Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
Forget what they say—instead look at who they marry.
A person’s choice of a spouse—or if they aren’t married, their closest lifelong partner—is much more revealing than anything they say or do in public. This choice tells you about their own innermost longings, expectations, and needs. It tells you what they think of themselves, and what they think
... See moretedgioia.substack.com • My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character
Subtitle: Contemporary Visual Culture and the Acceleration of Identity Formation/Dissolution
Jonah Peretti • Negations: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
We’re seeing the rise of more authentic social media—apps that focus more on the present, and less on curating a flawless online persona for future benefit. I first wrote about BeReal on June 2, 2021 after my Paris-based internet friend Marie Dolle sent me a Twitter DM about how BeReal was spreading like wildfire across Paris. Twelve months later,... See more
Rex Woodbury • Welcome to the Internet: Millennial & Gen Z Ennui
#1: In-group Cheems
keirbradwell.substack.com
Our excrement is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource – if only we can overcome our visceral disgust of it.
Lina Zeldovich • Our excrement is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource – if only we can overcome our visceral disgust of it
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.