Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product strategy at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Public Spaces and
The quest for perfection is paralyzing. I’ve watched engineers spend weeks debating the ideal architecture for something they’ve never built. The perfect solution rarely emerges from thought alone - it emerges from contact with reality. AI can in many ways help here.
First do it, then do it right, then do it better. Get the ugly prototype in front... See more
First do it, then do it right, then do it better. Get the ugly prototype in front... See more
To support end-user customization, researchers have examined and built a variety of specialized tools that enable users to author person-alized content classifiers within social media [35, 40, 41, 63]. They have also explored generic techniques for non-technical people to build their own text classifiers
End User Authoring of Personalized Content Classifiers: Comparing Example Labeling, Rule Writing, and LLM Prompting
love this visual of the whole product/market fit journey, and what to measure along the way
(h/t @Coeluh) https://t.co/JRVOGckU1h
We can immediately rule out reproducing the current system in which a tiny number of companies govern permissible speech and what safety means for billions of people. We don't want social media that's like Twitter except without a demented owner. You cannot fix social media by having a non-profit run it or by guiding it with some ethical principles... See more
Decent Imaginaries
“Force a choice, not a comparison
“Startups need to force a choice, not a comparison.” That’s something that Mike Maples told me recently. If a startup forces a comparison, it will inevitably lose because the incumbent can just RFP you to death with incremental features.
You can’t come in and say, “Hey I’m building a CRM with a more elegant
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