Archive - Scenes with Simon

March 2025

From AI Ghibli to Rebuilding our Tribes

Also: Stoop Coffee, Antimemetics, and Music Industry Infrastructure

Mar 30 •

Simon de la Rouviere

The Process of Making Something Heavy

Also: Space Admin, Red-Chip Art, and Deepmind Disney Droids

Mar 23 •

Simon de la Rouviere

In Public With The Second Audience

Also: AI Poetry & Taste, Balatro Timeline, and Story Openings

Mar 16 •

Simon de la Rouviere

Digital Memories: Hoarder? Pruner? Deleter?

Also: Early Blockchain Music Days, Teenagers and Music, and Constraints in Goals

Mar 9 •

Simon de la Rouviere

On Chapters In Narrative and Life

Also: Resurgence of Sincerity, Decentralized Chore Protocols, and The Rehearsal S2

Mar 2 •

Simon de la Rouviere

February 2025

On Certainty and Complexity

Also: Metalabel Book Publishing, Massive Minecraft Worlds, and Ranked Choice Voting in 2024

Feb 23 •

Simon de la Rouviere

Exoplanets, Protocolized Fiction, and Weirder Fantasy Maps

A shorter newsletter for this week as I’ve been mostly focused on getting as much writing done as possible.

Feb 16 •

Simon de la Rouviere

The Peak Size of Agentic AI Mega Firms

Also: Magic, Book Sculptures, and Spacetime Maps

Feb 9 •

Simon de la Rouviere

Post-Modernity in Fast Networked Cities and Slow Physical Worlds

The fast and slow worlds of 2700

Feb 2 •

Simon de la Rouviere

January 2025

Posting Less, Brooklyns of Everywhere, and Simulated Sports Broadcasting Rights

Also: Severance, Country Grunge, and Running Novelists

Jan 26 •

Simon de la Rouviere

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