Sarah Drinkwater

@sarahdrinkwater

Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.

Are these limitations helping you be more creative?
— Exactly. It’s the most critical part. With any kind of creative work you start disabling as much as possible and narrow it down only to the necessary tools you need, and from there start making the work. That’s what I believe makes you super creative.
from The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space
Somewhat to my surprise, I found an answer waiting.I want to follow people who are interesting to me, in a way that’s simple, expressive, and predictable.
from Specifying Spring '83 by Robin Sloan
2. See how they treat service workers

People reveal their true natures when they deal with others who have no power and can never return a favor.
This is one of the most reliable indicators of trustworthiness that you will find.
3. Discover what experiences formed their character in early life

4. How do they invest their two most valuable res
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from My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character by Ted Gioia
First, most emerging firms raise small funds. Smaller funds generally outperform, as they can participate meaningfully in early rounds and a single outlier has the potential to generate strong fund-level performance, even if the fund is only able to garner modest ownership.
from Why new VC funds offer the greatest opportunities in Venture Capital by Francesco Perticarari
First, most venture capital firms use antiquated business models that prevent them from being able to move quickly, reach scale, and establish strong competitive moats. Most venture firms are built on a partnership model, like law firms.
from Productizing Venture by Erik Torenberg
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.
from Dirt: Solid(ar)ity by Dirt
Amsterdam traded worldwide. The 17th-century city had four times the income per capita of Paris. Foreigners flocked here, and were left largely unbothered. Shorto notes that Amsterdam’s tolerance was – and is – above all pragmatic. Tolerance was good for business, for social peace and innovation. 17th-century Amsterdam published perhaps 30 per cent... See more
from Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, by Russell Shorto
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
The vision, launching publicly for the first time today, is Coalition, a fund and operator network designed to increase diversity on cap tables and help founders access some of the top minds in tech.The fund is a $12.5 million investment vehicle with investors including the founders of Zola, Box, Glossier, Chief and Solv; as well as senior executiv... See more
from Coalition: A new fund meets new economic model

from The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space

from Specifying Spring '83 by Robin Sloan

from My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character by Ted Gioia

from Why new VC funds offer the greatest opportunities in Venture Capital by Francesco Perticarari

from Productizing Venture by Erik Torenberg

from Dirt: Solid(ar)ity by Dirt

from Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, by Russell Shorto

from The Future of Solo Capitalists | The Generalist by Mario Gabriele

from Coalition: A new fund meets new economic model