Hi Friends—
Today I bring you an episode with Illusionist Héctor Ruiz on getting started and standing out as a magician, how COVID-19 changed his world, talent, effort, creativity, success, entrepreneurship, and more.
Listen to "Héctor Ruiz — Magic and The Art of Illusionism"
You can also watch this episode on video. =)
Hi Friends—
Today I bring you an episode with Luis Ruiz Padrón on the creative process behind his writing, sketches, and publications, seeing the world as an Urban Sketcher, identity, teaching, technology, life, success, and more.
I'm excited to announce that we're producing a full video version of this conversation—recorded by Daniel Natoli—to be released within the next weeks and that we'll be rolling out full transcripts of all episodes sometime in 2021.
I hope you enjoy this episode (and its detailed show notes) as much as I did.
Listen to: "Luis Ruiz Padrón — Writing, Sketching, and Teaching Through The Lens of Architecture"
Hi Friends—
Today I bring you an episode with James Melouney and Selene Urban on how to get started with meditation, self-discovery, building trust and connection with your audience through a humane and authentic message, and key learnings from their entrepreneurial journey.
We also talked about different meditation and breathing techniques, marketing and automation tools, the struggles of having your own business, and how James and Selene approach work and life.
I truly hope you enjoy it.
Hi Friends!
Right before the turn of the year, I bring you a brand new episode that opens up the ALGO series—conversations between Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo y López and myself on topics such as teaching, coding, machine learning, and creativity.
It's been three years since I last interviewed Jose Luis, and I enjoyed learning how his life changed when he became a Doctor of Design, began teaching at Harvard, and started live-streaming his lectures online.
We also discuss the guilt of postponing things, the difficulties of delegating tasks and micro-management, the fear of shipping creative work, and lessons learned after forty podcast episodes.
Please enjoy.
Hi, Friends!
For the last episode of Getting Simple, Roberto Molinos highlights the benefits of being patient and embracing uncertainty and shares a series of techniques, theories, and books that can help you rethink your company, market your products, and have a 4-day workweek.
Listen to: "Roberto Molinos — Plan for Failure: The Peace of Mind of Being Patient and Antifragile"
Hi Friends!
For the last episode of Getting Simple, I had the chance to talk to Microsoft's Adam Menges, former employee at Apple and founder at Lobe.ai, a company that helps people build intelligence into their apps by making it simple and understandable.
Tune in to discover Adam's unconventional education and career, why he strives to have death present in his day-to-day, and his life hacks and daily routines, including custom-made clothing, note-taking and file-management workflows, meditation, and much more.
Listen to: "Adam Menges — Lobe: Machine Learning Made Simple" ↗︎
For the latest episode of Getting Simple, I had a great conversation with director Daniel Natoli on his experience making Sisyphus, Getting Simple's first short film, which we are releasing online today.
It's easy to fall into the trap of mindlessly repeating the same routine over and over again. Every once in a while, we need to be reminded to stop and reflect; To meditate on whether what you’re doing makes sense; To find out how to get out of the loop and do what gives you joy. There’s no need to measure how productive each of your actions is—some of it should just be play.
That's exactly what, as I understand, happens in the Greek myth of Sisyphus, in which a man is condemned to repeat a useless task day after day.
In 2020, I'll bring you new episodes dissecting tactics, tools, and habits from insightful guests and from my own experiments to live a more meaningful, creative, and simple life.
Today, you can listen to a conversation with technology whisperer Tatjana Dzambazova recorded among the trees of Mill Valley, California. Tanja inspires and connects people—myself included—as she spreads ideas to make the world a better place.
Enjoy this episode on asking the right questions to avoid wasting talent, thinking different, and the myth of a better life.
Listen to "Tatjana Dzambazova — The Art of Asking The Right Questions"
? A month from today, I had a conversation with Matt Jezyk, who recently left Autodesk to go work with the the group that designs and builds the car and lithium battery "Gigafactories" at Tesla. I can't express how much I enjoyed talking to Matt.
? Matt talks about his rituals to slow down and stay afloat amongst all the things competing for your attention; embracing change and automation; techniques to be more creative; the rationale behind his ten-year life cycles; why he just transitioned from Autodesk to Tesla; and a lot more.
Take a look at the show notes and where to listen.
This summer, right before leaving Cambridge, I was extremely lucky to interview Ben Fry for the podcast at Fathom Information Design, in Boston, Massachusetts. Ben, together with Casey Reas, co-created the "Processing" programming environment back in 2001 (that's seventeen years ago), an open-source tool still in active development and used daily by thousands of designers, artists, researchers, engineers, students, and professionals from a wide variety of disciplines. Processing was a side-project Ben was working on while writing his thesis on Computational Information Design at the MIT Media Lab, which led him to found Fathom Information Design later on, a studio in Boston focused on understanding complicated data problems.
