Severin Matusek

I keep thinking about something Ezra said in our conversation - Trump embodies the attention economy so completely that he's become indistinguishable from it.

It's the perfect crystallization of what America has become: the world's most powerful content creator.

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.

The takeaways? Consumers are redefining what value means to them, which is undoubtedly influencing how they shop. Discount and wholesale channels continue to attract consumers across age groups and income levels (for example, 80 percent of surveyed US Gen Zers report having shopped at a wholesaler in the previous month).29 Brands will need to strat... See more

Peloponnesian War of Robot Overlords

We're all participants in a cognitive economy that trades in attention, belief, and behavior. Shape the feed, shape the future. What happens when everything becomes an attention-speculation machine?

We're now living in a system where attention dynamics are the operating system for resource allocation, political decisions, and identity formation.