Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product strategy at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
If left unmanaged, conflicts naturally tend to escalate in both scale and scope. AI should help us stay towards the lower left of this graph.
But that doesn’t mean the elimination of all conflict. Sometimes conflict is healthy. It’s often part of how people and societies change for the better, such as by challenging injustice. The important... See more
But that doesn’t mean the elimination of all conflict. Sometimes conflict is healthy. It’s often part of how people and societies change for the better, such as by challenging injustice. The important... See more
Conflict Superintelligence
We need to find the minimum viable scaffolding to get our work started and then focus on doing the work from there, making little adjustments as we go.
Nat Eliason • Breaking Up with Productivity Advice Breaking Up with Productivity Advice
After building +40 apps over the last decade, I think the most valuable skill is an ability to correctly sequence the things that need to validated for the concept to work.
For example:
1. Users need to share the app X number times for the app to have a basis to grow
2. The shares then need... See more
Nikita Bierx.comOur model, which we call Form-From , characterizes social media based on (1) the form of the content, either threaded or flat, and (2) from where or from whom one might receive content, ranging from spaces to networks to the commons.
Form-From: A Design Space of Social Media Systems
How to de-risk building a social network
The components that have the most engineering scope tend to be wholly reusable—such as the friendfinder & invite system. The fastest way to arrive at an app that resonates is to run rapid experiments by only changing the interaction model
Social Network Testing Stack for Rapid Iteration - create the reusable components, then just iterate on the ‘interaction model’
It's unfortunate because too much of a good thing (and it is a good thing – shrewd and well-intentioned people sharing the things that have helped them), when consumed in a frantic haze, becomes a bad thing (a cacophony of voices shoving advice down your throat, bolstering your belief that there's something you're doing wrong and if you just fixed... See more
Kasra • That tweet won’t save you, and neither will this blog post
