Sarah Drinkwater

Between AI psychosis, an ever-spiralling geopolitical climate + GLP-1, everything from our faces to feeds to institutions feels off. It's hard to know what's real and what's not = there's an impa...

One of my favourite rituals we hosted in the 2010's tech scene at Campus was Adam Hawley + TechHub's Startup Funeral Whatever we say about failing fast, shutting your company down is hard This e...

I fell in love with the early world wide web. I lived on forums and in blog and games, and when I was off my computer I spent all my time trying to get everyone I knew irl into this magical new wor...

One of the most critical things to work on right now is maximising human opportunities in a post AI or post AGI world The opportunities of tomorrow will not look like the opportunities of the past...

Just back from a whirlwind ten days in my old hometown San Francisco and WHAT timing; Block layoffs, Anthropic/OpenAI and US government, OpenClaw mania, the start of a new war. Wrote up what I hear...

Nothing cooler than an extremely overexcited "robots!!" video featuring Common Magic favourites Automated Architecture (AUAR) + many more brilliant robotics startups Deployment in the real world >...

Escargot are building the celebration layer of the internet. When I first met Aaron Albert and Andrew Gold what stood out was their confidence zigging where others zag partly based on their deep u...

The most important decision isn't the decision to build. It's WHAT to build + WHO to build it with. Shreman Shrestha & I both love South Park Commons -1 to 0 (stealing it with pride). London la...

The best founders pick who they want. Common Magic works hard to be chosen. It feels grand to have operating principles as a team of one investing at pre-seed. But how you work is the work, and ...

Software was always meant to be personal ❣️ Meet Dreamer You've probably played around with agents. But the sheer system behind them - from integrations with the tools you use daily to strong ...

Skills that exfiltrate your data. Over-permissive setups that accidentally expose. Whether you spent this weekend building little lobsters or not, we've all seen the challenges that come in let...

I always think Martha Lane Fox is such an underrated polymath. At lunch this week, we talked about how much our thinking on defence has evolved. Highly recommend you read this piece going deep on ...

Massive news for Europe in a critical time - EU–INC is go! You can sit back and complain, or you can build the communities, companies + coalitions Europe needs. I choose the latter & hope you do ...

World Fairs launched the telephone, the touchscreen, broadcast TV, the Ford Mustang, the Eiffel Tower & so much more; mass market moments where 50M+ people could walk around the future for $1. We...

📢 Community Lead, /dev/agents 📢 It's a wildly exciting time for the "personal software" dream. If you've been building your perfect AI-native tools (vibe, code, no code), tending insight-rich Dis...

"Wealth is a means, not an end.... but it fuels all our ends. If what you want is a fairer society, you need people to feel they're playing a positive sum game, not scrapping over a shrinking pie"...

If we’ve ever worked together, I’ve probably said to you; you’re the driver. By that, I mean; have agency, form opinions, take charge, act boldly, change course if necessary, bring people with you...

Building a beloved product and brand one shitpost at a time Excited to interview 🦔 james hawkins PostHog at Granola tonight on being radically open as a company, their recent AI product evolutions...

The best commercial partnerships balance trust with speed. Can we technically integrate? Who's the right stakeholder? When's the best time in the budget cycle to buy? Without the right data, you'...

Tonight 🔥 If you're coming; please come early, we've had intense interest + had to turn away almost 500 signups. Also - what should I ask Thomas Wolf + Sélim Benayat about building next-gen har...