Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Request For Entrepreneurs In Residence (EIRs)
- Don't freeze a topic to make a point. Think about whether the topic belongs to more people than just you. People get really pissed if you use a host power unjustly.
from rheingold's brainstorms: rheingoldian writing
- Making rules after launching, or changing them from the top down is a mistake.
from rheingold's brainstorms: rheingoldian writing
- The kind of rules established before opening day helps determine the kind of crowd that will be found there a year later. The early crowd has a strong impact on later arrivals.
from rheingold's brainstorms: rheingoldian writing
Formal Structure (Hierarchy)
Informal Structure (Influence)
Value Creation Structure (Reputation)- you can estimate the quality of someone’s opinions about large scale social systems by evaluating their experience as a small scale organiser if you can’t create harmonious relationships in a collective of 15 ppl, why should I trust your opinion about policing or governance?
- The goal shouldn’t be to recreate offline governance, online, after a period of trial-and-error. Internet-native organizations can’t and shouldn’t operate like geographic governments because they don’t face the same constraints. Once online governance models evolve past a certain point, they should be both different from and superior to offline one... See more
from Go Fork Yourself - Not Boring by Packy McCormick by Lightspeed Democracy
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy