Sam Liebeskind

Top feeds heavily skew towards English content, although there were five Japanese,

four Portuguese, and a single feed each for Indonesian, Ukrainian, and Spanish. The

relative prominence of Japanese and Portuguese reflects the geographic distribution of

the platform’s users (Duarte, 2025). In terms of topic, identity-focused feeds were most

prominent,... See more

For Sand and Hunt, there is a clear understanding of what must be done. America needs a working-class media. It’s something that has preoccupied me for years. If we thought of it as precariat media, we would also include the falling middle class that I have called the middle precariat (including most freelance writers right now). After the 2024... See more

On the time YC cofounder @jesslivingston tore me a new one and changed the future org structure of Ramp: At YC, we attended weekly office hours where every startup shared 1/ their weekly growth %, 2/ their biggest problem, and 3/ what they were doing to solve it. That week in summer 2015 our... See more

Too many businesses don’t really understand that the core of their business is making people feel good. Whether it’s walking into a store or a restaurant, or being on an airplane, most people go through life hoping that good things will happen to them, and they return to businesses that make those things happen.

social change always begins with people who have “both a critical eye and a hopeful heart.”

In this blog, I argue that a solution to this issue is not only possible, but critically important to achieve. I propose that countries should reclaim the power to set the rules and mechanisms for digital spaces where civic discourse occurs, and apply an infrastructure mindset. They should advance social technologies to strengthen people’s... See more