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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鈥檚 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聽adammenges.com, and reach out to him at聽adam@adammenges.com聽and聽+17204840285.
Books
- The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
Links
- HyperCard
- Lobe
- The Origins of Lobe - Adam鈥檚 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鈥檚 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 路 Introduction
- 02:45 路 Visual programming
- 07:40 路 Grasshopper
- 11:14 路 Extendability
- 13:19 路 Lobe's visual programming interface
- 14:31 路 The role of visual programming
- 17:00 路 HyperCard
- 18:11 路 Accessibility
- 20:52 路 Making programming easier
- 23:45 路 Artificial intelligence for creatives
- 24:27 路 Polarization and human-machine collaboration
- 28:12 路 Pair programming with AI
- 31:39 路 Software for gamers
- 35:45 路 Healthy social experiences
- 36:27 路 Hindsight
- 37:00 路 Startup success and team dynamics
- 39:11 路 Macro and micro focus
- 41:38 路 Analysis paralysis
- 43:18 路 Routines
- 45:09 路 Ranking the news with AI
- 48:27 路 Staying in touch with friends
- 50:40 路 Zoom fatigue
- 53:35 路 COVID
- 55:29 路 Bitcoin
- 57:43 路 Hacking NFTs
- 01:01:10 路 A crypto use case
- 01:03:15 路 Social FinTech
- 01:06:45 路 Advice for young people
- 01:08:59 路 Happiness
- 01:10:30 路 Connect with Adam
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