#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 adam@adammenges.com and +17204840285.

• The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander

• 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

• 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

• Kyle Steinfeld
• Jordan Singer

• 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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