Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
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
Tim Hwang • Here Went Everybody
This is exactly what's happening in venture.
Kyle Harrison • The Death of a Venture Fund
Together, the two houses of the collective will drive a powerful flywheel, funding public goods that make Optimism blockspace more valuable, leading to more revenue for public goods, and so on.
Introducing the Optimism Collective
First, most emerging firms raise small funds. Smaller funds generally outperform, as they can participate meaningfully in early rounds and a single outlier has the potential to generate strong fund-level performance, even if the fund is only able to garner modest ownership.
Francesco Perticarari • Why new VC funds offer the greatest opportunities in Venture Capital
Alternative to What? | Thomas Frank
thebaffler.com
late stage capitalism and “Alternative”
the patina of daring had begun to wear thin on the eighties’ chosen crop of celebrity-rebels. Entire new lines of insolent shoes would have to be designed and marketed; entire new looks and emblems of protest would have to be found somewhere. Consumerism’s traditional claim to be the spokesman for our inchoate disgust with consumerism was hemorrhaging credibility, and independent rock, with its Jacobin ‘authenticity’ obsession, had just the things capital required.
Out went the call for an “alternative” from a thousand executive suites, and overnight everyone even remotely associated with independent rock in Seattle—and Minneapolis, Chapel Hill, Champaign, Lawrence, and finally Chicago—found themselves the recipients of unsolicited corporate attention
choose chance.
222.place
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