isla Mágica? [3:50]
                                          • What is unique about theme park shows? [5:05]
                                          • How has your show's length changed over time? [5:54]
                                          • How do you learn magic? [6:40]
                                          • What kind of shows were you doing outside of Isla Mágica? [7:54]
                                          • How do you stand out as a magician? [9:52]
                                          • Does the community have a system for tracking who owns which tricks? [11:45]
                                          • Do you have a mission you have set for yourself/your act? [13:26]
                                          • What was your lifestyle like before COVID? [14:47]
                                          • Society doesn't understand entertainers. [21:34]
                                          • What do you think your talent is? [22:32]
                                          • What things require an effort from you? [25:02]
                                          • How was it to learn more languages? [26:53]
                                          • How do you understand creativity? [28:22]
                                          • What would be the easiest way to see one of your shows? [33:02]
                                          • How has COVID-19 changed things for you? [33:37]
                                          • How many planes did you used to get regularly? [35:29]
                                          • What's going to be different now? [36:36]
                                          • Where can people find you online? [38:29]
                                          • What did you do in the year you couldn't do shows? [39:07]
                                          • Can you tell us about the business you started during the pandemic? [41:01]
                                          • How did your day to day look like before COVID? [43:01]
                                          • How do you disconnect? [44:07]
                                          • Is there anything specific about how you manage your time? [45:16]
                                          • Do you do any type of meditation? [47:03]
                                          • Do you think solitude plays an important part in your life? [47:46]
                                          • Being online can have a negative impact on productivity. [49:33]
                                          • How would you define success? [50:25]
                                          • Who do you see as successful? [51:05]
                                          • Has any recent purchase under $100 had a positive impact in your life? [52:36]
                                          • What books do you recommend to people who want to get into magic? [52:58]
                                          • What do you think of guessing/explaining the tricks? [54:12]
                                          • Can we see you perform a card trick? [54:48]
                                          • Do you have any other message for the audience? [56:18]
                                          • Closing thoughts. [58:47]
                                          • Chapters
                                            • 0:00 · Intro
                                            • 0:59 · Magic
                                            • 13:26 · Being an entertainer
                                            • 21:34 · Talent, effort, and creativity
                                            • 33:37 · A year on pause
                                            • 43:01 · Lifestyle and time management
                                            • 47:46 · Solitude and productivity
                                            • 50:25 · Success
                                            • 52:36 · A deck of cards
                                            • 54:12 · Magic trick
                                            • 56:18 · A message
                                            • 58:47 · Closing thoughts

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                                              1 hr
                                            • #47: Bytes — Intro

                                              Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Aziz Barbar introduce the Bytes series—concepts at the intersection of digital technology and culture in a language we can all understand—and talk about cloud storage.


                                              Listen to this episode to learn more about the series, its name and format, co-host Aziz Barbar, and what's coming.

                                              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.


                                              Links
                                              • GPG encryption
                                              • Dropbox Paper
                                              • M1 Macbook Pro
                                              • StyleGAN
                                              • Pix2Pix
                                                Chapters
                                                • 0:00 · Start
                                                • 0:46 · Intro
                                                • 1:44 · Format
                                                • 2:35 · Name
                                                • 3:01 · Topics
                                                • 3:49 · Enter Aziz Barbar
                                                • 5:06 · Saving the files you print
                                                • 5:59 · Digital storage
                                                • 8:37 · Future topics
                                                • 11:33 · Outro

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                                                  The cover image is a derivative from the photo Internals of a 2.5-inch laptop hard disk drive by Evan-Amos.


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                                                  12 min
                                                • #46: Luis Ruiz Padrón — Sketching, Writing, and Teaching Through The Lens of Architecture

                                                  Luis Ruiz Padrón on the creative process behind his sketches, writing, and publications, seeing the world as an Urban Sketcher, identity, teaching, technology, life, success, and more.


                                                  Luis Ruiz Padrón is a PhD architect. He teaches Architectural Graphic Expression at the University of Málaga; drawings of cityscapes is his main interest as a scholar but also his first source of pleasure, sketching them himself.

