Simon de la Rouviere: cc0, derivatives, and bottom-up storytelling

<p>Here is my conversation with <a href="https://twitter.com/simondlr">Simon de la Rouviere</a>.</p><p>Simon’s exploration of creative mechanism design through the years is documented on his <a href="https://blog.simondlr.com/">blog</a>. 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.</p><p>In this conversation, we talked about cc0, designing NFT economies to welcome derivative works, bottom-up storytelling, and much more.</p><p>Timestamps:</p><ul> <li> <strong>1:29</strong> - How Simon got into the craft of storytelling</li> <li> <strong>6:25</strong> - The lonely process of long-form content creation</li> <li> <strong>9:53</strong> - Kishōtenketsu</li> <li> <strong>14:26</strong> - Top-down vs. bottom-up storytelling</li> <li> <strong>21:52</strong> - “The medium is the message.”</li> <li> <strong>27:17</strong> - CC0, derivatives, Jenkins the Valet</li> <li> <strong>34:43</strong> - Harberger Taxes and mechanism design</li> <li> <strong>39:51</strong> - NFTs vs ERC20s for ownership and governance</li> <li> <strong>44:06</strong> - New power structures</li> </ul>