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 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
This looks less like a process of secularization and more like a paradigmatic shift from an institutional to a personal understanding of spirituality. In a qualitative study of a 100 teenagers in five major cities, Richard Flory and Donald Miller found that millennials are not “the spiritual consumers of their parents’ generation, rather they... See more
Casper ter Kuile • How we gather
The way managers are taught to run companies seems to be like modular design in the sense that you treat subtrees of the org chart as black boxes. You tell your direct reports what to do, and it's up to them to figure out how. But you don't get involved in the details of what they do. That would be micromanaging them, which is bad.
Hire good people and give them room to do their jobs. Sounds great when it's described that way, doesn't it? Except in practice, judging from the report of founder after founder, what this often turns out to mean is: hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground.
Publishing and
DAO bounties: For workers, it’s a way to get a taste of working in crypto, to help their favorite project move forward, or to earn tokens that will give them ownership in the new Web3 economy. For crypto start-ups and DAOS, it’s an affordable way to source cheap labor for development or marketing without having to hire full-time employees with... See more
Blockchain Socialist • 'Cowboy Bebop' Was A Warning
Venture has been a cottage industry for decades with a lot of participants who believe themselves to be the protectors and deliverers of innovation while sitting on one of the most under-innovated models that exists.
Fantasy Capital
Forget what they say—instead look at who they marry.
A person’s choice of a spouse—or if they aren’t married, their closest lifelong partner—is much more revealing than anything they say or do in public.This choice tells you about their own innermost longings, expectations, and needs. It tells you what they think of themselves, and what they think
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