Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
The mistake of the 1.0 platforms was to optimize for engagement—likes, clicks, and shares. This was a successful short-term growth strategy, but at the long-term cost of sustainability. For engagement includes not only joy but rage, not only mirth but sadness. Incentivizing these things creates hellishness, driving people to disengage, to become di... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
“You’re here, he’s there. If you trust him, trust him. If you don’t trust him, fire him and get a man you do trust in the job.”
Sam Zemurray, The Banana Man
Dinner Party
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Writing It Right: Reflections on Seven Years of Neighborhood Newsletters
Emma Durand-Woodstrongtowns.org
“I come not to teach but to awaken”
- Meher Baba
The essence of positioning is sacrifice. You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position. Nyquil, the nighttime cold medicine, gave up the daytime market. The focus of most marketing operations is just the opposite. They look for ways to broaden their markets by line extension, by size and flavor proliferation, b
... See moreJack Trout • Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
Everyone gave me a version of the same answer: Taiwan’s democracy is less than 40 years old. Martial law is still in living memory, and no one wants to return. So Taiwanese people don’t take elections and participation for granted; as cyber ambassador Audrey Tang put it, Taiwan views its government not as a “fossilized” institution, but as malleabl... See more
Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation — Digitalist Papers
Alex Pentlanddigitalistpapers.com