Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
“Bad behavior is when feelings are greater than skills”
Instead of punishing behaviors, level up skills
Dr. Becky
A parent has 2 main jobs: Boundaries & validation
- Dr. Becky, on Trevor Noah podcast
A social media app that aims to be town square is different to a social networking app that aims to provide a smaller, safe community. The latter has a far easier time banning accounts from entities like ICE, because it can set a tighter set of community rules. So one lesson is perhaps that we need — or at least, many people need — a pluralistic... See more
Search engines built an ecosystem that benefited publishers and the platforms,but publishers see those same platforms as continually taking more value from the relationship -- as seen in efforts to force intermediation like AMP, and now AI, where sites get drastically reduced traffic in exchange for nothing at all.
And so people are blocking bots,... See more
And so people are blocking bots,... See more
And I came to believe that heroism is neither being perfect, nor doing something spectacular. In fact, it’s just the opposite: it’s regular, flawed human beings choosing to put others before themselves, even at great cost, even if no one will ever know, even as they realize the walls might be closing in around them.
the secret of new york is that it only really works at the extremes
not that the rich or the poor have it easy, but the middle is where the city quietly grinds you down. the rich float above the city, insulated by square footage and silence, moving through private doors. the poor learn how to make the city bend. they split rooms and meals and jump
... See moreLiving among different people also deepens empathy. If you grew up alongside refugees, it is harder to fear them. If you recognize the face of the unhoused person on your block, it is harder to dismiss them. Familiarity makes humanity harder to ignore.
