Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product strategy at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
So there is a way in which Shabbat is more philosophically important now than it has been in previous centuries. And of course, there’s also the secondary element, around 100 years old, of Shabbat being defined by the kinds of technologies that we do not engage in on that day, which was not something that Shabbat was designed for. Shabbat took on... See more
Have you tried unplugging and plugging yourself back in again?
If this is all downstream of a small and relatively well-off group of high frequency posters (some of our elected officials among them), that would suggest what we might call an ‘elite radicalization’ theory of online politics. The idea is that social media has empowered a (relatively) small group of political influencers who, in response to the... See more
And yet, precisely as the platforms became more universal, they became more destructive of community. Communal in clusion relies on ex clusion: some notion of who is and is not a member of the group, and some ways of enforcing that boundary.
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
As a result, for many users to realistically participate in curation, tools for authoring classifiers should support rapid initialization . As end users often-times engage with internet content as a leisure activity, a successful tool should allow them to quickly and intuitively build an initial classifier with decent performance.
End User Authoring of Personalized Content Classifiers: Comparing Example Labeling, Rule Writing, and LLM Prompting
Social Platform Trust & Safety
from the chat app Quiet (https://tryquiet.org/) - good example of a “threat model” for a communications/social platform
This research looks at the influence of three commonly cited features on the success of digital local news outlets: the background of the publisher, experimentation with different revenue streams, and the wealth of the surrounding community. Of the three, only the wealth of the community is statistically correlated with “success” (which we define... See more
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People will pay for the convenience of not poring through internet sludge all day and having someone clarify what they need to know.”
Kyle Chayka • 🟧 Aggregation theory
What can someone who's built multiple billion-dollar companies teach you?
Some lessons from my conversation with Brad Jacobs:
1. If you get the major trend right, you can make mistakes and still succeed.
2. If you want extraordinary results, you can’t think like... See more
Shane Parrishx.comWhat can someone who's built multiple billion-dollar companies teach you? Some lessons from my conversation with Brad Jacobs: 1. If you get the major trend right, you can make mistakes and still succeed. 2. If you want extraordinary results, you can’t think like everyone else. 3. Complexity hides opportunity. 4. Focus on return on capital and return on time. 5. Your job is to multiply shareholder wealth. 6. Problems are assets, not liabilities. 7. Anyone can buy a company; integration creates (or destroys) value. 8. Companies don’t go bankrupt from bad ideas. They go bankrupt from too much debt. 9. Speed without quality is reckless. Quality without speed is irrelevant. 10. Rigid plans miss opportunities; improvisation captures them. 11. Being liked and being contrarian aren’t opposites; you need both. 12. So much of business success comes from keeping your head in a good place. 13. Look for people motivated by money. This is capitalism, not a charity. (Must have integrity.) 14. The most powerful thing in any relationship is giving someone 100% of your attention. 15. Standardization enables scale. 16. Ask the top employees what they’d change; they know reality. 17. Survey employees constantly. They know where the opportunities hide. 18. Reward people for helping others win, not just for winning alone. 19. People need to feel understood before they’ll accept change. 20. You can’t fake appreciation. Rearrange your brain to see the real good in people. 21. Ask what shouldn’t change. The good stuff tells you as much as the problems. 22. How you end a meeting matters more than how you start it. 23. Feelings count in business. You want the love vibe, not the hate vibe. 24. Musicians make better CEOs than MBAs because they know how to improvise. 25. Technology is an accelerant, not a strategy. (Brad Jacobs on The Knowledge Project)