Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
The Case for Software Criticism
wired.com
Everything in moderation and Knowledge Management
Stack Overflow’s commitment to purity has served it well. But if other platforms with a different — non-diabolical — culture offer what Stack Overflow does, then why stick to a place that is no longer the rare commodity it used to be?
Stack Overflow has enduring popularity, at least in software. Why is it that a resource like it — a centralized, global resource to ask questions — is not as common in other industries?
In-group Cheems is particularly pernicious because of the strength of peer effects. If you are surrounded by like-minded, ambitious, will-to-act-havers, you are unlikely to find yourself much affected by In-group Cheems.
#1: In-group Cheems
Areas of opportunity; hiring, creating products for founders like NFX's Signal, and processes such as indexing people instead of companies.
Erik Torenberg • Productizing Venture
None of this is to say we shouldn’t regard chronic illnesses or pandemics as the scourges that they are, nor that we shouldn’t fight them with everything we’ve got. On the contrary, remembering that “death is the default” should mobilize us to fight them with everything we’ve got—recognizing that the one thing we’ve got, in the fight against... See more
Gena Gorlin • Death is the default
The optimism of Web 2.0 rested in large part on its pure excitement about the web as a fundamentally open-ended technology. In Free Culture, permissive intellectual property and remixing would unleash a wave of as-yet unimagined discourse and expression.
Tim Hwang • Here Went Everybody
What do labor activists, socialists, and mutual aid organizers see in Web3? Simply, a design space and set of tools to explore using towards political ends. Practically speaking, this includes an interest in transparent voting, funding of public goods, and broad-based ownership and governance of online infrastructure.
Dirt • Dirt: Solid(ar)ity
The startup ecosystem is experiencing a series of changes that can't be ignored:- cambrian explosion of funding availability- more value is being created on private markets- going from zero to one is no longer a dark art - ie more talented operators, more infrastructure to build quickly and cheaplyChange is coming to the VC ecosystem. Who will win:... See more