Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product strategy at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
how leaders act in meetings
Infrastructural goods are strategic because of the manner in which these three properties interact. Without monopolistic tendencies, the market could correct with competition. Without the variety in downstream uses, the power of infrastructure would be narrow (and users in a narrow domain can more easily coordinate countervailing power). And... See more
Robin Berjon • Digital Sovereignty
Facilitation, Meeting, & Gathering
What’s one word on your mind right now?
What’s an idea that jumped out at you from what you just heard?
What did this remind you of?
Share one way you might make this better.
On a scale of 1 to 5, how confident/excited/clear are you on what you just heard?
Raise your hand if you felt ____ about this. Raise your hand if you felt _____ about this. (Bonus points: can pick on a person to go deeper after that.)
Turn to someone next to you and share what’s on your mind.
Who did this make you think of in your life, either because it reminded you of them or you’d like to share it with them?
What would you need to start using/trying/applying this tomorrow?
What was your honest first impression when you heard about what we’d be talking about today? How did that change or not?
What questions do you have for [Name of person speaking]?
What’s a wish you have for this work going forward?
Let’s enter a No Dumb Questions zone: what’s a question on your mind that might feel silly or random or obvious?
Offer thanks or gratitude for what you just heard.
Who in your life would be skeptical about this? Why?
What fear is coming up for you right now?
Turn to the person next to you and explain your understanding of what you just heard. Then switch.
I would love to get at least three questions from the group before we break.
What was the most confusing/wild/inspiring/exciting part of what you just heard?
What was missing from what you just heard?
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
As Cosma and I, and Alison and James have written:
We now have a technology that does for written and pictured culture what largescale markets do for the economy, what large-scale bureaucracy does for society, and perhaps even comparable with what print once did for language. What happens next?
We now have a technology that does for written and pictured culture what largescale markets do for the economy, what large-scale bureaucracy does for society, and perhaps even comparable with what print once did for language. What happens next?
Work hacks and
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 everyone else. 3. Complexity hides opportunity. 4. Focus on return on capital and
... See morePerhaps, in an economy where the sale of information has made certain people very rich, you could argue that we collect these scraps hoping to one day turn passion projects into passive income. Of course, for most this is not the priority. Storing old files is nothing more than an innocent way to relive a pleasant memory. For others, though, the... See more