Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
[Final] Integrity Institute Best Practices for Early Stage Companies Deck_ 2023-11-13.pdf
drive.google.comTrust & safety design tips for early stage social products
Over the last 50 years, people have shifted away from meeting and volunteering regularly in associations and informal gatherings such as support groups and Bible study groups, choosing instead to engage through “checkbook participation,” where we outsource and pay local and national organizations who hire professional staff to do the good works and... See more
Alex Pentland • Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation — Digitalist Papers
“checkbook participation”
civic renewal will hinge in the end on whether a critical mass of citizens come to recognize that they can best serve their own interests by associating with others to realize shared goals.
Daniel Stid • Top Down Democratic Decline vs. Bottom Up Civic Renewal: Eight Working Hypotheses
1. Most founders are bad at growth, so if you're amazing at it, the advantage is significant.
Consider: Most startups die not because founders are bad or products suck, but because they couldn't figure out how to get anyone to try them.
Julian Shapirox.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
Instagram Tests Reels Algorithm Control Options
socialmediatoday.com
Living among different people also deepens empathy. If you grew up alongside refugees, it is harder to fear them. If you recognize the face of the unhoused person on your block, it is harder to dismiss them. Familiarity makes humanity harder to ignore.
Many such experiments, both historical and contemporary, get this balance not just wrong, but wildly wrong. They make the mistake of being about missions first, and placemaking second. That’s a suitable approach for a conference, corporation, religion, or a political movement, but not for a place qua place. Even a virtual place that exists only as... See more