Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahd.bsky.social
Constant learner, infinite game player, investor, community builder, Londoner (for now)🍃🌲
commonmagic.xyz
commonmagic.xyz
Open call for Cypherpunk Camp - who’s coming?
To open, secure & free internets!
To open, secure & free internets!
September 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Open call for Cypherpunk Camp - who’s coming?
To open, secure & free internets!
To open, secure & free internets!
Book of the summer
If you have any interest in how ideas spread (or don’t) online, taboos, cozy web & the deterioration of social networks, check it out
@metalabel.bsky.social @nayafia.bsky.social
nayafia.substack.com/p/introducin...
If you have any interest in how ideas spread (or don’t) online, taboos, cozy web & the deterioration of social networks, check it out
@metalabel.bsky.social @nayafia.bsky.social
nayafia.substack.com/p/introducin...
July 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Book of the summer
If you have any interest in how ideas spread (or don’t) online, taboos, cozy web & the deterioration of social networks, check it out
@metalabel.bsky.social @nayafia.bsky.social
nayafia.substack.com/p/introducin...
If you have any interest in how ideas spread (or don’t) online, taboos, cozy web & the deterioration of social networks, check it out
@metalabel.bsky.social @nayafia.bsky.social
nayafia.substack.com/p/introducin...
Excellent practical talk on content moderation in decentralised systems @kuehlewindt.com @radicle.xyz at @protocol.berlin
June 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Excellent practical talk on content moderation in decentralised systems @kuehlewindt.com @radicle.xyz at @protocol.berlin
Humans can do hard things (esp if their rep as a nation state is at stake)
Lightroom immersive doc on walking on the moon in 1969 🚀
Lightroom immersive doc on walking on the moon in 1969 🚀
May 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Humans can do hard things (esp if their rep as a nation state is at stake)
Lightroom immersive doc on walking on the moon in 1969 🚀
Lightroom immersive doc on walking on the moon in 1969 🚀
💯
David Cameron actively went *against* the majority of his MPs and Conservative associations.
Section 28/Clause 2A was abolished in the face of huge privately funded campaigns.
I have less to no love for Cameron, but where is the *courage*.
Section 28/Clause 2A was abolished in the face of huge privately funded campaigns.
I have less to no love for Cameron, but where is the *courage*.
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
💯
deluged by
people telling me they’ve stopped using coaches/therapists & instead use Claude (feel so old fashioned for just telling a friend)
and
people telling me they’re retraining as coaches
quite funny
♾️
people telling me they’ve stopped using coaches/therapists & instead use Claude (feel so old fashioned for just telling a friend)
and
people telling me they’re retraining as coaches
quite funny
♾️
April 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
deluged by
people telling me they’ve stopped using coaches/therapists & instead use Claude (feel so old fashioned for just telling a friend)
and
people telling me they’re retraining as coaches
quite funny
♾️
people telling me they’ve stopped using coaches/therapists & instead use Claude (feel so old fashioned for just telling a friend)
and
people telling me they’re retraining as coaches
quite funny
♾️
My very favourite xkcd in @powen.net talk making the case for more investment in digital public infrastructure 🔥
March 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My very favourite xkcd in @powen.net talk making the case for more investment in digital public infrastructure 🔥
Tarot; yet another way humans try to make sense of themselves + the future
Nice little show @warburginstitute.bsky.social on history + cards through the ages
Nice little show @warburginstitute.bsky.social on history + cards through the ages
March 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Tarot; yet another way humans try to make sense of themselves + the future
Nice little show @warburginstitute.bsky.social on history + cards through the ages
Nice little show @warburginstitute.bsky.social on history + cards through the ages
the feminine urge for no more caesars
CHIC
CHIC
March 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
the feminine urge for no more caesars
CHIC
CHIC
you can just build things (towns)
inspired by the popup city movement + building environments for thought - great @patrickoshag.bsky.social pod with @devonzuegel.com
open.spotify.com/episode/4Xci...
inspired by the popup city movement + building environments for thought - great @patrickoshag.bsky.social pod with @devonzuegel.com
open.spotify.com/episode/4Xci...
Devon Zuegel: How To Create A New Town - [Invest Like the Best, EP.413]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
you can just build things (towns)
inspired by the popup city movement + building environments for thought - great @patrickoshag.bsky.social pod with @devonzuegel.com
open.spotify.com/episode/4Xci...
inspired by the popup city movement + building environments for thought - great @patrickoshag.bsky.social pod with @devonzuegel.com
open.spotify.com/episode/4Xci...
turns out you can just publish things sarahdrinkwater.medium.com/on-my-mind-v...
On my mind; very early March 2025
I’m spending this Sunday researching [weird industry] for Common Magic’s latest commitment; it’s a nuts + exciting time to be thinking…
sarahdrinkwater.medium.com
March 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
turns out you can just publish things sarahdrinkwater.medium.com/on-my-mind-v...
