Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
The key difference is that sequential models maintain a dynamic representation of your current state. As you move through your feed, clicking on posts, subscribing to publications, engaging with notes, the model updates its understanding of where you are. It’s not just updating a long-term profile of your tastes. It’s tracking the momentum and... See more
Mike Cohen • How the Substack feed is learning to understand your reading journey
These other companies made shoes for a range of athletic activities, not just one sport. All the same, Weber’s resolve was strong. He was driven by a quote he wrote on his whiteboard on his first day as CEO of Brooks: “The secret to success is constancy of purpose”. This sentence stayed on the whiteboard for the length of his tenure, to remind him... See more
“You’re here, he’s there. If you trust him, trust him. If you don’t trust him, fire him and get a man you do trust in the job.”
Sam Zemurray, The Banana Man
The ideal user experience for a network-based product is often a moving target, based on the density of the network.
If your app’s value improves with each additional user (e.g., from more content or more users interacting with you), then you should likely sacrifice the user experience until the network value reaches... See more
Nikita Bierx.com21 best ideas in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay on Self Reliance (via justin murphy)
Most people do not trust their own beliefs. The essence of genius is simply to trust yourself—to infer that whatever seems most true in your heart is most true in reality—and for everybody else, too, despite whatever they may claim.
There is hardly anything more painful
And yet, precisely as the platforms became more universal, they became more destructive of community. Communal in clusion relies on ex clusion: some notion of who is and is not a member of the group, and some ways of enforcing that boundary.
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
Vernā Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them
ted.compolarization vs coexistence & cohesion
“Stare at awesome black people…because when we look at awesome folks who are black, it helps to disassociate the associations that happen automatically in our brain.“
“Walk towards your discomfort”