Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
Secret Societies, Network States, Burning Man, Zuzalu, and More: Thoughts on New Political Communities
Matt Prewittradicalxchange.org
Community Building and Network States
knowledge shared between friends, while relatively unknown to the rest of the world, anchors many of the strongest social bonds.
strong communities tend to feature mutual commitments and common moral obligations, or relatedly, a sense of shared fate
The accumulated fruits of human agency and creative problem-solving are so ubiquitous today—in the form of agriculture and modern medicine, electricity and air conditioning, Uber and Amazon, Google and iPhones, widespread literacy and constitutional government, bank loans and credit cards, Zoom and Facebook—that we tend to assume them as the... See more
Gena Gorlin • Death is the default
Areas of opportunity; hiring, creating products for founders like NFX's Signal, and processes such as indexing people instead of companies.
Erik Torenberg • Productizing Venture
Uhh… a massive DAO just voted to “refund” one of their investors who was owed a 30x return ($5M+)
This is an insane story that impacts all builders in web3 and as a founder I need to speak out
Merit Circle DAO vs YGG 🧵
nametwitter.comAll three are, at various times, infatuated and disappointed with one another, their friendships stimulated and fueled by rivalry as much as affection. And all three will mythologize Bennington in their fiction—fiction that, as we’ll discover, isn’t always fiction, is often fact—and thereby become myths themselves
Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College on Apple Podcasts
One of the reasons that Here Comes Everybody holds up comparatively well in 2022 against its contemporaries is Shirky’s willingness to recognize how broader social forces might thwart the “inevitable” effects of a technology on society.
Tim Hwang • Here Went Everybody
