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I'm sure some Woolworths stores sells bottled coffee. 👏

Latest newsletter is out! https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edition-5-on-ambition

Enjoy! (Tired today. Drove from Santa Monica to Monterey)

Happy 4th USA. You've been a welcoming home for the past 4.5 years. Despite a lot of shit, you generally ain't too bad. 🤗🥳

Spent it watching the Dodgers lose tremendously bad. 😂

New Sunday Edition is out. People are talking about the decline of literary fiction again.

New Sunday Edition is out. People are talking about the decline of literary fiction again.

https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edition-4-the-discourse-of

Started playing civ 7 and I'm just accidentally making everyone my enemy.  😅

Good fun once it gets going. Still early in the game.

LEARNING TO SEE

🖼️: Receipt 0.1337 ETH (2022) by @0xhaiku in the collection of wilt.eth after a record 30 transfers

👀: This work elevates one of the most fundamental actions a user can perform on the blockchain—the act of transfer—and immortalises it on a digital representation of a receipt. It made me appreciate how art on the blockchain can manifest in what was to me then an entirely novel dimension: where the canvas is a network, and the brushstrokes placed upon it are our actions on that very network.

Creative projects, writing, more: takenstheorem.github.io

Thanks!

...but yeah, relinquishing control is scary, but it's to see the ego *also* as a creative force despite its drawbacks. It's a strong driving force and it feels it's better to harness it than to ignore it.

Food

Medical student || music lover || Artist ||nature lover|| Food Lover. 🌸

New essay. Treat the ego as a venue.

https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/ego-as-venue

urbanism

I love non-spaces like this. Why is it there? If it's truly for a sitting area, why is it slightly elevated? Is it a vestigial piece of a previous shop/store/space? What's really going on here?

I find shields (force fields) a very unexplored territory in sci-fi. Instant walls of various sizes would reshape a lot of society, not just as "armor". Offensive use too. If anyone could do it, will it be regulated?

Planning to get back into making music again soon. Going back through some old stuff. This was a jam. I should polish and release it. 😂

Saddened by the loss of Meher Roy. A kind and curious soul. Will never forget how eagerly he listened when so few did in the early days.

I'm incredibly saddened to share that yesterday, my co-founder and closest friend Meher passed away after a long fight against leukemia.

I met Meher back in 2014. At the time, he was working for Novartis, but he had a deep interest in cryptocurrencies. He was an Epicenter https://t.co/993bKpLUv8

Brian Fabian Crain

Saddened by the loss of Meher Roy. A kind and curious soul. Will never forget how eagerly he listened when so few did in the early days.

https://x.com/crainbf/status/1937111596469469288?t=RsCP3SPVDCLJQp0nasckBQ&s=19

It's 2032 and everything is a podcast.

- Dating? Surprise. First dates are in a podcast booth.
- Renewing your driver's license? You're in a podcast about cars while you wait.
- Restaurant? Food served in a podcast booth.
- Funeral? Everyone provides soundbites to a podcast about your life.

PODCAST

Screens

Writer, artist, technologist. 🇿🇦, living in 🇺🇸. Did some Ethereum token things back in the day.

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Like, the sincere side of metamodernism need to be good by itself.

Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

I feel like great metamodern work need to actually survive on its modernist side, not on its postmodernity. The latter is the entry point and provides juxtaposition, but you still need to tell a good story without the meta introspection. I just started KCFH and the dark side bears the weight of it.

Writers

Sunday Edition #3 - Artist Corporations. Enjoy!

Sunday Edition #3 - Artist Corporations. Enjoy!

https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edition-3-artist-corporations

Music

musician: gigameshmusic.com | dev: github.com/gigamesh

Damn. Banger. And yeah, totally agree with your sentiment.

Have such a love/hate relationship with NYC. Today, it's immaculate.

Back in NYC for the weekend. The worstbest city in the world. Always feel awfulamazing here. Never at peace. 😂

Simon de la Rouviere

@simondlr