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#2: Putting More Ideas Into The Things We Make with Zach Kron
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Duration: 01:09:23
Publish Date: 2018-01-01 09:00:00
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Putting More Ideas Into The Things We Make with Zach Kron

In this episode, Nono talks to Zach Kron ([@zachkron](http://twitter.com/zachkron))—senior product manager at Autodesk—about how new digital tools allow designers to work (and wether these tools make our lives simpler), and about life habits, boredom, constant connectivity and disconnection, digital clutter, and more. > Listen to this episode on [iTunes](http://gettingsimple.com/podcast/itunes), [Castbox](http://gettingsimple.com/podcast/castbox) or [Stitcher](http://gettingsimple.com/podcast/stitcher). Zach describes his daily job as "Banging digital tools with a stick to make them break." Since 2007, Zach has been involved in the research and implementation of software that drives real world building projects and democratizes advanced design practices. Before joining Autodesk—where he is a senior product manager–Zach worked as a designer in several Boston-area architectural offices on projects ranging in scale from furniture to bridges, and has taught at Autodesk, at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture). You can find Zach on Twitter at [@ZachKron](http://twitter.com/ZachKron) and writing at [DynamoBIM.org](http://dynamobim.org). ### Episode Notes - [Dynamo](http://dynamobim.org/) is an open source visual programming environment for design. - [Red Mars](http://amzn.com/0553560735) by Kim Stanley Robinson. - [Quakers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements. (We talk about the ability to sit quietly alone or with others.) - [Haiku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku) is a very short form of Japanese poetry. - [Bad Monkeys](https://www.badmonkeys.net/) is a group of design technologists spread around the world, working to change the AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) industry "one workflow at a time." - [Bread & Puppet Theater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_Puppet_Theater) is a politically radical puppet theater founded by Peter Schumann, active since 1960s, where bread and theater belong together, currently based in Glover, Vermont. - [The Cheap Art Manifesto](http://breadandpuppet.org/cheap-art/why-cheap-art-manifesto), Bread and Puppet Glover, Vermont, 1984. - [Walter Benjamin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. - [Shapeways](https://www.shapeways.com/) is a 3D printing service and marketplace. - [Style transfer](https://medium.com/data-science-group-iitr/artistic-style-transfer-with-convolutional-neural-network-7ce2476039fd) is "the technique of recomposing images in the style of other images." - [The Resistance is Handmade](https://gatherhereonline.com/collections/the-resistance-is-handmade) is a project by Victoria and printed at Albertine Pres by Gather Here. - [Designalyze](http://designalyze.com/) is a podcast (and website) by Brian Ringley ([@brianringley](http://twitter.com/brianringley)) and Zach Downey ([@zdowney](http://twitter.com/Zdowney)). - [The Diamond Age](http://amzn.com/0553380966) by Neal Stephenson. - [Buildz](http://buildz.blogspot.com). Practical notes for making impractical things by Zach, 2009-2015. - We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. —Orson Wells > Listen to this episode on [iTunes](http://gettingsimple.com/podcast/itunes), [Castbox](http://gettingsimple.com/podcast/castbox) or [Stitcher](http://gettingsimple.com/podcast/stitcher).
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