Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
Here comes the Muybridge camera moment but for text. Photoshop too
Welf's Garden - Welf's Garden
Just a lovely personal site - copywriter I want to remember.
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/5l7n5NxMKCAbsolute self-knowledge (even if as a Notion user/hater i am like: this is not true)
Best explanation I've seen of what makes a "brand" By Scott Thomas, via @jessicahische https://t.co/noYygFHMdZBreakdown: what’s a brand?
Ideologies and Imaginaries in Blockchain Communities: The Case of Ethereum
The article examines the ideologies and imaginaries surrounding Ethereum, the second most popular blockchain technology, and its relationship with its technical design.
by Ann Brody
Crypto and Worldbuilding
Reflections on 2023
Last year I began naming my seasons. The practice began when I declared it to be "Wife Guy Summer," a joking but real intention to manifest my life partner. It was a great comedy bit for the summer, but when I started dating someone seriously in September I thought that maybe I should name all my seasons...
Season-naming-as-manifesting is one way of doing it, but naming-the-season-when-you-find-out-what-it's-about is another….
Winter is upon us now, and I don't have a name for this season yet. But December and winter for me is always dream season, so perhaps I will call it that. Winter is for reflecting and clarifying, and dreams are for knowing and for inventing—for we know in part, and we prophesy in part. I have recommended to you the benefits of dreaming, and of naming your seasons. I hope that you join me in the great experiment.
- Open source projects, the infrastructure of digital public goods, have long relied on unsustainable funding sources like Github Sponsors, Open Collective, or Buy Me A Coffee. Besides the very few that have reached commercial success by transforming into enterprise SaaS, the vast majority of projects failed to find adequate funding.
from [FKPXLS] The New Frontier of Belonging by Tina He
- The core problem is not that open source projects are not sharing the money received. The problem is that, in total numbers, open source is not getting enough money. $2.5 million is not enough. To put this number into perspective, startups get typically much more than that.
from Software below the poverty line by André Staltz
In good hands There is a feeling I search for: being in good hands. It is the feeling I look to give and the feeling I look to receive. I know I am in good hands when I sense a cohesive point of view expressed with attention to detail. I can feel it almost instantly. In any medium. Music, film, fashion, architecture, writing, software. At a Japa... See more