Sarah Drinkwater

At events like last week’s PactDAO panel, there is a noticeably differentiated and nuanced conversation happening. Between the polarized cheerleading from crypto maximalists and the straw-manning from leftist tech skeptics, there is a cautious yet optimistic embrace of crypto as a frontier for constructive experiments, with plenty of design space t... See more

Here's a slide from a recent all-hands. 1B+ people live and work in either MSFT or Google suite (no real alternatives), and a sea of SaaS fragmentations (too rigid, too uncreative) The world needs a "LEGOs for software" and @NotionHQ is here to build that! 5/n https://t.co/5l7n5NxMKC

But truth, unlike information, has a centripetal force that holds society together. Information, on the other hand, is centrifugal, with very destructive effects on social cohesion. If we want to comprehend what kind of society we are living in, we need to understand the nature of information.

Pretty basic! And yet, nothing on the internet presently allows me to do this — not in a way that’s sufficiently simple, expressive, and predictable.

The accumulated fruits of human agency and creative problem-solving are so ubiquitous today—in the form of agriculture and modern medicine, electricity and air conditioning, Uber and Amazon, Google and iPhones, widespread literacy and constitutional government, bank loans and credit cards, Zoom and Facebook—that we tend to assume them as the natura... See more