Sitemap - 2024 - Scenes with Simon

2024 Newsletter Retro: Changing Gears, Storytelling, and Touching Grass

My Favourite Things of 2024

Maps, Networked Sculptures, and Markets as Medium

The Creator’s Power of Warping Reality and the Audience’s Power of Accepting the Strange

The Red Button At Customs

Banana Art Politics, Old Earth Vibes, and AI Art Turing Tests

World Computer Sculpture Gardens, Factorio, and Music as Daily Bread

Gearing Down

From Social LLM Agents with Wallets to Self-Owning Forest Deodands

Nouns, Delivery At Dawn, and Collectible Media

The Recipe of Subtle Foreshadowing

To Being A Little More Dazed And Confused

Owning the Memes of Production

Finishing The Thought

Act 2 is About Context, Not Conflict

Zoning Your Layer 2: Scaling your Blockchain with Lessons from Urbanism

The Artification of Culture

What is Programmable IP Licensing Good For?

A Fan’s Mega-IP Playbook

Digital Excavation, Preservations, and Museums

Unique Constituencies: From Hong Kong to Blockchains

The Audience is Present

Evaluating Prediction Markets

A Checkpoint on Generative Art (in NFTs)

Lore as a Third Place

The AI Dreamcore Meme Extended Universe

On Novel Drafts (and Trails)

Media Saturation & Having Media Speak For Us

Protocol Thresholds and The Days of Two Noons

Paying Drivers To Not Drive: Congestion Pricing Inspired by Ethereum's Blockspace

Checkpoints & Savepoints

Determining Story Length with the Bag of Stakes

On Voting, Legislative Complexity, and Legitimacy

The I in Will and Team in Testament

A Framework for Good, Great, And Timeless Stories

Frameworks for Uncoordination

The Garden of a Messy, Protocolized Rewilding vs the Fragile Monocultured Centralized Lawn

The Eclipse and the Reclamation of Looking at the Same Thing

Where To Start Your Story

Memecoins and Crypto's Moral Compass

It's All Adaptations

On Being Prolific

What is Your System Prompt?

Maps and The Value Of Being Lost In The Act Of Creation

Taking Back Streets: Documenting Barcelona

Understanding Film Tax Write-Offs & Some Solutions

A World's Attempts to Understand Itself

Who's Changing: Me, My Culture, or the World?

The Human Medium is the Human Message

On Hardness and The Social Institutions of Crypto

On Speculation and Optimism's Recent $100m Retroactive Public Goods Grants

No, AI Probably Won't Kill Books