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Developmental Spaces: Cultural incubators for a time of transformation | Conscious Communities

The whitepaper. Rosie Bell, Boaz Feldman and Rufus Pollock, September 2025.

Why Aren’t Mothers Worth Anything to Venture Capitalists?

The struggles of a breast-pump startup underscore V.C.’s blind spot when it comes to women and babies.

In the AI Boom, a Room of Their Own

FoundHer House, an all-female hacker house started by two students at the USC Iovine and Young Academy, aims to accelerate the growth of female-led, AI-driven tech startups.

Feeding the machine

The fastest growing companies in the world aren’t AI companies, but the startups that supply them with warm bodies.

Indie Startups - Neil Thanedar

10 years ago, my entrepreneurial goal was to raise $100M+ and make one $1B+ startup. Now my goal is to 100% own many $1M+ startups.

The Rise of the Decentralized Startup

I think we’re seeing a very big shift right now in how startups are created and operate. But before we dig into that, I want to spend some time talking about work. For centuries, work has bee…

Tech for... what, exactly?

How ‘tech for good’ launders the expertise, interests, and beliefs of technologists.

How Tech Startup Founders Are Hacking Immigration

Forty-four percent of Silicon Valley startups have an immigrant founder. Many tell horror stories.

Brainchildren

Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social; only a unified, multidisciplinary approach will yield a realistic theory of how they came i...

A new middle-class fraction with a distinct subjectivity: Tech workers and the transformation of the entrepreneurial self

With the rise of digital capitalism, a novel occupational segment has emerged: so-called ‘tech workers’. Members of this grouping render and encode the digital technologies that permeate contemporary social life. While there are many studies about highly precarious digital labourers, research on these digital professionals remains scarce. Based on 40 original interviews, the article explores the subjectivity of tech workers. Specifically, it asks whether understandings of middle-class employees as entrepreneurial selves with a holistic market orientation hold true for this grouping, or whether new cultures of subjectivation are emerging. The key finding from these interviews is that tech workers show contours of a post-neoliberal subjectivity. While the figure of the entrepreneurial self remains an alluring force, this study detected four transformative cultures of subjectivation: (1) a return of the critique of economic inequality; (2) a concern for diversity; (3) an ethic of mindfulness; and (4) a lifestyle that signals ordinariness. These distinct forms of subjectivity point to the formation of a new middle-class fraction. However, drawing on the sociology of critique, this article also considers how this transformation of subjectivity can be appropriated as yet another new spirit of capitalism.

Where are the field builders?

Appreciating the unsung heroes of technoscience.

Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.'

In the underground world of pronatalism, the elite think it's their duty to fill the earth with their kids — and are funding tech to make it happen.

Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.'

In the underground world of pronatalism, the elite think it's their duty to fill the earth with their kids — and are funding tech to make it happen.