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 innovators in this report say yes, not just possible, but necessary. They speak to millennials asfriends, offering positive and practical advice through clean and personable websites. They encouragean ethos of care for self and others and a mindset of abundance. They argue, explicitly or implicitly, thateach person is a change maker with the... See more
Casper ter Kuile • How we gather
Amsterdam, he explains, maintains a fine balance of individual and collective. This was never a Wild West town. Rather, because Amsterdammers have had to work together to maintain the dikes, society has been strong. The 17th-century merchants created “some of Europe’s first orphanages, homes for the elderly” and neighbourhoods where rich and poor... See more
Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, by Russell Shorto
ritual and Humane Tech
Rituals are how we make meaning, personally and together.
In games studies, these worlds-within-a-world are called magic circles. A magic circle is the space where the game takes place.
We need ritual technology. Technology designed for ritual use.
Why? Most of the software we use daily is designed to engagement-max. Social media feeds, loot boxes, compulsion loops, gang gang yes yes yes ice cream so good. You’re caught in a feedback loop with the algorithm, and you are the squishiest part of that loop.
Where social media is compulsive, tools for thought are reflective. Where social media is here and now, tools for thought dwell in the long now. Tools for thought slowly build compounding momentum through low, slow feedback loops that point us in the directions we want to develop.
Companion presentation deck to Ribbonfarm's six part newsletter series on emergent management practice, lorecraft.
Venkatesh Rao • On Lore
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.
Robin Sloan • Specifying Spring '83
Belonging and
