Here is my conversation with Simon de la Rouviere.

Simon de la Rouviere’s contributions to crypto range from seeding the idea of bonding curves and curation markets, to now working on bottom-up storytelling with Untitled Frontier.

Simon’s exploration of creative mechanism design through the years is documented on his blog. His contributions to the space range from seeding the idea of bonding curves and curation markets, to building one of the first creator platforms with Ujo, to writing a full length novel experimenting with different publishing models, to now working on bottom-up storytelling with Untitled Frontier.

In this conversation, we talked about cc0, designing NFT economies to welcome derivative works, bottom-up storytelling, and much more.

Timestamps:
0:00 intro
1:29 how Simon got into the craft of storytelling
6:25 Kishōtenketsu and the lonely process of long-form content creation
14:08 top-down vs. bottom-up storytelling
21:58 “the medium is the message.”
27:22 CC0, derivatives, Jenkins the Valet
34:49 Harberger Taxes and mechanism design
39:58 NFTs vs ERC20s for ownership and governance
44:13 new power structures

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Mentioned in the show:
Untitled Frontier - [https://www.untitledfrontier.studio/]
Kishotenketsu - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishōte...]
Simon’s posts on Kishotenketsu - [https://blog.simondlr.com/posts/kisho...]
Poet San'yō Rai - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_San'yō]
Baosho Fan Fiction - [https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/19/1...]
Nouns - [https://nouns.wtf/]