Scenes with Simon

‘Save The Cat’ is About Agency

Sunday Edition #23: Also, Getty vs Stability, Planet-Sized Cities, and Pluribus

Nov 9 • 

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UMG Deals and Generative AI in Music

Sunday Edition #22: Also, Amtrak, Lemons, and Revisions, Revisions, Revisions

Nov 2 • 

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October 2025

Sunday Edition #21 - Dissecting Substack’s Inverted Revenue Curve

Also: The Streets of Queens, One Battle After Another, and Night Tapes (again)

Oct 26 • 

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Sunday Edition #20 - Play in Storytelling

Also: History of the Braai, The Lobster, and Naming Conventions

Oct 19 • 

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Sunday Edition #19 - On The Crisis of Cool

Also: Meditation, Gambling, and Jadu Heart

Oct 12 • 

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Sunday Edition #18 - Social Media Use Really Is Declining

Also: Mass Stablecoins and Burning Money as Art, Ocean Vuong, and Hades 2

Oct 5 • 

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September 2025

Sunday Edition #17 - Too Much Information and the Loss of Dynamism

Also: Rifts by Hashrunner, Hades 2, and Metalcore Shoegaze

Sep 28 • 

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Sunday Edition #16 - Social Systems Scaling

Also: History of Japanese Urbanism, Art Shows, and Adolescence

Sep 21 • 

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Sunday Edition #15 - The Heterotopia of Hypographic Media

Also: Sami Angawi's House, Half-Marathon #3, K-Pop Demon Hunters, and Ocean Vuong

Sep 14 • 

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Sunday Edition #14 - Protocol Design in Urbanism

Also: "Bullshit" jobs aren't "Bullshit", AI Boyfriends, and Sofia Kourtesis

Sep 7 • 

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August 2025

Sunday Edition #13 - Co-Composting Collaboration

Also: Exit Through the Casino, Protocol Futurology, and new Big Wild Album

Aug 31 • 

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A Vision of LLM-Native Media

Conversations: When Kernels and Agents Combine

Aug 28 • 

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