Ņ̨͈̯̻̪̥̥ͅick S̘͓͙usi
@nicksusi
Executive Director, Strategy - @lovedotdotdash Alum - @Complex @thefader @JayZ @BerkleeCollege
Dear strategists, if you’re not an active participant in the culture, your frameworks won’t save you
Fascinating stuff happening in startup culture at the moment. Designating not just competitors but company-level Nemeses. Opposite missions and value sets. Who and what is your startup the "Anti" of? (Ping @nicksusi "start a war", etc.)
3 months ago, @im_roy_lee dropped out of Columbia to build Cluely. This weekend @AntonioSitongLi and I (students at Columbia) built Truely — the Anti-Cluely: An open-source tool that monitors your calls to see if you’re talking to a real person.
I t̵h̵i̵n̵k̵*, therefore I am *feel like I can affect the outcome of what I consume through my screen with my posts
Within a span of five years in the 2000s, The Kardashians, Facebook, American Idol and Lost rewired what is now modern life (and politics) Life is performance for media Identity is tethered to the feed Live participation expects real-time outcomes Everything is a theory
Join @nicksusi and @being_on_line at the @StellarOrg Trust Circle for WAR OF THE WORDS, a conversation on narrative warfare, AI myth-making, and media distortion. 🛡️🗞️ FEST25 is Aug 1-3 in Idyllwild, CA. Tickets are $99 🌟 fwbfest.info
if you want to create a monocultural event, start a war
Reality tv and social media show that nothing has changed from when we’re children at the aquarium - the insatiable urge to tap on glass to see if something responds and acknowledges our existence
Is it a conspiracy theory? Disinformation? Or is it fan fiction about reality?
gambling, patronage & archive are the only proven use cases of music on blockchain. bet on me. fund me. remember me when i die. everything else is noise.
gonna be talking about aliens, war, magic, media, technology, all my favorite things with my favorite people in the woods @glycemag @Verite @being_on_line
“Every New Wave Of Technological Innovation Is Accompanied By Magical Thinking”
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The best thread I've read this year. Games are not games, they're social networks, and players choose to stay in-network. Meanwhile competing is increasingly expensive and fighting for a smaller slice. I expect we'll see similar dynamics play out in other attention economies.
This is what I think many have failed to grasp. T2, Epic, Roblox’s competition is going to be OpenAI, xAI, etc. The big tech companies are already making interactive world models that will compete with game experiences. This is why Mark Zuckerberg moved his bets away from…
i started watching the wrong season of love island & i've never felt more confused & out of touch.
the music listening experience doesn't want to be gamified with quests and rewards for participation. it should be a functional, simple experience with streamlined data. bring music into already gamified spaces to build these types of interactions.
“Every New Wave Of Technological Innovation Is Accompanied By Magical Thinking”
As technology seems more mystical and detached from everyday understanding — the average person has no idea how AI works Expect conspiracy theories to become more commonplace and core to belief systems — Rainmaker caused the Texas floods