Severin Matusek

This has turned communicators of all kinds – from fashion influencers to public health specialists – into Kremlinologists who obsessively analyze the behavior of social media algorithms in the hopes of learning how to please them and (more importantly) how to avoid their punishments.

Hence algospeak. Social media users have learned the hard way that... See more

Simply put, we don’t know what is important until many years later.

Young romantics working at the "intersection of art and technology" launched endless criticisms of big tech's overreach and in the process created the foundations for an entire scene of left-field internet aesthetics.

Finally, the new technologist does not limit themselves to the VC sprint arena of the past two decades. We believe that we will need to run for government offices with a platform around building products that work for constituents. We are comfortable and embrace roles in the public sector, financial industry, cultural industries, and more.

Screentime has become a colosseum where everything is in competition with everything else: email from work competes with text from a friend competes with Instagram and Tiktok.

Joanne McNeil provides context to the evolution of communities online connection to the platforms that enable it. 

While people want borderless money in principle, what they really want is to be a part of something.

The move-fast ethos that works for software deployment is potentially catastrophic when applied to human cognitive development. You can’t A/B test your way out of atrophy. You can’t pivot when you realise you’ve lost a generation of expertise.