Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
The group administrators are responsible for bringing the movement's principles from theory into action. Every group administrator who set up a Buy Nothing group was asked to complete the Buy Nothing training linked above. This included introducing ideas like: what is a gift economy; understanding the benefits of diversity; understanding the issues... See more
Gifting with Integrity: Federated Digital Spaces for Mutual Aid Networks
Alexey Guzey • Lifehacks
Message boards and internet communities have existed since the start of the internet, but they’re becoming increasingly sophisticated. They now have the ability to raise funds, share decision making, and legally incorporate themselves. These internet-first organizations have already proven to be extremely influential online and off, and this will... See more
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…
Foundation for Public Code
publiccode.net
It’s our inability to let go of our agenda to get people to buy that turns people off and has marketing and sales feel gross. Sales pressure is predominantly created by us. When we realize that the real goal in marketing and sales shouldn’t be about ‘getting the sale’ but about focusing on the truth of whether or not it ’s a fit . . . everything... See more
Tad Hargrave • Seven Principles & Seven Practices on Empathy in Marketing - Marketing For Hippies
I’ll refer to the work that you do to decide what to build as discovery and the work that you do to build and ship a product as delivery. This distinction matters. As you’ll see, many companies put a heavy emphasis on delivery—they focus on whether you shipped what you said you would on time and on budget—while under-investing in discovery,... See more
Teresa Torres • Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
In addition, curation tools should enable easy iteration to improve initial creations incrementally, as so-cial media users may be more amenable to short tasks spread out over many sessions as opposed to s single lengthy task. Instead, existing systems often assume that users want to create highly performant custom classifiers in a single sitting [... See more
End User Authoring of Personalized Content Classifiers: Comparing Example Labeling, Rule Writing, and LLM Prompting
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
nytimes.com