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 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
Book Review: The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
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Ideologies and Imaginaries in Blockchain Communities: The Case of Ethereum
The article examines the ideologies and imaginaries surrounding Ethereum, the second most popular blockchain technology, and its relationship with its technical design.
annbrody.comCrypto and Worldbuilding
Everything in moderation and Knowledge Management
Stack Overflow’s commitment to purity has served it well. But if other platforms with a different — non-diabolical — culture offer what Stack Overflow does, then why stick to a place that is no longer the rare commodity it used to be?
Stack Overflow has enduring popularity, at least in software. Why is it that a resource like it — a centralized, global resource to ask questions — is not as common in other industries?
A topic I am keen to write about is Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and what it might teach us about scientific groupthink and pandemic management, 2020—. So I will save most of this for then, but there is an interesting relationship between groupthink and In-group Cheems.
#1: In-group Cheems
ReFi seems hippie, but it isn’t anti-growth or anti-progress. It’s for a new financial model that includes and regenerates people as individuals with unique talents, communities as economic hubs, and the health and biodiversity of global ecosystems. Its participants want to accelerate the development of new, planet-positive technologies through... See more