Severin Matusek

Whoever controls infrastructure determines the future. If you doubt that, consider that in Europe we’re still using roads and living in towns and cities the Roman Empire mapped out 2,000 years ago.

When you see work untether from reward in foundational systems like labor, finance, and media, you have to reorient your understanding of the market and the consumer. The future of business and culture is not merely about the value these systems unlock—it’s about the behaviors and beliefs they lock in .

Among other things, this meant leaning into a career and leaning into a career meant less time for the group chat.

GPT-4o image gen is going nuts. People are cooking ads, UIs, album art & more. 10 wild examples + prompts & how-to: https://t.co/NtNzz3nFlB

The New Economics Foundation found that 82% of Uber customers would use a more ethical alternative to the ride hail service and 54% would pay more for their journey to give drivers better pay and conditions.

For both publications and universities, there are narrow pathways to follow the example of Hollywood, where, after its strike two years ago, the Writers Guild won historic if imperfect protections against GenAI in screenwriting. Under the 2023 WGA contract terms, writers can’t be replaced by AI, or be required to use it (and where they choose to,... See more

The existing institutional landscape tends to silo relevant areas of expertise. There are few organizations set up to provide opportunities for integrated projects that include broad philosophical inquiry and the production of code. Existing work that has passed through all three stages is often not fully recognized as having done so, since the... See more

If we want people to make different decisions is to challenge people what to think of the self. Who are you, what are all the dimensions of you? It’s in those dimensions that you challenge what you care about. That person has a different sense of what is right and what is wrong.