Severin Matusek

Lorecraft is clearly a strikingly millennial school of management thinking. All the thinkers who belong in this tradition are, as far as I can tell, between about 28-35 or so. They are firmly middle-of-the-pack millennials. Founders of startups who seem to practice a sort of management by lorecraft, such as Conor White-Sullivan of Roam Research,... See more

the ‘collaborative play’ (as Default Friend phrases it in the above tweet) aspect of TikTok really becomes apparent.

No topic—not the genocidal war and famine in Gaza, not Trumpian authoritarianism—has magnetized bien-pensant attention this year in the way that AI has. Writing on AI thus comes in every mode: muckraking (“Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to ‘Munch’ Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health”), scholastic (“Deep Learning’s Governmentality”), polemical... See more

Is it the writer’s role to be strategic or truthful?

Consistency and quality are everything.

This universalism of meme-feels is almost as resilient as the cheesy “unbreakable” human spirit itself. One can even draw parallels along the late David Lynch’s Transcendental Mediation* chart. Oupi Goupi, again, attests to this. Lakaka’s TikToks transcended language and cultural barriers because beneath all those layers of irony, it tapped into... See more