Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
co-matter.comSeverin Matusek
When someone’s political leanings begin to change, most of the time it is because they have fallen into new circles, not because they have learned something new from personal experience about how the government or the economy works.
Everyone’s Existential Crisis
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?
kyla scanlon • Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely
Rather than building tools that compete with them, the smarter strategy is to create incentives for their participation.
A Decade of Tokenization Experiments in Music
And that is what really gets me going: the dynamic between what’s going on in the world, and what it means for us as human beings.
What my writing is really about
The thousand true fans thesis builds on the original ideals of the internet: users and creators globally connected, unconstrained by intermediaries, sharing ideas and economic upside. Incumbent social media platforms sidetracked this vision by locking creators into a bundle of distribution and monetization. There are, correspondingly, two ways to... See more
cdixon • NFTs and a Thousand True Fans
In Mythologies , Roland Barthes discusses how wrestling (and now, politics) uses kayfabe, the convention of presenting staged narratives and spectacles as real to capture attention and elicit a desired response from an audience.
