Sarah Drinkwater

At events like last week’s PactDAO panel, there is a noticeably differentiated and nuanced conversation happening. Between the polarized cheerleading from crypto maximalists and the straw-manning from leftist tech skeptics, there is a cautious yet optimistic embrace of crypto as a frontier for constructive experiments, with plenty of design space... See more

If you think where our food comes from, particularly in colder climates, you’ll realise it’s grown someplace else. As our bananas, apples, lettuce, corn and rice grow, they extract nutrients from the land. That food is then trucked, shipped and flown to where we live – and where we eat it and excrete it. Yet, we don’t return that organic matter... See more

Amsterdam was arguably “the world’s most liberal city”, to quote the subtitle of this well-told history by Russell Shorto, an American writer who lives in Amsterdam. Shorto argues that little Amsterdam “has influenced the modern world to a degree that perhaps no other city has”.