Severin Matusek

Simply put, we don’t know what is important until many years later.

We are not undergoing a crisis of culture but rather a crisis of epistemology.

People really desire community, so I’m trying to build a whole community around The Slowdown. In 2023, we celebrated our five-year anniversary and threw this big dinner at Eleven Madison Park, inviting more than 25 former Time Sensitive guests.

This is a chance to bring warmth and fun into an increasingly lonely and isolated world.

Robert Shiller coined narrative economics, arguing that stories drive economic behavior. I think we are in a new iteration of all of this where the stories aren't just influencing economic activity, they are the economic activity. Attention is a precursor to wealth (in many ways) and speculation drives it.