Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
- 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
- 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
... See morefrom My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character by Ted Gioia
- Forget what they say—instead look at who they marry.
This is a sure-fire technique, and it tells you important things about people you can’t learn any other way. 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
... See morefrom My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character by Ted Gioia
- 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
... See morefrom My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character by Ted Gioia
- 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... See morefrom My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character by Ted Gioia
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
- If capitalism individualises us, then care can bring us together – giving us cause to celebrate connection over engagement and relationships rather than subscriber numbers.
from Sunshine Machines: Towards a Feminist Future of Digital Care by Rachel Coldicutt
- If it is true that the era of collective experimentation online was short lived, then the next interesting question is why. One hypothesis that I’m intrigued with is rooted less in technological changes and more in social ones. Shirky’s dictum that revolutions start from behavioral change rather than from technological change helps us also explain ... See more
from Here Went Everybody by Tim Hwang