Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
The fact that the digital and the analog are interwoven is not the problem. Not only is it to be expected that all human activities connect to one another, but the mutual encroachment of different governance systems with one another is, under normal circumstances, highly desirable because it makes the resulting system polycentric .9 A polycentric... See more
Robin Berjon • Digital Sovereignty
...is what approach you use to *acquire customers at scale.*
Meaning, what's your *distribution* insight?
Not just your product insight.
Because if you build something good, often they will not simply come.
Julian Shapirox.com
People look at great product teams and assume they win because they are faster at shipping, but the reality is that they are just ruthless about cutting scope especially in the early days.
You don't have to be an amazing engineer to cut scope by half and go twice as fast.
Joey DeBruinx.comFirst, identity authentication can ensure that everyone on the platform is a human entitled to join the platform...no bots, and maybe no commercial companies. It used to be that knowing someone’s identity was necessary to ensure that they had rights to participate. But much of the toxicity of current social media interactions is about identities as... See more
Alex Pentland • Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation — Digitalist Papers
Pitch-deck advice: I don't think I have ever seen a fundraising deck getting better by using a designer to design it. The same goes for using fancy tools like Figma, Keynote, https://t.co/SeKkLrTe6G, or Canva. At @ycombinator we recommend people to use Google Slides and keep it…
Gustaf Alströmertwitter.comStop trying to make social networks succeed, stop dreaming of a universal network. Instead, invest in your own communities. Help them make long-term, custom and sustainable solutions. Try to achieve small and local successes instead of pursuing an imaginary universal one. It will make you happier.
It will make all of us happier.
It will make all of us happier.
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed
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worksinprogress.news
Bluesky’s approach to curation is based on the idea that people “must have control over
our algorithms if we’re going to trust in our online spaces” (The Bluesky Team, 2022).
The platform’s support for custom feeds supports this mission, offering “essentially a
farmers’ market of algorithms” (Graber quoted in SXSW, 2025, 54:18). Yet custom feeds
exist... See more
our algorithms if we’re going to trust in our online spaces” (The Bluesky Team, 2022).
The platform’s support for custom feeds supports this mission, offering “essentially a
farmers’ market of algorithms” (Graber quoted in SXSW, 2025, 54:18). Yet custom feeds
exist... See more