About
About Me
- My name is Grant Nestor. I am 23 years-old from Santa Barbara, CA.
- I am a recent graduate of USC’s Marshall School of Business, concentration in Entrepreneurial Studies.
- I am currently living in Los Angeles. I am working for Factual, a web start-up whose offering, I believe, will lead the bottom-up effort toward a semantic web.
- I want to do great things with technology…I see the extreme positives and extreme negatives of technology’s influence on today’s world. Fortunately, and unfortunately, ceteris paribus, this progress is only going to accelerate with time. Consequently, our wits must keep pace with this progress, in all areas of human endeavor (political, economic, sociocultural, ecological, etc.). I want to work my ass off, cultivate a supreme intellect and creative dexterity, and through design, contribute to projects that make life better.
- But ultimately, I am an abstraction layer composed of many less abstract systems that I don’t understand. So, all I can say with certainty, is that I am here now.
Interests
crowd sourcing technology design camping Google guitar GOOD Media physics art Max/MSP music mashups TED Apple artificial intelligence Exploratorium computers the Internet Canonical Google VoIP rock climbing MIT Mozilla digital music surfing academics programming 3d web O’Reilly data visualization biking semantic web steel pedal guitar IDEO Creative Commons Arduino
Media Lab Processing generative art DIY SparkFun goodness Wikipedia Science Channel collective intelligence MAKE science electronics social enterprise
Media Lab Processing generative art DIY SparkFun goodness Wikipedia Science Channel collective intelligence MAKE science electronics social enterprise
Currently Reading
- A Guide for the Perplexed, by E.F. Schumacher
- Levels of Knowing and Existence: Studies in General Semantics, by Harry L. Weinberg
- Wholeness and the Implicate Order, by David Bohm
- Agile Web Development, by Sam Ruby
- Getting Started with Arduino, by Massimo Banzi
- Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Artists and Designers, by Casey Reas & Ben Fry
- Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with Processing, by Ben Fry
- Good
- Seed
- Technology Review
- What Is Enlightenment
Recently Digged
- Startl Seeks Builders of Mobile Learning Apps
- A Monster Max for Live Patch Slices, Dices, and Controls Ableton
- Streamgraph code ported to JavaScript
- Real Sound Synthesis, Now in the Browser; Possible New Standard?
- SimpleGeo is the Location Database API We’ve Wanted
- Teenage Engineering Reveals Surprisingly Simple Sequencer for OP-1
- Jazari: Utterly Brilliant Robotic Percussion
- Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 Instrument: Hands-on, Videos, Why it’s Different
- Device connected to tongue designed to help blind perceive images
Recently Bookmarked
- jitouch 2 – Multi-Touch Extension for MacBook Multi-Touch Trackpad & Magic Mouse
Recently Scrobbled
Recently YouTubed
- Google Chrome Speed Tests
- Ohm Studio real time collaborative music workstation
- Synthesiser Patel – Look Around You
- BooneOakley.com – Home Page
- Billy Joel – The Longest Time
Recently Tweeted
- gnestor: Human-powered car http://bit.ly/9Dog4H
- gnestor: Clogs – 5/4 http://bit.ly/cxNp4o #badass #reallybadass
- gnestor: History of The Beatles as told by their hair http://bit.ly/94SYwQ
- gnestor: The Social Network: upcoming movie about Mark Zuckerberg and the making of Facebook http://bit.ly/alM92k
- gnestor: How many chickens are killed in the US per day? 25 million. How many? Imagine driving on a road covered in dead chickens, 676 miles of them.
- gnestor: Mambo Monday http://bit.ly/clDyPG
- gnestor: How does a seed turn into a tree? The tree inhales CO2, kicks out the O (with help from the sun), & keeps the C. http://bit.ly/aRJEJt
- gnestor: 14 Phenomenal Wonders of the Natural World http://bit.ly/aNODH2
- gnestor: boy, do i love data
- gnestor: Atlas: a visual development environment for building Cappuccino web apps http://bit.ly/c7I429 #280north #sofa #wisest
- gnestor: The National – The Thrilling of Claire http://bit.ly/annPWM
- gnestor: Clogs: an avante garde musical project featuring The National’s guitarist Bryce Dessner and violist Padma Newsome http://amzn.to/asKdem
- gnestor: Do Glass Pipes, Incense Prove Teens Are Practicing Shamanism? http://onion.com/97Kryq
- gnestor: Seedbomb vending machines for greener cities, based in LA http://bit.ly/bQin0Q
- gnestor: Sencha Touch: a very nice tool for building web apps that seem like native iPhone, iPad and Android apps #html5 #css3 http://bit.ly/cwAwfe
- gnestor: I tried Chipootle’s "Garden Blend" meat substitute and it’s delicious http://bit.ly/dzoFpp #stoked
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