Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
The mistake of the 1.0 platforms was to optimize for engagement—likes, clicks, and shares. This was a successful short-term growth strategy, but at the long-term cost of sustainability. For engagement includes not only joy but rage, not only mirth but sadness. Incentivizing these things creates hellishness, driving people to disengage, to become... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
Alt business model for local news: government provides a voucher, then each person can give it to a local news org they find valuable. Helps create public funding for journalism, but avoid government intervention in the content itself
Engagement journalism; study by Talia Stroud’s team at CME
Everyone gave me a version of the same answer: Taiwan’s democracy is less than 40 years old. Martial law is still in living memory, and no one wants to return. So Taiwanese people don’t take elections and participation for granted; as cyber ambassador Audrey Tang put it, Taiwan views its government not as a “fossilized” institution, but as... See more
The 1000 word Save Wisdom Questions. – SaveWisdom.org
savewisdom.org
Concepts & artifacts for AI-augmented democratic innovation: Process Cards, Run Reports, and more
Aviv Ovadyareimagine.aviv.me
