Severin Matusek

Technologist tended to view their world as somewhat insulated, despite having mass impact on culture and society at large. But over the past decade, at minimum, there’s been far more collisions of scenes. Both production oriented and deeply intellectual.

But at least one thing has always felt clear to us: If you want to try and do something fun, strange and special on the internet, it helps to owe nothing to anyone but your readers.

masterful intellectuo-philosophical breakdowns of sauce semiotics.

Web3 is about the freedom to opt-in to systems and to opt-out of them.

Speculation. The token acts as an investment into a project that might increase in value as it becomes more popular.

Flatness, like scalability, is efficient. The same culture flows through the same pipes to the same net-average consumer. But since when did efficiency become the sole metric by which we judge art? Filterworld represents the idea that the messiness of culture can be optimized and that only what is optimized for shareability is worthwhile. I disagre... See more

Despite its gravitational pull, the story behind decentralization and the rise of crypto was just one island in the new internet archipelago.

If you look at any one Substack newsletter in comparison to its peers, it does appear banal and repetitive. But they are not experienced as a landscape; they are experienced individually. Each one is its own tiny world.