{"podcast":{"title":"I am OPTimist","slug":"i-am-optimist-7143643","podcast_index_feed_id":7143643,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/731823.rss","website_url":"https://www.monikabravo.blog/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/731823/a21b09d8cc174423adcae82bcde087d4.jpg","author":"Monika Bravo","episode_count":176,"summary":"Exploring the creative architecture of a polymath and multidisciplinary artist, sharing a living and individuated journey across shadow work, bitcoin, evolution, astrology, myths, art, and the principles of freedom, Austrian economics, and natural law.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T02:17:21.181753+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643"},"episode":{"title":"Synthesis as perfection rather than pursuit","slug":"synthesis-as-perfection-rather-than-pursuit","published_at":"2026-06-15T03:51:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643/synthesis-as-perfection-rather-than-pursuit","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643","url":"https://www.monikabravo.blog/p/synthesis-as-perfection-rather-than","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201740421/cf0cf3b9de19e21647e6b308988fac31.mp3","summary":"Hi. I can’t believe how fast this year is flying. We reached the solstice. I am very happy to share that I am relaunching my website. This is a soft launch, because I still have to update a lot of projects, and I will do that in due time, without going into crazy crisis mode. I wanted this to come from a very personal place. I started designing websites back in the 90s, learning code and creating these environments, or experiences, because I wanted to create something that didn’t have a corporate feeling, something more like a process of creativity, a process of work. And this time is no different. Of course, there are menus, and there is text, and there are illustrations, but it is more like the experience of understanding, or peeking into my reality, into what my world is. The last time I changed my website was exactly ten years ago. That is a long time. Before that, it changed every three or four years, as I was trying to keep up with the amount of work that I was doing, because I have had a long career as an artist. And that was something else that really happened here, being able to realize how much work I have produced. Even though internally I feel like I am in an identity crisis, because the whole world is in one, it made me realize how blessed I am for being able to have so much talent, and to practice it in so many different ways. And I am not speaking from an arrogant place. I am speaking from a humble place. I know that the talent I was given by the grace of the Gods has found ways to shine, whether it is through public art commissions, which I have completely been devoted to from 2017 onward, and that was purposefully done. I left the gallery slash museum world because it was something I was no longer identifying with, and it was no longer resonating with…","meta_description":"Hi. I can’t believe how fast this year is flying. We reached the solstice. I am very happy to share that I am relaunching my website. This is a soft launc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":319,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/i-am-optimist-7143643/episodes/synthesis-as-perfection-rather-than-pursuit/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643/synthesis-as-perfection-rather-than-pursuit.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}