#70: Zach Kron — Art, Creativity, and Personal Evolution

Zach Kron, senior product manager at Autodesk, on making and selling pen plotter art, evolving with your projects, capturing ideas, and remote work. Zach is a Senior Product Manager at Autodesk, a global provider of design software. Since 2007, Zach has been involved in the research and implementation of digital tools that drive real world building projects and increase the availability of advanced design practices. While his focus is on making software, Zach also participates in teaching, hands-on workshops, hackathons, and all other forms of design technology community development. You can find Zach at Buildz.info . Zach’s Art store Blog First podcast appearance Favorite quotes “The process is fun, and more than the actual editing process is the process of ideating the best workflow that you can get.” —Nono “We aren't really good at having something that you do just for the sake of it. We need to have the side effect.” —Zach “But you have to remember that I didn't have to put on pants today.” —Zach Books Formulations by Andrew Witt Systems Upgrade by Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah The Information by James Clear Links Pen plotter art Chiaroscuro (art) Dynamo and Revit (software) Adobe Podcast (formerly Project Shasta) In Seth Godin’s words, “funktionlust is a German word that describes the love of doing something merely for the sake of doing it.” Social capital (concept) People mentioned Jose Luis García del Castillo (podcast) Andrew Witt (podcast) Rev Dan Catt (@revdancatt) Dana De Filippi - DanamoBIM Bill Debevc - YouTube channel Seth Godin (author) Steven Pressfield (author) Lex Fridman (podcast) Neil Stephenson (author) Alice Cooper (author) Cal Newport (author) Jeff Koons (artist) Chapters 00:00 · Intro 01:00 · Evolution of this podcast 09:46 · Freediving 12:16 · Capturing ideas 13:25 · People are different in person 15:54 · Evolving with your projects 20:10 · Connecting with your audience 21:20 · Live vs. offline 26:19 · The creative medium 30:00 · Selling art 38:46 · Pen plotter art 46:34 · Making art with Dynamo 50:31 · Art 01:02:53 · Funktionlust 01:05:09 · Remote work 01:11:54 · Outro I'd love to hear from you. Submit a question about this or any previous episodes. Join the Discord community . Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast . Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

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#70: Zach Kron — Art, Creativity, and Personal Evolution is an episode from The Getting Simple Podcast by Nono Martínez Alonso.

This episode is 01:13:54 long.

This episode was published on Dec 7, 2022.

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