2023 Annual Letter - Chamath Palihapitiya. To the supporters and friends of Social Capital: This is the sixth of our annual letters where we share our reflections, key observations, and learnings over the past year, including how the economic and technological trends of the year have shaped our thinking and our investment portfolio. Since I started Social Capital in 2011, our work has spanned the spectrum of technology.
From investments in Bitcoin and SaaS in the early 2010s, to our more recent bets in deep tech, the global energy transition and the creator economy, we have tried to find big trends and get behind them early. Our work has also spanned the life cycle of companies. From incubating new teams and ideas at the very earliest stages, to capitalizing fast-growing companies in both the public and private markets. Great opportunities are stage and sector agnostic, so we try to stay nimble and skate to where the puck is going to be. For me, 2023 was a continuation of the hard landing of 2022. What happened? Relativity Space.
Peace for All: St. George’s Day at a Shared Multi-Religious Shrine in Macedonia | PracticalMattersJournal. “Peace for All” is a video ethnography that documents the activities at a “shared shrine” in Macedonia on St. George’s Day. The shrine is shared by Orthodox Christians and various Muslim denominations to celebrate the birth of their respective saints, St. George and H’d’r Baba. This shrine is officially recognized as the Orthodox shrine of St. Nicholas. However, throughout history both Muslims and Christians have claimed the shrine as their own.
Therefore, both Christians and Muslims in Macedonia recognize the shrine as a sacred space. Today this shrine is shared by each of these religious communities, especially around May 6. There is a lesson about religious peacebuilding to be found in the video. For more information on shared shrines in Macedonia please see Elizabeta Koneska, “Shared Shrines in Macedonia,” in Shared Shrines, trans.
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