Severin Matusek

Reality as we understand it is a phenomenon of social structures, language, and shared processes for engaging with the world. Digital media is remaking all of these in such a way that media consumption more and more resembles the act of playing an alternate reality game.

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.

The fundamental tension of narrative control in the networked era is that most companies impose a hierarchical brand management model onto what has effectively become a distributed, permissionless process. And when the emergent meme-space of networked media meets censorship-resistant infrastructures, brands take on a life of their own.

"Sciences are born when philosophy learns to ask the right questions; their potential is suppressed when it does not. New philosophy is born when new technologies force it to invent new concepts."

chasing the feeling of acceptance, telos and community without that feeling corresponding to any materially beneficial group telos. The phenomenology of social reward and the material benefits of social cohesion are becoming increasingly decoupled.

If you’re twenty-three and entering creative work right now, you could theoretically go your entire early career without ever building the foundational cognitive muscles that create senior creative excellence. Pattern recognition. Conceptual synthesis. The ability to tolerate ambiguity and sit with discomfort. The instinct for when something is... See more

About MetalabelAbstracting the concept of a label away from the music industry: it’s a hyperstructure (borrowing the term of Jacob Horne from Zora) that I call the metalabel. It’s a person or group of people creating a common identity for a shared purpose producing public releases that manifests their point of view.

Yarvin argued that the institutions of civil society, such as Harvard, would need to be shut down. “The idea that you’re going to be a Caesar . . . with someone else’s Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd,” he said.