Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
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
Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, by Russell Shorto
#1: In-group Cheems
keirbradwell.substack.com
Tokenomics and
Reflections on 2023
buttondown.email
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.
The innovators in this report say yes, not just possible, but necessary. They speak to millennials asfriends, offering positive and practical advice through clean and personable websites. They encouragean ethos of care for self and others and a mindset of abundance. They argue, explicitly or implicitly, thateach person is a change maker with the... See more
Casper ter Kuile • How we gather
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.
Tina He • [FKPXLS] The New Frontier of Belonging
But truth, unlike information, has a centripetal force that holds society together. Information, on the other hand, is centrifugal, with very destructive effects on social cohesion. If we want to comprehend what kind of society we are living in, we need to understand the nature of information.
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
But bounties aren't the future of work in Web3. They’re a primitive of some of the worst forms of exploitation under capitalism.
Blockchain Socialist • 'Cowboy Bebop' Was A Warning