Reposted by Sarah Drinkwater
Developers Developers Developers
I'll be speaking about tldraw.computer at this new London event
lu.ma/fydqvtm0
Hosted by @sarahd.bsky.social + @auchenberg.bsky.social + @scalingdevtools.bsky.social
come say hi
I'll be speaking about tldraw.computer at this new London event
lu.ma/fydqvtm0
Hosted by @sarahd.bsky.social + @auchenberg.bsky.social + @scalingdevtools.bsky.social
come say hi
Developers Developers Developers @ London · Luma
Developers Developers Developers is a new event for startup founders, builders, and investors focused on creating tools and products for developers. If you’re…
lu.ma
February 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Developers Developers Developers
I'll be speaking about tldraw.computer at this new London event
lu.ma/fydqvtm0
Hosted by @sarahd.bsky.social + @auchenberg.bsky.social + @scalingdevtools.bsky.social
come say hi
I'll be speaking about tldraw.computer at this new London event
lu.ma/fydqvtm0
Hosted by @sarahd.bsky.social + @auchenberg.bsky.social + @scalingdevtools.bsky.social
come say hi
Londoners - interested in how value accrues to the data layer & what AI means for culture & copyright? / speaking at this fun event on Friday with @afterlife.bsky.social + others. Come join!
t.co/ZOSQUSmD2E
t.co/ZOSQUSmD2E
January 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Londoners - interested in how value accrues to the data layer & what AI means for culture & copyright? / speaking at this fun event on Friday with @afterlife.bsky.social + others. Come join!
t.co/ZOSQUSmD2E
t.co/ZOSQUSmD2E
Winter break reads
Building virtual worlds, sci-fi, startup excess + women’s takes on the city. Sounds about right
Building virtual worlds, sci-fi, startup excess + women’s takes on the city. Sounds about right
January 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Winter break reads
Building virtual worlds, sci-fi, startup excess + women’s takes on the city. Sounds about right
Building virtual worlds, sci-fi, startup excess + women’s takes on the city. Sounds about right
Back in the 70s, an artist buried a gold hare & published a kids book full of clues to where he hid it.
A longread from imho the golden era of the genre (‘10s) on this gorgeous personal site
www.planetslade.com/masquerade.h...
A longread from imho the golden era of the genre (‘10s) on this gorgeous personal site
www.planetslade.com/masquerade.h...
December 28, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Back in the 70s, an artist buried a gold hare & published a kids book full of clues to where he hid it.
A longread from imho the golden era of the genre (‘10s) on this gorgeous personal site
www.planetslade.com/masquerade.h...
A longread from imho the golden era of the genre (‘10s) on this gorgeous personal site
www.planetslade.com/masquerade.h...
Reposted by Sarah Drinkwater
Here’s a holiday treat for the end of 2024: a high-quality transfer of Ricky Jay’s 1996 HBO card magic special, “to date the greatest card magic special ever produced, directed by David Mamet of all people”. [kottke.org]
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants
Well this is something special, a holiday treat for the end of 2024: a group of archivists (including Chris Person) has uploaded an HBO magic special by Ricky Jay that has been largely unavailable since it aired in 199
kottke.org
December 23, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Here’s a holiday treat for the end of 2024: a high-quality transfer of Ricky Jay’s 1996 HBO card magic special, “to date the greatest card magic special ever produced, directed by David Mamet of all people”. [kottke.org]
Festive skeet; Hell is other people (‘s kitchens)
December 24, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Festive skeet; Hell is other people (‘s kitchens)
Hey! Longread* lovers. What’s the best thing you’ve read this year? Stocking up for break.
* all formats accepted, including tweets, books, podcasts.
* all formats accepted, including tweets, books, podcasts.
December 22, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Hey! Longread* lovers. What’s the best thing you’ve read this year? Stocking up for break.
* all formats accepted, including tweets, books, podcasts.
* all formats accepted, including tweets, books, podcasts.
If you have any interest in early technology or computer history (50s-90s) you need to go to the Tate’s Electric Dreams show (London)
December 15, 2024 at 1:47 PM
If you have any interest in early technology or computer history (50s-90s) you need to go to the Tate’s Electric Dreams show (London)
Finishing raising @commonmagic.bsky.social & wrote up some notes to self on persuading ppl to back something new + weird.
Extremely happy rn.
sarahdrinkwater.medium.com/raising-comm...
Extremely happy rn.
sarahdrinkwater.medium.com/raising-comm...
Raising Common Magic I
Yesterday I did final close on Common Magic I. I’ve had a few other first-time funds ask for advice; this is a piece for them (and you, if…
sarahdrinkwater.medium.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Finishing raising @commonmagic.bsky.social & wrote up some notes to self on persuading ppl to back something new + weird.
Extremely happy rn.
sarahdrinkwater.medium.com/raising-comm...
Extremely happy rn.
sarahdrinkwater.medium.com/raising-comm...
