Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
- Advertising has successfully used these strategies to accelerate identity formation/dissolution and, by extension, consumer capitalism. There is no reason that radical groups could not use similar methods to challenge capitalism and develop alternative collective identities.
from Negations: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Jonah Peretti
- Leading “solo capitalists” manage more money than many funds. Oren Zeev manages more than $1 billion without additional investment support. Elad Gil, Josh Buckley, Harry Stebbings and Lachy Groom manage funds in the hundreds of millions with similarly lean structures.
from The Future of Solo Capitalists | The Generalist by Mario Gabriele
- Areas of opportunity; hiring, creating products for founders like NFX's Signal, and processes such as indexing people instead of companies.
from Productizing Venture by Erik Torenberg
- In other words, when they say they are not lookingfor a faith community, millennials might mean they are not interested in belonging to an institution withreligious creed as the threshold. However, they are decidedly looking for spirituality and community incombination, and feel they can’t lead a meaningful life without it.The lack of deep communit... See more
from How we gather by Casper ter Kuile
- Amsterdam, he explains, maintains a fine balance of individual and collective. This was never a Wild West town. Rather, because Amsterdammers have had to work together to maintain the dikes, society has been strong. The 17th-century merchants created “some of Europe’s first orphanages, homes for the elderly” and neighbourhoods where rich and poor l... See more
from Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, by Russell Shorto
- One of the reasons that Here Comes Everybody holds up comparatively well in 2022 against its contemporaries is Shirky’s willingness to recognize how broader social forces might thwart the “inevitable” effects of a technology on society.
from Here Went Everybody by Tim Hwang
- Most startups don’t die because someone is actively trying to kill them, but simply because the founders stop trying to keep them alive.
from Death is the default by Gena Gorlin
- Productizing venture means taking everything that venture capitalists do — from sourcing companies to evaluating companies to adding value to founders — and using software or networks to do it better.
from Productizing Venture by Erik Torenberg
- VCs don’t practice what they preach with respect to their own businesses.
from Productizing Venture by Erik Torenberg