Sitemap - 2023 - Scenes with Simon

Year 1 of Scenes with Simon: A Retro and What's Next for 2024

Some of My Favourite Things I Enjoyed in 2023

Walkable Blockchains: Metaphors Between Blockchains And Urbanism

Hang Outs and One Lanes Out

Prediction Markets as Conversations

AI, Process Art, and Aftermovies

Storytelling Entropy & Fandoms

Seeing SCP as a Narrative Protocol

Undefined Neighbourhoods and the Power of Naming Things

A 3 Year Retro On My Self-Published Debut Novel

Inside Andreessen's Techno-Optimism Manifesto: NPC Meme as Ideology

On Marriage and Patience

The Inevitable Narrative Oozification of Expanded Media Universes

NFTs Can't Die

Running My 1st Half Marathon alongside The Passing of the Dragon

Owning The Conversations: Ghost Watchers, Barbie, And Publishing in 2023

Why We Like Pirates: On the Depth and Breadth of Boat Stories

Retreating to Digital Villages From The Algorithmic Scenes

Past Lives and The Boys of Summer

The Hidden Magic In Our Built Environment

Three Tomorrows & The Creative Journey

Token-Curated Registries in 2023 and A Problem With Price Signals

Let Readers Choose Their Format

In the Pursuit of Creative Perfection, When Is It Enough?

AI, The Strikes, and The Meta Marketing of Barbenheimer

The Prisoner's Dilemma of USA Restaurant Fees

A Deep Protocolization of Mutual Credit

Belonging and Understanding Through Context, AI Art, & Modern Art Critique

Reddit's Blackout and Giving Up Web 2.0 for Touch-Grass Tuesdays

Opaque Streamer Residuals vs Transparent NFT Royalties

From Home Owners Associations to Gravity Wells

Persistence & Completing One Unbroken Journey To All Countries Without Flying

The Storytelling Trick Hidden Inside Zelda

On Luck, Love, and a Viral Time-Travel Romance With Bigolas Dickolas

Tending The Gardens of Creativity

Specificity, Vibes, and The Complexity Limit of AI Creativity

Traditional Publishing vs Self-Publishing. It's Context Turtles All The Way Down

Wrestling with Genres and the Communities Inside Them

Star Wars Celebration as a Fan, with Family, and as a Writer.

Adding Provenance and Giving Life to LLM Bunnies

Putting Dark Forest into Eve Online

You Can't Automate Authenticity

Stop Smoking The Algorithms

Why NFT Royalties Matter

The AI Backrooms of Literature

The Involuntary Suspension of Disbelief towards Sydney and Pandora

Attachment Styles to Time

So Long, and Thanks for All the Training Data

Scenes with Simon #3 - The Many-Fingered Conundrums on Detecting & Banning AI

Scenes with Simon #2 - AI Lawsuits, Mirrors, and Free Homes in Japan

Scenes with Simon #1 - Core Core, IP Dragons, and Downtowns

Coming soon