Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Here are 10 things you can do to improve how you onboard new members into your Discord (or any community platform)...🧵
David Spinkstwitter.comtown square that spans the entire globe. Our aim, then, is to show a way past this impasse. The two views ar
Jon Askonas • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
Remember: You'll be left with an empty feeling if you hit the finish line alone. When you run a race as a team, though, you'll discover that much of the reward comes from hitting the tape together. You want to be surrounded not just by cheering onlookers but by a crowd of winners, celebrating as one.
Howard Schultz • Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
One common denominator across these myriad settings is that people participating in them have opportunities to set agendas, make plans, take risks, lead and follow, look out for, and give and take with each other. In doing so, they can better understand their own self interests, how they correspond with those of others in the group, and how best to... See more
Daniel Stid • Top Down Democratic Decline vs. Bottom Up Civic Renewal: Eight Working Hypotheses
If you're interested in revitalizing a community, understand that it can't be done from the outside. America is almost 250 years old, and she has never seen a revitalization program that worked from the outside-in. If you want to revitalize a community, it cannot be done without getting your hands dirty. You’ve got to engage the affected... See more
Sam Pressler • Putting the "neighbor" back in the neighborhood
The Internet Transition
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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.
Julian Barnes • The Sense of an Ending
