Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
News Relay Network
newsrelaynetwork.org
Local News & Information and Local Digital Social Networks
“a newsroom that empowers its audience” - in the Tenderloin, SF, CA
Community and
All about social networks and Alternatives to advertising
Signal estimates it’ll cost them $50M to run the service by 2025
The prime directive in Japanese society is “thou shalt not discomfit thy neighbor.” Ever. Even on trivial things. Prosocial behavior is a totalizing ideology. People take it seriously. A blanket taboo bans any behavior that might create any inconvenience to people around you, let alone—heaven forbid—open conflict. Kids get this ethos drilled into... See more
Quico Toro • 10 Observations About Tokyo
13. The work that makes other work possible is priceless - and invisible.
Glue work - documentation, onboarding, cross-team coordination, process improvement - is vital. But if you do it unconsciously, it can stall your technical trajectory and burn you out. The trap is doing it as “helpfulness” rather than treating it as deliberate, bounded,... See more
Glue work - documentation, onboarding, cross-team coordination, process improvement - is vital. But if you do it unconsciously, it can stall your technical trajectory and burn you out. The trap is doing it as “helpfulness” rather than treating it as deliberate, bounded,... See more
But even when AI becomes more sophisticated, it will still be backwards looking, relying on an analysis of things-already-done. There’s certainly some truth to the claim that ‘everything is remix’ (Harry Potter = Star Wars; Jaws = Beowulf). But only some. It’s perhaps more accurate to say that ‘everything is remix + experience’. Truly creative... See more
I kinda like this of using "flashtags" to indicate "Hill Dying Status" when giving feedback to one another
the tldr is: it's a system to quickly communicate how strongly you feel about something when adding a comment to a doc/notion, sharing feedback in email or slack, etc....
#fyi — had a thought, no real hill to die on.
#suggestion — there’s a hill, I’m not going to die on it. But this is what I would do if I were you.
#recommendation — I’m climbing the hill, I won’t die on it. But I’ve thought about this a lot, and don’t ignore the feedback.
#plea — I don’t like dying on hills and that’s not really what we do, but this is a good candidate for it. You should trust me on this one, the same way I trust you on many other ones.
ofc not everything needs to be so rigid and structured, but seems useful in a world of remote work where non-verbal cues aren't as easily legible