                                                  He belongs to the Urban Sketchers global community and is the founder of the local group in his city.

                                                  He collaborates weekly as a columnist in newspapers and is the author of several books.


                                                  Favorite quotes
                                                  • "Non-linear is a [good word to describe the creative] process. John Berger wrote that It's like digging a tunnel in search of light, you don't know how [the work] is going to turn out at the end, but you go forth. It's like a struggle."
                                                  • "Nuccio Ordine wrote The Usefulness of The Useless. You have a background with images and textures that apparently are not related to each other, but suddenly there's a spark and you connect things."
                                                  • "If you see the tiny dot we are in the middle of the universe, it makes you feel more relaxed about what you do and who you are."
                                                  • "We are a social animal. It's incredible when you perceive a smile directed at you by, perhaps, someone at a store or something. It can change your whole afternoon."
                                                  • "Trust your eyes and not what you have in mind. Be free. [Have a clean] look into things so that they don't condition your sight, your perception of things."
                                                  • "The possibility of being in contact with someone on the other side of the world, just in this exact moment, is a miracle."
                                                  • "Hunting is [having] a plan to discover things. I prefer fishing, [where] you just throw the net [and] something will come up. I think [this is how] I do things."
                                                  • "When you sketch you understand what other sketchers did. […] What decisions they made, where they cheated. But they cheated to tell the truth. It's [a] contradiction. Sometimes you have to [cheat] to be honest."
                                                  • Books
                                                    • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
                                                    • The Usefulness of The Useless by Nuccio Ordine
                                                    • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
                                                    • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
                                                    • Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
                                                    • A la pintura: Poema del color y la línea by Rafael Alberti
                                                      Links
                                                      • LuisRuiz.es
                                                      • Diario SUR and La Opinión publications by Luis
                                                      • Drawings and books by Luis
                                                      • Castillo de Gibralfaro, Málaga
                                                      • Loving Books
                                                      • Urban Sketchers
                                                        Sketchbook tools
                                                        • Stillman & Birn Alpha Series sketchbook
                                                        • Sakura Micron Pigma pens
                                                        • White Nights watercolors
                                                        • Talens sketchbooks
                                                        • Hahnemühle sketchbooks
                                                        • Concertina accordion sketchbook
                                                          People mentioned
                                                          • Daniel Natoli
                                                          • Panagiotis Michalatos
                                                          • Gabi Campanario (books)
                                                          • Gerard Michel
                                                          • Florian Afflerbach (books)
                                                          • Cristina Urdiales
                                                          • Alejandro Villén and Maria Corredera
                                                          • Rafael Alberti
                                                          • Leonardo da Vinci
                                                          • Albrecht Dürer
                                                          • Bob Dylan
                                                          • John Berger
                                                          • Stephen Jay Gould
                                                          • Daniel Kahneman (books)
                                                          • Yuval Noah Harari (books)
                                                          • Seth Godin (books)
                                                            Detailed chapters
                                                            • 00:25 · What do you try to convey with your work?
                                                            • 01:54 · Writing by hand compared to typing.
                                                            • 04:21 · The process is non-linear.
                                                            • 05:32 · It's a blank space.
                                                            • 07:26 · How do you manage to stay happy knowing you may not be progressing in some areas?
                                                            • 08:20 · How do you define where being a writer, sketcher, and teacher draw their lines?
                                                            • 11:18 · Do you seek out other experiences you can relate your field to?
                                                            • 11:53 · What's is one of the projects you have enjoyed the most?
                                                            • 13:27 · Did you ever imagine you would ever be where you are in architecture?
                                                            • 14:24 · How do you define yourself?
                                                            • 16:08 · How did you start sketching and what is Urban Sketchers?
                                                            • 17:55 · How did you get introduced to Urban Sketchers?
                                                            • 20:25 · What is the importance of sketching in the actual place?
                                                            • 22:01 · What do you do differently sketching at home versus sketching on the street?
                                                            • 23:48 · When did you start drawing and when did you start sketching?
