Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
co-matter.comSeverin Matusek
“The model is the art work,”
Anna Wiener • Holly Herndon’s Infinite Art
Kelin’s students are already power users. “I had one student who has three Claude subscriptions because they keep hitting the rate limits,” she says. “They get timed out of one, switch to the next. Timed out again, switch to the third.” By the end of the semester, several students told Kelin that her AI course was the most practical class they’d... See more
Welcome to the entry-level void: what happens when junior design jobs disappear?
Encampments are not an uncommon sight in Berkeley, but on my visits to Sproul Hall I was struck, nonetheless, by the tents, and what they seemed to evoke.
A Generation of Distrust
this relates to Alice’s thoughts on polarization
Personal storyAfter leaving Kickstarter started Yancey started to investigate the system of valueWhich led him to publish a book called This Could be Our Future.
Yancey Strickler • 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler
SORA: the all Ai TikTok Clone. will slop end creativity?
youtube.comThe past hundred years a canon that defined modernity, post-modernity, and our world was established, celebrated, illuminated, and constantly revised by critics and appreciators who used the pen to make their case. They’re the ones who helped establish cultural significance. They’re the ones who remind us to marvel not at demographics, but at... See more
The prestige recession
Layoffs. Side hustles. Freelancers everywhere. Elaborate new titles.
What even is a “career path” now?I don’t think this is just a downturn
It's not a glitch, it’s a whole new operating system
“market but also all risk borne on individuals not orgs and with that the loss of expertise building, domain knowledge, and institutional knowledge. It means everyone will eventually be starting from scratch with every process on ever project, ending up in the same problem crypto people have where they are constantly "inventing" things that have existed for centuries.”
The sense is that in the fairly recent past there were social narratives that were both fulfilling and rewarding to participate in, but that for our generation and seemingly subsequent generations to come, it is becoming harder and harder to find and buy into a compelling shared telos. This is the sense of meaninglessness that prompts some people... See more