The article living rent-free in my brain this week is by Ian Leslie (h/t Matt Muir), about the death of the ‘scenius’:

Brian Eno coined the term “scenius” to refer to the collective genius that can emerge when a population of diverse and fertile talents living in geographical proximity form a loose community or ‘scene’. A scene consists of artists (from the same field and adjacent ones) and of collectors, entrepreneurs, curators, critics and theorists (akin to what the sociologist Howard Becker c...