Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
The power of agency is, in practice, the power to build: to direct our intelligence toward the work of understanding the world and adapting it to our needs. It’s how we impose a purposeful order on nature’s chaos.
Gena Gorlin • Death is the default
Alternative to What? | Thomas Frank
thebaffler.com
late stage capitalism and “Alternative”
the patina of daring had begun to wear thin on the eighties’ chosen crop of celebrity-rebels. Entire new lines of insolent shoes would have to be designed and marketed; entire new looks and emblems of protest would have to be found somewhere. Consumerism’s traditional claim to be the spokesman for our inchoate disgust with consumerism was hemorrhaging credibility, and independent rock, with its Jacobin ‘authenticity’ obsession, had just the things capital required.
Out went the call for an “alternative” from a thousand executive suites, and overnight everyone even remotely associated with independent rock in Seattle—and Minneapolis, Chapel Hill, Champaign, Lawrence, and finally Chicago—found themselves the recipients of unsolicited corporate attention
Millennials are less religiously affiliated than ever before. Churches are just one of many institutionalcasualties of the internet age in which young people are both more globally connected and more locallyisolated than ever before. Though many millennials are atheists or agnostics, the majority are less able to articulate their sense of... See more
Casper ter Kuile • How we gather
The rapid collapse of the mighty and opulent Mughal Empire in the early eighteenth century stands as almost an enigma of history, but perhaps what was even more improbable was its complete replacement not by a rival state, but by a European trading company a century later. William Dalrymple charts the disintegration of India into a state of civil... See more
Book Review: The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
GP partnerships are highly time and attention constrained, making them the opposite of scalable. Most processes are run manually, and there is rarely much use of software or automation to help source, assess, or execute deals.
Erik Torenberg • Productizing Venture
The way managers are taught to run companies seems to be like modular design in the sense that you treat subtrees of the org chart as black boxes. You tell your direct reports what to do, and it's up to them to figure out how. But you don't get involved in the details of what they do. That would be micromanaging them, which is bad.
Hire good people and give them room to do their jobs. Sounds great when it's described that way, doesn't it? Except in practice, judging from the report of founder after founder, what this often turns out to mean is: hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground.
The Three-Body Problem: Finding the New Stable Points in Venture Capital
fintechjunkie.com
