Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Subject line: What brought you here?
Body:
Hi,
I'm really glad you've decided to try our podcast hosting platform! I'm Justin, one of the co-founders.
I'm curious: what's happening in your world that brought you to Transistor?
(We're a small company, and it's always helpful to hear why people signed up).
Also, how did you hear about us?
Thanks,
Justin... See more
Body:
Hi,
I'm really glad you've decided to try our podcast hosting platform! I'm Justin, one of the co-founders.
I'm curious: what's happening in your world that brought you to Transistor?
(We're a small company, and it's always helpful to hear why people signed up).
Also, how did you hear about us?
Thanks,
Justin... See more
If a single status game becomes dominant, it breeds violence. Social fragmentation is a release valve.
polarization vs coexistence & cohesion and Status Signaling
Jaron Lanier on Status / Conflict
Why we stopped trying to engage passive community members—the 3 circles model.
Fabian Pfortmüllermedium.com
Better Questions than “Any Questions?”
grouphug.substack.com
Facilitation, Meeting, & Gathering
What’s one word on your mind right now?
What’s an idea that jumped out at you from what you just heard?
What did this remind you of?
Share one way you might make this better.
On a scale of 1 to 5, how confident/excited/clear are you on what you just heard?
Raise your hand if you felt ____ about this. Raise your hand if you felt _____ about this. (Bonus points: can pick on a person to go deeper after that.)
Turn to someone next to you and share what’s on your mind.
Who did this make you think of in your life, either because it reminded you of them or you’d like to share it with them?
What would you need to start using/trying/applying this tomorrow?
What was your honest first impression when you heard about what we’d be talking about today? How did that change or not?
What questions do you have for [Name of person speaking]?
What’s a wish you have for this work going forward?
Let’s enter a No Dumb Questions zone: what’s a question on your mind that might feel silly or random or obvious?
Offer thanks or gratitude for what you just heard.
Who in your life would be skeptical about this? Why?
What fear is coming up for you right now?
Turn to the person next to you and explain your understanding of what you just heard. Then switch.
I would love to get at least three questions from the group before we break.
What was the most confusing/wild/inspiring/exciting part of what you just heard?
What was missing from what you just heard?
Another lesson to take away, however, is that you need to refine your personal brand and know exactly what you symbolize — that is, which slice of the algorithmic network of consumer identities you represent. Eventually you run the risk of replicating the very institutions you’ve rebelled against.
🟧 There's a new media model
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.
Julian Barnes • The Sense of an Ending
WhatsApp initially achieved that global dominance in large part by doing just one thing very well: enabling cheap, private, and reliable messaging on almost any phone, almost anywhere in the world. But in the decade since Meta acquired WhatsApp for an eye-watering $22 billion in 2014, the app has been transformed from a narrowly focused utilitarian... See more
How WhatsApp ate the world
