Severin Matusek

Taylor Swift, for example, is notorious for generating lore, putting easter eggs in everything she does, and readingand playing into fan theories about herself. She does this both in the ‘text’ of her songs (see: the fandom’s obsession around the Betty/August/James lore in the album /iterallycalled folklore), as well as in her activities... See more

According to Restless Egg co-founder Sam Lipnick, the cross-pollination between art and technology also goes some way to solving the dilemma posed earlier: how can art compete with the speed and scale of Big Tech as we move through the 2020s? “The best way to get an idea in front of as many eyes as possible 100 years ago was the written word, a few... See more

The Trump Administration has taken full advantage of this algorithm brain. We’ve entered the pure extraction phase of the economy, where things are created solely for consumption rather than purpose. I don’t mean this as a moralistic argument, it’s purely incentives, but it’s puzzling.

Every once in a while I think about the insanity of HBR asking Seinfeld if McKinsey could have made him more efficient

Rather than building tools that compete with them, the smarter strategy is to create incentives for their participation.

People will pay for the convenience of not poring through internet sludge all day and having someone clarify what they need to know.”