Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
co-matter.comSeverin Matusek
I was motivated to write Antimemetics in part because I felt dissatisfied with how we’ve unthinkingly glommed onto memetic warfare as a terminal explanation for why people do what they do. Memes and mimicry might explain some of our behavior today, but they aren’t an excuse to roll over and accept things exactly as they are.
Playing tai chi with memetic warfare
Layoffs. Side hustles. Freelancers everywhere. Elaborate new titles.
What even is a “career path” now?I don’t think this is just a downturn
It's not a glitch, it’s a whole new operating system
“market but also all risk borne on individuals not orgs and with that the loss of expertise building, domain knowledge, and institutional knowledge. It means everyone will eventually be starting from scratch with every process on ever project, ending up in the same problem crypto people have where they are constantly "inventing" things that have existed for centuries.”
A matrix of values vs a singular idea of value.
Yancey Strickler • 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler
The ways to provide context on our digital profiles (e.g. Linktree) are very limited. The creator economy does a poor job at that.
Yancey Strickler • 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler
“How do you exhibit that? Does that create a new economy for artists? Does that require new governance structures between the institution and the artists exhibiting that work? How do we show people how exciting this is?”
Anna Wiener • Holly Herndon’s Infinite Art
Vibing a project – in which you simply speak the thing you want into existence by prompting – is now a popular approach.
The productivity paradox: why AI won’t speed up creative work
To understand the networked self, we must first understand the self, which is a ceaseless endeavor. The ultimate problem of the Internet might stem not from the discrete technology but from the Frankensteinian way in which humanity’s invention has exceeded our own capacities.
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
Today, of the labor market, it’s said that AI won’t take your job, someone who’s good with AI will take your job. But that feels only partially true, and only for the next few years. Those of us who’ve got our 10,000 hours, and have graduated to be delegating and being paid to think are likely to be OK.