Sitemap - 2025 - Scenes with Simon

Things I Enjoyed In 2025 and Looking Ahead to 2026

The Critique of the Algocene Through Beeple's Regular Animals and Intimate Systems

Starmirror, Charli XCX, and What We Are Really Creating

Interruption Nostalgia

Aesthetics Over Time

What To Do About Distribution

‘Save The Cat’ is About Agency

UMG Deals and Generative AI in Music

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

Sunday Edition #20 - Play in Storytelling

Sunday Edition #19 - On The Crisis of Cool

Sunday Edition #18 - Social Media Use Really Is Declining

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

Sunday Edition #16 - Social Systems Scaling

Sunday Edition #15 - The Heterotopia of Hypographic Media

Sunday Edition #14 - Protocol Design in Urbanism

Sunday Edition #13 - Co-Composting Collaboration

A Vision of LLM-Native Media

Sunday Edition #12 - Rethinking Cinema (by Making It More Communal)

Sunday Edition #11 - The First Ten to Fifty Pages

Sunday Edition #10 - On The Decline of Conscientiousness

Sunday Edition #9 - Building Better Courtyards

A (Sober) Reflection on a Decade of Ethereum

Sunday Edition #8 - Translations and Ekphrastic Writing on Digital Art

Sunday Edition #7 - Solaris (1972) vs Solaris (2002)

Sunday Edition #6 - Modifying and Generating Memories

Sunday Edition #5 - On Ambition

Sunday Edition #4 - The Discourse of Literary Fiction

Ego as Venue

Sunday Edition #3 - Artist Corporations

Sunday Edition #2 - A Review of Abundance, Mario Kart World, and Office-to-Residential Conversions

My 500km Walk of Acceptance Alongside Visions of the Future

The Sunday Edition #1 - Hi, I'm back. Also, Some Housekeeping

On Walking

The Therapy in ChatGPT and Me

From AI Ghibli to Rebuilding our Tribes

The Process of Making Something Heavy

In Public With The Second Audience

Digital Memories: Hoarder? Pruner? Deleter?

On Chapters In Narrative and Life

On Certainty and Complexity

Exoplanets, Protocolized Fiction, and Weirder Fantasy Maps

The Peak Size of Agentic AI Mega Firms

Post-Modernity in Fast Networked Cities and Slow Physical Worlds

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

Too Many Cameras and the US TikTok Ban

Congestion Pricing & Making People Feel Your Systems

Time Off vs Creative Relaxing