# Kimiya: A New Mag on The Alchemy of Creation

By [rileybeans](https://paragraph.com/@rileybeans) · 2025-02-14

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Technology is simply nature expressing itself.

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Since my post on leaving crypto, I’ve gotten questions about what I’m interested in working on next. Though I gave a little at the end, maybe you didn’t get that far down or just want some more details. Having the freedom as a creator to choose what you want to work on is incredibly liberating, and having done just that for quite a while now, I guess I simply want to be open to sharing more of that with more people. Don’t worry, I won’t keep you here long.

My role is not as some esoteric teacher; I'll leave that to the professionals. Though I do appreciate them and I'm happy to share what I've learned, the purpose here is to facilitate stories, something we all do. Embracing decentralization as a cultural and creative philosophy, not as a technical framework. A middle ground.

If you know me, all of this is very obvious.

> 🌞 Kimiya is a creator-first independent magazine welcoming researchers, curious writers, and makers to consider the ways new tech can change our relationship to storytelling.

It’s called Al-Kimiya, shortened as just Kimiya, translated from Arabic and many other languages to Alchemy. A merging of futurism with cultures sharing the challenges of transformation and transfiguration. And also, shamelessly, a simple place for me to share things I find interesting without annoying friends in crypto spaces.

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Transfiguration & Transformation
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In late 2023, I descended into ancient teachings from all sorts of civilizations. After going through this (often insanity-inducing) rabbit hole, I found the alchemical texts of Hermes Trismegistus most fascinating.

As we move through the chaos of transformation under the dance of Pluto in Aquarius, now is the time for a explorations centered on care within this challenge of change. I have a few theories on the next steps for humanity I’m excited to test out. I believe those can be facilitated through integrating new interfaces for storytelling. Using our collective merge with more intelligent technologies to better share cultures from around the world will be what helps spread new ideas.

In my lifetime alone, we’ve been challenged by multiple transformations: from analog TV to digital, from dial-up to gigabit home networks, from going outside to being deeply integrated into smartphones and wearables—the list goes on—you get it.

I’m not interested in focusing my attention on some kind of AI transformation course, content, or anything like that. That sounds like a colossal waste of personal resources and can easily be done async when, instead, I could just build things that actually help people, right?

As Above
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With that in mind, I see two sides to my interests coming together here: the first is a space for builders and cultural anthropologist types to create real tangible interfaces (empheral apps that help when needed & physical interfaces because I personally have a great admiration for hardware) that help bring solutions to challenges, whether through closing knowledge gaps or lack of various resources.

This research should center storytelling to the ways we interact with imaginative technologies like smart glasses and human interfaces such as optical light-based modules, energy-efficient conductive materials to power smaller analog devices, and many more dynamic opportunities to connect with media beyond screens and paper.

[Starter ideas here](https://mango-theory-002.notion.site/19948bbfdba48046a941ea702e1d0e19)

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So Below
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On the other side of the proverbial coin is the need to actually visualize and tell the stories from these far-flung locations so that others may better understand their challenges. In theory, this should lead to better products, better understanding, and greater access to the questions being asked, not necessarily their immediate answers.

The localization movement is accelerating and I’m interested in exploring where we may poke our nose into and tell of new possibilities. The purpose for this focus is to deliberately seek stories that challenge our outer world in order to find inner collective joy.

In Bangkok, I met loads within crypto who were writers, editors, and designers of magazines in their past lives and I got the impression that a great many would jump at the opportunity to write about things unconnected to that work that centers care and the ideology of decentralization, without a focus on a specific protocol.

Before that, I've spent 4+ years cultivating a network of writers, researchers, and builders and to you reading this, I happily invite you to join me in building more wholesome creations.

Here’s how it works for now:

Option 1

1.  [Visit the Guild page 🏰](https://guild.xyz/kimiya)
    
2.  Fulfill the requirements to join \[will need USDC or fiat (stablecoin good)\]
    
3.  Enter the telegram chat you’re taken to
    
4.  Build, write, research, chat
    

Option 2

1.  [Subscribe to this Telegram channel](http://t.me/kimiyamag)
    
2.  Get free access to daily read-only correspondence 🌞
    
3.  Bask in the glory of collaborative building
    

Your support will help me pay my rent, design costs, the time and energy it takes to write each week and research new experiments and interviews when traveling.

That’s all for now. I don’t know about a release schedule or have any other details besides what you see here. Further updates will likely be found on this mirror blog, in the Telegram channels above, and [Substack newsletter](https://substack.com/@kimiyamag).

Why Telegram? The idea is to get away from algorithmic feeds and push away from the noise of social posts. Quiet contemplation with fellow creatives will vastly improve output.

Where that takes us? I haven’t the slightest clue. What I do know for certain is it will be challenging, cooperative, and, most of all, fun. :)))

If you're interested in sponsoring or investing in things we build there is a secondary Unlock [membership for sponsors](https://app.unlock-protocol.com/checkout?id=d12826f4-820b-4544-8457-82eb871aa756&selectedLock=0x3d91d43e95f9e322c1d53de6f55fdd97f0927be0) and if you'd like to do more above that such as hosting a member or myself, please send me a DM.

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*Originally published on [rileybeans](https://paragraph.com/@rileybeans/kimiya-a-new-mag-on-the-alchemy-of-creation)*