                                                            • 27:33 · Why is it important to carry a sketchbook with you?
                                                            • 29:47 · Can you comment on what it was like to start and how it felt the first time you went out sketching?
                                                            • 30:59 · Where was the first place that you went sketching?
                                                            • 31:23 · Do you have somewhere you would like to go sketching if you could?
                                                            • 32:03 · Who has been somebody you consider influential on the way you sketch?
                                                            • 33:28 · Are there any other people that left a mark on you?
                                                            • 34:18 · Would you highlight one aspect of sketching you really enjoy?
                                                            • 34:46 · Does the sketchbook help you understand things about the city?
                                                            • 37:37 · How do deadlines change your creative process?
                                                            • 41:14 · Can you talk about your writing process?
                                                            • 45:31 · We tend to repeat the same things.
                                                            • 47:57 · How did you publish your first book?
                                                            • 50:04 · How does exhibiting your work feel?
                                                            • 53:18 · What work of yours do you think of as most successful?
                                                            • 54:13 · How does it feel to have a new website?
                                                            • 55:03 · What changed after you were able to publish online?
                                                            • 57:22 · How would you summarize yourself?
                                                            • 58:14 · Where else can you be found?
                                                            • 58:50 · Why did you start teaching?
                                                            • 1:00:07 · What are the hardest things your students have to learn?
                                                            • 1:00:48 · What advice would you get people trying to learn?
                                                            • 1:02:20 · How does being online transform your work?
                                                            • 1:03:30 · What is your relationship with digital technology?
                                                            • 1:04:14 · What piece of software makes your life easier?
                                                            • 1:04:56 · If you could send a message to the world what would it be?
                                                            • 1:06:14 · Is there anything that makes it easier to do your creative work now that you didn't have before?
                                                            • 1:06:37 · What would you do if you didn't really need money?
                                                            • 1:06:53 · What would you stop doing if you had the money?
                                                            • 1:07:30 · Are you comfortable with solitude and boredom?
                                                            • 1:07:56 · Is there any time that you think about death?
                                                            • 1:08:20 · How does thinking about these things inform what you do?
                                                            • 1:08:59 · What do you think distracts you?
                                                            • 1:09:52 · What do you do to disconnect?
                                                            • 1:10:29 · What role does the city play in your daily routine?
                                                            • 1:11:56 · Is there any routine you have for note-taking?
                                                            • 1:13:23 · How do you define success?
                                                            • 1:13:57 · What's your go-to gear for sketching today?
                                                            • 1:14:38 · Sketchbook brands.
                                                            • 1:15:29 · Pens and brush brands.
                                                            • 1:16:02 · Do you write by hand?
                                                            • 1:16:42 · What's next for you?
                                                            • 1:17:28 · What was your thesis?
                                                            • 1:19:00 · How does an architect like you evolve into doing something more interesting and enriching?
                                                            • Chapters
                                                              • 0:00 · Intro
                                                              • 0:25 · Identity
                                                              • 16:08 · Sketching
                                                              • 37:37 · Writing and publishing
                                                              • 58:50 · Teaching
                                                              • 1:02:20 · Technology
                                                              • 1:04:56 · Life and death
                                                              • 1:13:57 · Tools
                                                              • 1:16:42 · What's next?
                                                              • 1:19:00 · Evolution

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                                                              • #45: Habits — Looping Playlists

                                                                A practice to focus by listening to the same songs, over and over again.


                                                                Chapters
                                                                • 0:00 · The compact disc and streaming services
                                                                • 0:56 · The walkman and repeat mode
                                                                • 2:51 · Looping playlists, the practice
                                                                • 8:09 · Repeat one
                                                                • 9:38 · My playlists
                                                                • 10:35 · Focus Zero
                                                                • 11:07 · Focus A
                                                                • 12:14 · Focus B
                                                                • 13:56 · I'd love to hear from you

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                                                                  15 min

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