Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Many such experiments, both historical and contemporary, get this balance not just wrong, but wildly wrong. They make the mistake of being about missions first, and placemaking second. That’s a suitable approach for a conference, corporation, religion, or a political movement, but not for a place qua place. Even a virtual place that exists only as ... See more
Hey hi hello. It's me, Ann, the yellow sweater-wearer. I gave this talk at The Love Symposium. It was called Understanding Interpersonal Conflict. Here's generally how it went:
-A conflict is a disagreement. Not all disagreements escalate into fights.
-Fights are caused by threat (real or perceived). Some people are more threat-sensitive than oth... See more
Seven Principles & Seven Practices on Empathy in Marketing - Marketing For Hippies
Tad Hargravemarketingforhippies.com
The Jersey Bee – About Us
jerseybee.org
doing interesting participatory stuff
First, it's OK if your distribution insight starts as a hack.
For Airbnb, their early approach was cross-posting room listings to Craigslist where people were already desperately searching for places to stay.
Airbnb had the inventory craiglist needed, and they took off.
Parenting and family stuff and Passdown Project
In the mid-1990s, Dr. Marshall Duke and Dr. Robyn Fivush developed a measure called “Do You Know?” It had a series of 20 questions, including: Do you know where your grandparents grew up? Do you know where your mom and dad went to high school? Do you know where your parents met? Do you know an illness or something terrible that happened in your family? Do you know the story of your birth? It turned out that having the answers to these questions was the single best predictor of children’s emotional health and happiness. Children who know more about their families tend to do better when they face challenges, be more resilient, and moderate the effects of stress. Our family’s story—our history—is linked to our own personal identity and knowing that we belong to a larger family. “Children who have the most self-confidence have . . . a strong 'intergenerational self.’ They know they belong to something bigger than themselves,” said Dr. Duke…
Vernā Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them
ted.compolarization vs coexistence & cohesion
“Stare at awesome black people…because when we look at awesome folks who are black, it helps to disassociate the associations that happen automatically in our brain.“
“Walk towards your discomfort”