Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Infrastructural goods are strategic because of the manner in which these three properties interact. Without monopolistic tendencies, the market could correct with competition. Without the variety in downstream uses, the power of infrastructure would be narrow (and users in a narrow domain can more easily coordinate countervailing power). And withou... See more
Robin Berjon • Digital Sovereignty
The Art of the Art of Gathering
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The tl;dr? It all comes down to nurturing the network dynamics, not the technical features.
danah boyd • Dear Alt-Twitter Designers: It’s about the network!
Looking around, it’s easy to be disheartened about people and the state of the world, but on Reddit I have experienced the opposite: people naturally create community, and they are smarter, funnier, and more helpful and caring than I think we often give them credit for.
And this is not because our users are some special subset of humanity. They’re j... See more
And this is not because our users are some special subset of humanity. They’re j... See more
KG • Anthology #1: Reddit
It takes enormous discipline to NOT try to scale something that's working. But some things just don't scale -- and trying to do so can destroy the golden goose in the process. Many entrepreneurially minded people can't help themselves from trying.
“Our towns are where civic culture is created, for better or worse. As this polarized moment in our national politics has shown, civic culture can be poisoned from the top down. But it can be healed and unpolluted from the bottom up and the inside out. How the residents of Tulsa choose to make a civic culture will of course be different from how th... See more
Top Down Democratic Decline vs. Bottom Up Civic Renewal: Eight Working Hypotheses
At the most basic level, being an artful gatherer is being a creator of relevant ceremony. When @colinhanks decided to close his business @hankskerchiefs, he didn’t just shut the doors. He marked the moment with a wake. Watch this space all week for more highlights of how folks are creating modern ceremonies for moments they wanted to mark where there was no guide book. Have you ever seen a company or brand close beautifully? What’d they do to bring people in? 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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