Sarah Drinkwater

What Here Comes Everybody has me thinking about in 2022 is whether or not the dynamic era of organizational experimentation that flourished in the 2000s was way shorter than we predicted it to be, and if it is now effectively over. The apparently open-ended organizational possibilities of the 2000s web resolved in practice to a limited handful of... See more

Spring '83 is my suggestion. Spring ‘83 rejects the timeline and the inbox, aspiring instead to the logic of newspaper classifieds - read this and tell me what you think.

Bennington College, the wildest and wickedest school in America. In the last great decade: the 1980s. Bennington class of ’86 includes Bret Easton Ellis, future writer of American Psycho and co-leader of the literary Brat Pack; Jonathan Lethem, future writer of Motherless Brooklyn and MacArthur Fellow; and Donna Tartt, future writer of The Secret... See more

How distributed teams use stories to coordinate people and build knowledge.

In-group Cheems is particularly pernicious because of the strength of peer effects.  If you are surrounded by like-minded, ambitious, will-to-act-havers, you are unlikely to find yourself much affected by In-group Cheems.

Since last summer, a start-up in beta mode has been soliciting volunteers to take part in 55-minute sessions called “gathers,” where strangers discuss their deepest hopes and fears. The fledgling company, Peoplehood, is led by the entrepreneurs Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice, who combined sweat and spirituality in their last venture, the high-end... See more

Here Comes Everybody follows this tradition. For Shirky, this essential excitement comes down to an optimism about the open-ended possibilities of organizational forms made viable by the web.