Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
DocSend - Simple, intelligent, modern content sending
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venture capital and perspectives on funding and venture capital (VC)
WTF VC by Slow VC’s Sam Lessin - great assessment of what’s going on in early 2025.
Pretty basic! And yet, nothing on the internet presently allows me to do this — not in a way that’s sufficiently simple, expressive, and predictable.
Robin Sloan • Specifying Spring '83
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 lifetedgioia.substack.com • My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character
Photographer and new media artist Olivia Alonso Gough, aka @bug_girl_69, discusses working with different tiers of creativity, establishing a routine, and not going to grad school unless it's free.
thecreativeindependent.comAreas of opportunity; hiring, creating products for founders like NFX's Signal, and processes such as indexing people instead of companies.
Erik Torenberg • Productizing Venture
We greet information with a fundamental suspicion: Things might be otherwise. Contingency is a trait of information, and for this reason fake news is a necessary element of the informational order. So fake news is just another piece of information, and before any process of verification can begin, it has already done its work. It rushes past truth,... See more
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Podcast series: a tale of money, murder, madness, and—of course—genius.
Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College on Apple Podcasts
Dunbar actually doesn’t say that we devote “grooming time” to the whole social group of 150. Rather he says that the 150 is made up from welding together much smaller “primary networks”: coalitions, friendship groups. Intensive grooming (language, for humans) is reserved for close friends. Our intimate group is very small, averaging just five.
Matt Webb • Dunbar’s number and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas
The Three-Body Problem: Finding the New Stable Points in Venture Capital
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