Simon Wisdom

I built an interactive Intentional Party Planner to help people design their next gathering with more purpose.

I wanted to get close to wood grain, the smell of sawdust, and the smoothness of sanded corners.

I’ve now moved into a wonderful community house in North London.

I’m training for a triathlon.

I’ve started reading ‘Drawing on the right side of the brain’ by Betty Edwards.

This is my first ever short story.

Coming soon.

I’m currently living in a community house (Newspeak House) that hosts hundreds of people each week in the event hall, and dozens of people for smaller gatherings in the living room and coworking space.

My brother and I teamed up last weekend to make a short film for a competition in 72 hours using only AI generated content.

I’ve been wanting to try fine-tuning a language model on my own writing, I don’t have a whole lot of it yet, but according to OpenAI’s Fine Tuning guide, you can try with as few as 10 examples, and anywhere from 50 to 100 gives decent results.

I created a bunch of new logos for a previous version of this website.

At the start of last year (2023) I embarked on a creative challenge: complete a project every week for a year.

I decided to centralize my posts on my own website according to POSSE principles.

I decided to centralize my posts on my own website according to POSSE principles.

I decided to centralize my posts on my own website according to POSSE principles.

I decided to centralize my posts on my own website according to POSSE principles.

This week I wrapped up 52 weeks.

I decided to centralize my posts on my own website according to POSSE principles.

In 2024, I wanted to continue the creative momentum from my 52 Weeks project but with a more sustainable monthly cadence.

This week I looked back at all the projects of the year and a big pile of half-finished projects.

This week I built a scraper to get me the perfect dinner table reservation at a high end restaurant.

This week I revisited Week 42 - Real Time Speech to Image and rebuilt it from scratch so it runs locally and much faster.

I decided to centralize my posts on my own website according to POSSE principles.

This week I made my first 3D print, a fidget spinner.

This week I experimented (like half the internet) with custom GPTs, a new feature OpenAI released.

This week I visualized my Ecobici (city bike rental) bike rides over the last few months.

This week I scraped and analyzed property listings in Mexico City to build a price prediction model.

This week I created a real time speech to image generator.

This week I created a workflow to transcribe new words from my Spanish conversation classes into flashcards.

This week I climbed Tepozteco and did some rope flow on top.

This week I created toasti, a much improved (but for now still ugly looking) connection games app for iOS and Android .

This week we hosted a disco themed murder mystery dinner party.

This week I made a custom contour map of the hike-able volcanoes around Mexico City.

This week P and I made a delicious loaf of ‘high vibrational’ bread.

This week I filmed a face yoga video to do alongside a daily carrot chewing practice.

This week we threw an engagement party with ritual, experience, live music, and food.

This week I had planned to make a short film, but life got in the way, so instead I cut together a short rope flow video.

This week I investigated the history, manufacture, and health implications of a 3 common food ingredients I saw in the US.

This week I was in NYC hanging out with a close friend.

This week P and I hosted a special dinner celebrating new friends and personal stories for 10 people.

This week I created and recreated several photographic typologies of things around where I live. 52s in Mexico City Tools I used: iPhone 13 mini - to take the photos Google maps - to identify the 52s Eyes and feet - to get me to the 52s Darktable - a free…

This week I spent 3 days in silent meditation at Dhamma Makaranda Vipassana center.

This week I created an iOS app called LighterUp that tracks your daily light exposure and gives you daily scores.

This week I created three kinds of workout equipment to play and get stronger at home: a kettlebell, a balance beam, and a tire sled.

This week I created a worm farm to break down our food scraps and generate fertilizer for our growing plant collection.

I spent the last two weeks eating great food in Oaxaca City, and to celebrate and commemorate I prepared a 3 course dinner for 4 people inspired by the cuisine. , where these are handmade Context In my last post, I committed to finishing the buildspace pr…

I decided to centralize my posts on my own website according to POSSE principles.

This week I evolved my buildspace idea from ‘communitas’ to ‘attunitas’, it’s now a platform to help you stay in touch with long-distance friends.

This week I created a community feedback app called ‘communitas’ using Next.js, Prisma, Vercel, and the OpenAI API.

This week I created an interactive 3D scene of real objects and a real terrace using photogrammetry. - to capture objects and rooms in 3D Spline - to render and animate objects in a scene Luma.ai - to play around with NeRFs iPhone 13 mini camera - to take…