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Cutting across these traditions is the distinction that matters most for our argument. Putnam (2000) separated bonding social capital—the dense ties w
And you have to offer it sustainably. Sustainability isn’t a thing you think about after you’ve designed a product. Your product’s business model is a
The first thing that strikes you when you genuinely listen to communities talk about journalism is that the problem isn’t that they have too little in
With Monitor Local, The Maine Monitor expands to civic news — written by local residents — for rural counties
We rely on good journalism to understand the world around us, but those newsrooms need engagement, subscriptions, and membership to survive. AI interm
The biggest exceptions are local news startups, which are building trust, evolving business models for journalism, and building far more representativ
The first thing that strikes you when you genuinely listen to communities talk about journalism is that the problem isn’t that they have too little in
exploring the bounds of social platforms’ responsibility to keep the spaces safe
A room is not just a data structure. The moment you draw a boundary around a social space and say “these people are in, these are the rules,” you have
There is access governance, deciding who gets in and proving they are who they say they are, and there is behaviour governance, dealing with what peop
The model Miller reached for is the I-9 employment form, with its menu of acceptable documents, one from column A or one from column B together with o
The model Miller reached for is the I-9 employment form, with its menu of acceptable documents, one from column A or one from column B together with o
shit you should read if you are building or care about how social networks are evolving
This is the part most debates about tech and democracy miss. The real question is whether the underlying architecture creates incentives that concentr
And you have to offer it sustainably. Sustainability isn’t a thing you think about after you’ve designed a product. Your product’s business model is a
A room is not just a data structure. The moment you draw a boundary around a social space and say “these people are in, these are the rules,” you have
Search engines built an ecosystem that benefited publishers and the platforms,but publishers see those same platforms as continually taking more value
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We rely on good journalism to understand the world around us, but those newsrooms need engagement, subscriptions, and membership to survive. AI interm
exploring a future of digital social spaces / networks where users pay
How ELLE France Boosted Subscriptions by Tailoring Paywalls to Reader Context
Social media differs from note-taking apps. Users provide content and interaction for free. "Why should I pay when I'm the one creating value?" Fair q
Not to belabor the point, but people will pay you because doing so is an easier way to solve their pain than anything they might be able to do themsel
Product strategy is the process of defining what you want to achieve and how you plan to get there.
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Don't Surrender to the Machine Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPod and iPhone, founder of Nest, partner at Build Collective, interviewed by @lennysan
And you have to offer it sustainably. Sustainability isn’t a thing you think about after you’ve designed a product. Your product’s business model is a
Not to belabor the point, but people will pay you because doing so is an easier way to solve their pain than anything they might be able to do themsel
But I don’t think platform companies should—or can—act as the governance layer of our online lives. In this, I share tech journalist and Bluesky board
Decentralized networks are harder to infiltrate and harder to destroy. This movement is not leaderless, but leaderful, and there are no few specific p
The protocol world has been trying to solve the problem of how to leave, and the next step is working on how we can stay together.
Danny O’Brien, a Senior Fellow at the Filecoin Foundation, has argued that decentralization itself should never be the “terminal value” we pursue—it’s
good stuff from around the internet on raising good kids, building a family, etc.
What’s more, another study establishes that knowing that their parents value kindness above achievement protects kids’ well-being.
Children who feel valued in this way, and who believe that what they do adds value, generally come to understand that they matter. And a sense of matt
For what it’s worth, in raising our own kids we created an effective, balanced, common-sense approach based not on rules but on three principles. Trea
Three Reasons to Be a Parent
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If left unmanaged, conflicts naturally tend to escalate in both scale and scope. AI should help us stay towards the lower left of this graph. But tha
Can AI Mediation Help Bridge Political Divides?
Spoken disagreement is more constructive than written ... - Nature
Exploring ways to discuss, debate, dialogue, deliberate, and generally understand and engage with different perspectives
A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy
If left unmanaged, conflicts naturally tend to escalate in both scale and scope. AI should help us stay towards the lower left of this graph. But tha
Can AI Mediation Help Bridge Political Divides?
Spoken disagreement is more constructive than written ... - Nature