Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product strategy at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Reclaiming national power to define and incentivise the creation of social technologies should not come at the cost of efforts to also improve the global technology landscape. One way to advance both aims is by enabling interoperability with existing and emerging initiatives to build and scale regional and global solutions that serve the public... See more
Digital Public Goods
“The boundary between public and private is part of the conflict between public spheres. For example, until recently, only feminists though domestic violence was a public concern, rather than a private matter. Democratic publicity therefore requires positive guarantees of opportunities for minorities to convince others of what qualifies as common
... See moreThe new public square is not centred on a stable set of shared sources; instead it is structured by a small number of competing, for-profit platform companies bundling a bewildering array of stuff for different people in different ways through various ranking and recommendation algorithms.
Audiences and advertisers seem to prefer this new reality,... See more
Audiences and advertisers seem to prefer this new reality,... See more
The essence of positioning is sacrifice. You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position. Nyquil, the nighttime cold medicine, gave up the daytime market. The focus of most marketing operations is just the opposite. They look for ways to broaden their markets by line extension, by size and flavor proliferation,
... See moreJack Trout • Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
I think that’s a common outcome in volunteer-based organizations—they rely so much on unpaid labor to exist that there’s really no other resource allocation strategy besides asking people who show up and succeed at things until they say no or stop succeeding.
To test an idea, you must build it. You can’t rely on the abstract – you have to bring it into the world to play with it feel it and only then can you judge whether it’s worth pursuing or not