Simon de la Rouviere (simondlr)

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Early ETH miners on fire off the shoulder of Roberta's. I watched early ConsenSys HQ glitter with stickers in the dark near the Morgan Ave L. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

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Feel like I've hit the limit on Duolingo for my daily Spanish lesson. Learning far too niche vocab and grammar for my actual speaking and listening ability. Curious what else is there if any of you all use language learning apps?

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My magical realism pet theory is that David Bowie was the gravitational well for the weird. And when he died in Jan 2016, we lost the ability to keep it all intact.

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Slowly emerging back online after a 485km walk and some much needed time with family. Will be changing things up a bit. Stay tuned. 🤗

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Successful media always spoke for us in some way. In 2024, I think it's even more important. In this week's newsletter I tackle media saturation and theorise on why some media is being instantly memory-holed. https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/media-saturation-and-having-media

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After a year of writing, I finally finished the first draft of my new novel this week. So, I wrote a bit more about how I approach novel drafts for this week's newsletter! Enjoy! https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/on-novel-drafts-and-trails

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I think there's space for civic organisations that only specialise in holding citizen's assemblies independent of state/government. - Provides tools for sortition over a population. - Provides frameworks for deliberation. - Provides dashboards for representation/legitimation. Wonder if any exist?

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