Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
nanransohoff.com
Why the ‘Weird Internet’ of the GeoCities Era Had to Die
onezero.medium.com
Welf's Garden - Welf's Garden
welf.co
Just a lovely personal site - copywriter I want to remember.
Areas of opportunity; hiring, creating products for founders like NFX's Signal, and processes such as indexing people instead of companies.
Erik Torenberg • Productizing Venture
The Hype Cycle Giveth, And Taketh Away: Ushering in a New Business Model for Pre-Seed Funds to Survive & Thrive In The New Normal
Sydney Thomasfirmbuildingchronicles.substack.com
Amsterdam traded worldwide. The 17th-century city had four times the income per capita of Paris. Foreigners flocked here, and were left largely unbothered. Shorto notes that Amsterdam’s tolerance was – and is – above all pragmatic. Tolerance was good for business, for social peace and innovation. 17th-century Amsterdam published perhaps 30 per cent... See more
Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, by Russell Shorto
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.