Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
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Last week CNN asked me how I explain the downturn in the news industry: big layoffs, scant investment, no recovery in sight.
A list of factors is not an explanation, I said. But that is what I have.
So here's my thread. None of it should be news to people in the business. 0/
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The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
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how in a post pandemic world, IRL is the new counterculture.
Yusuf Ntahilaja • 2025: The Year of ‘Soft Clubbing’
The last three decades of being online have shown us over and over again that lasting culture cannot be automated and meaningful creativity cannot be manufactured. Both must be given the proper time, space, and tools needed to blossom organically and of their own accord. From cavemen to hippies, the core of our cultures have revolved around shared... See more
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When chance so often triumphs over sweat, the real opportunity lies in writing narratives that thrive precisely because they reject old rules, and in doing so, create surprising, life-affirming possibilities that might just become the new mythologies we live by.
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At the same time, we are often told these systems are impossible to fully comprehend and are far beyond our control.