Severin Matusek

According to an advertising agency I consulted, for example, a weekly podcast that generates thirty thousand downloads per episode should be able to reach Kelly’s target of generating a hundred thousand dollars a year in income. Earning a middle-class salary by talking through a digital microphone to a fiercely loyal band of supporters around the... See more

This means we can think about our approach with steadier footing instead of vacillating in response to the hype, whether it comes from the top as LinkedIn posts by prepper CEOs or from the bottom by the hustleheads on X.

what I’m interested in is not only how we set the stage, but what makes a performance so good that we all end up believing it.

Citarella noted that he’s been warning, for more than half a decade, that too many people remain under the mistaken impression that “what happens on the internet isn’t real.” He added that “the professional commentary class” has been particularly insulated from the power of digital discourse, because “they pay attention to the legacy sources of... See more

But I’m into the new kids who are trying to make the internet how they want it, like Zane with Silk. The future has to look like something, after all...

A refusal of AI in creative work begins with a refusal of that product’s ideological packaging.

The value is really in the creator communities, and one of the fundamental reasons why Channel was what we ended up building is that it allowed us to re-bundle around ready-made communities. Our entire approach to re-networking a media system is based on how new media functions now.

A common critique suggests this convergence of betting and browsing is a joyless, clinical exercise—that reducing our interests to "investments" strips away the inherent fun of discovery. This view posits that most people don't actually want to "make things happen" or carry the burden of being right; they just want to be entertained. But my data... See more