New Sunday Edition is out! On The Crisis of Cool. Enjoy! sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

New Sunday Edition! Talking about social media decline, stablecoins, Ocean Vuong, Hades 2, and more fun things. Enjoy! sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

New Sunday Edition is out. Enjoy! :) Sunday Edition #17 - Too Much Information and the Loss of Dynamism sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Sunday Edition #16 - Social Systems Scaling sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Sunday Edition #15 - The Heteropia of Hypographic Media. Enjoy! (Also, most eclectic newsletter yet? Also contains comments on K-Pop Demon Hunters and Ocean Vuong 😂) sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Just in time before the US Open Men's Final. Enjoy the latest Sunday Edition! :) sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Big thanks to Simon for highlighting my 'Exit through the Casino' post in his newsletter this week. "Jay is one of my favourite linguistics wranglers, coming up or arriving at terms which so neatly encapsulate concepts or ideas." 🤗

Sunday Edition #13 - Co-Composting Collaboration: sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi... Enjoy!

Instead of just seeing generative AI as a way to shortcut process, I tried sketching a vision for what it might actually be good for in terms of its medium. It's not a replacement of media we know and love. Written in collab. sceneswithsimon.com/p/a-vision-o...

Latest Sunday Edition is out. Enjoy! Rethinking Cinema (by Making It More Communal) - sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Sunday Edition #11 - The First Ten to Fifty Pages. Enjoy! sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Sunday Edition #10 - On The Decline of Conscientiousness (also ht to Night Tapes for always having amazing music video thumbnails!): sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

New Sunday Edition is out. Building Better Courtyards. Enjoy! sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

I *really* don't get how mega-budget films like Avengers: Doomsday don't shoot with a finished script. Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Why gamble like that?

Wrote about my feelings about Ethereum a decade later. Not entirely happy with where the crypto space has gone in general. We need more cypherpunk and we need people to just, be better. sceneswithsimon.com/p/a-sober-re...

Latest Sunday Edition is out. Translations and Ekphrastic Writing on Digital Art. Enjoy! sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Sunday Edition #7 - Solaris (1972) vs Solaris (2002) sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Sunday Edition 6: On Modifying Memories. sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Latest newsletter is out. Bit thin this week as I'm enjoying time off and road tripping through California. 🤗 sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

New Sunday Edition is out. People are talking about the decline of literary fiction again. sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Ranked choice voting is good and I really hope we can see more of that at larger scales.

New essay. Treat the ego as a venue. sceneswithsimon.com/p/ego-as-venue

Sunday Edition #3 - Artist Corporations. Enjoy! sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Sunday Edition #2 - A Review of Abundance, Mario Kart World, and Office-to- sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

One of the reasons I adore ranked choice voting. Cross-endorsing is incentivized.

My mega post about walking the Camino Frances for 22 days is live. In 3 parts. I share my personal journey of grief and acceptance, talk about the future, and share some tips and lessons. Hope it helps others also going through grief. sceneswithsimon.com/p/my-500km-w...

First newsletter since April. Going to be changing it up a bit. More casual. With essays being entirely separate. Hi! 👋 sceneswithsimon.com/p/the-sunday...

Hoping to soon start querying for agents with my second novel. If you're a published author (or agent), I would love to chat/talk and get advice. 🙏

After ~119 weekly newsletters (posting every Sunday), I’m taking a hiatus as I go on a long walking trip through Spain. Taking this opportunity to thank everyone who’s been reading. :) sceneswithsimon.com/p/on-walking

Seeing fellow Star Wars fans making the trek to Japan for Celebration. Lots of happy and excited faces. Going to the one in London 2 years ago was magical. Enjoy! :)

Been wondering more about the rise of using LLM chatbots as therapy. Curious to hear your thoughts. I covered it on my recent newsletter: sceneswithsimon.com/p/the-therap...

Mad respect to Senator Cory Booker. 💪🙏

A longer essay this week on my newsletter. On what’s downstream of AI Ghibli. From AI Ghibli to Rebuilding our Tribes: sceneswithsimon.com/p/from-ai-gh...

Need to add Ghibli style transfer to top right and bottom right on this chart. Feels like it is still fresh from my Jan 2024 article on this.

There's a great Key and Peele sketch in this I bet. 😅 We've all been there and when I'm not tired, it's hilarious.

Latest newsletter is out! Enjoy! The Process of Making Something Heavy. sceneswithsimon.com/p/the-proces...

Growing up in a Mediterranean climate and then living in an area with four full seasons is a trip. First warm spring sun in the latter literally makes me feel high. What a magical feeling. We're just complicated plants, really. 😅

New newsletter is out. In Public With The Second Audience. Enjoy! sceneswithsimon.com/p/in-public-...

a buddy of mine made this, it's Letterboxd for music, I am a fan. factory.fm

With the USA screwing around with South Africa, totally feeling this too. 😅🇿🇦

Latest newsletter is out. Enjoy! Digital Memories: Hoarder? Pruner? Deleter? sceneswithsimon.com/p/digital-me...

As expected, public approval of congestion pricing in New York is following the same trajectory it followed in London, Stockholm and everywhere else it was tried. One would hope we could learn a lesson from such things!

Latest newsletter is out. Enjoy! Digital Memories: Hoarder? Pruner? Deleter? sceneswithsimon.com/p/digital-me...

The real mystery is why NYC does not have a Nando's? DMV got them beat, bad.

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Enjoyed writing this week’s newsletter. On Chapters In Narrative and Life. Enjoy! sceneswithsimon.com/p/on-chapter...

Definitely accepting I'm well on my way to my 40s when hotel lobbies and department stores are playing music I'd play for a hangout at my place. 😅

Not the trailer I expected, but the trailer I needed. Andor S2 hype!! youtu.be/AE4wxt70aUM?... So excited for this.

You find this in any creative medium: wanting to write a novel but not sure what about, buying music equipment without knowing what music you want to actually make, building game engines just because, etc. People want to LARP the aesthetics of the medium vs using the medium for their goals.

Still mostly spending my time writing and walking, so another shorter newsletter this week. A bit more personal. On certainty and complexity: sceneswithsimon.com/p/on-certain...