Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product strategy at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Though people aren’t rational, I believe everyone is reasonable. As in, they always have their reasons, and those reasons always make sense within their worldview. More often than not, I wouldn’t do what someone else does — because I’m not them. But if I can understand the circumstances through which someone lives and sees the world, then I can... See more
But digital media hasn’t become the antidote to television. Digital media, empowered by the serum of algorithmic feeds, has become super-television: more images, more videos, more isolation.
Everything Is Television
Long-tail users of user-centered design are not given the degree of control necessary to adapt the design object or tool to their unique needs, and designers are faced with the long-tail problem mentioned earlier.
This is where design for emergence offers an alternative.
Design for Emergence
In design for emergence, the designer assumes that the... See more
This is where design for emergence offers an alternative.
Design for Emergence
In design for emergence, the designer assumes that the... See more
After more than 20 years of being consistently wrong and terrible for artists’ rights, the US Copyright Office has finally done something gloriously, wonderfully right . All through this AI bubble, the Copyright Office has maintained – correctly – that AI-generated works cannot be copyrighted, because copyright is exclusively for humans. That is... See more
The Guardian • AI Companies Will Fail. We Can Salvage Something From the Wreckage | Cory Doctorow
But the constant changing of these privacy norms might only work to confuse our subliminal user habits even more. Our brains are increasingly disoriented by the different rules of each platform:
On LinkedIn, people can see if I view their profile.
On Instagram, people can see if I view their stories, but not their profile.
On TikTok, people can see... See more
On LinkedIn, people can see if I view their profile.
On Instagram, people can see if I view their stories, but not their profile.
On TikTok, people can see... See more
MY PHONE IS FOR ME, BUT IT IS ALSO FOR YOU — USURPATOR
We found that writing prompts generally allowed participants to create personal content filters with higher performance more quickly, primarily driven by having the highest recall despite comparable precision across conditions.