Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product strategy at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Angles that spread usually check the following boxes:
- Surprising — presents unexpected new information or theories
- True — we actually believe it
- Important — has an impact on our behavior
- Relevant — related to domains we care about
- Cool — we think we’ll look impressive for sharing it
Nathan Baschez • How to Write Essays That Spread
🧠 The puzzle of vanishing member dues - Part 2
Saumya Gupta • Build IRL Newsletter #19
from BuildIRL team; exploring challenges builders have w/ “dues”
Digital Democracy and Democracy, peace, dialogue & deliberation
Waves: Tech-Powered Democracy - “Waves is a new digital deliberation process and tool that uses AI to enable participation both at scale and in depth. Waves integrates existing digital tools – Remesh and PSI – with new open-source technology, developed by CASM Technology, to simplify and scale end-to-end deliberation for local governments.”
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