Severin Matusek

So is it possible to build AI tools that can help us all, rather than simply bolstering the dizzying wealth of a small number of tech companies? Is it possible to create an AI that democratises more than just financial insecurity for the majority of people—simply shifting a greater percentage of people below the wealth disparity gap rather than... 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

I am old enough to remember the old Silicon Valley dictum that if you’re not talking to users and you’re not solving an unmet need, then your startup is dead on arrival. Funny thing is, I actually believe this techno-gospel. I’ve lived this out and found it to be true. Good user research is gold. You must be led by the user’s needs, no matter how... See more

The problem isn’t that the mean has decreased. It’s that the variance has shrunk.

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.

Post-individuals have a desire to belong, to be seen and recognised beyond economic compensation or status. As an answer to the individualism of the creator economy, metalabels are a new paradigm where groups of people team up under a shared purpose to create public releases that manifest their point of view.

“I’ve used ChatGPT a handful of times,” writes Hsu, “and on one occasion it accomplished a scheduling task so quickly that I began to understand the intoxication of hyper-efficiency.”