Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Similarly, some users want to categorize their emails into more fine-grained folders other than the default “Spam” or “Promotions” folders [ 63 , 98 ]. As a result, there have been growing calls to empower end users to customize content curation classi-fiers [ 42 , 43 ]. In particular, researchers have argued for personal content moderation tools... See more
End User Authoring of Personalized Content Classifiers: Comparing Example Labeling, Rule Writing, and LLM Prompting
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
Phil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
"Every product in the world, the quality at the end of the day is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a shit about the product."
-Tobi, founder of Shopify
Proactive Solutions to Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
New Report Calls for Proactive Solutions to Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence — Integrity Institute
Social Platform Trust & Safety
Proactive Solutions to Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence - A report from the Integrity Institute and the Council on Technology & Social Cohesion
Parenting and family stuff and Passdown Project
In the mid-1990s, Dr. Marshall Duke and Dr. Robyn Fivush developed a measure called “Do You Know?” It had a series of 20 questions, including: Do you know where your grandparents grew up? Do you know where your mom and dad went to high school? Do you know where your parents met? Do you know an illness or something terrible that happened in your family? Do you know the story of your birth? It turned out that having the answers to these questions was the single best predictor of children’s emotional health and happiness. Children who know more about their families tend to do better when they face challenges, be more resilient, and moderate the effects of stress. Our family’s story—our history—is linked to our own personal identity and knowing that we belong to a larger family. “Children who have the most self-confidence have . . . a strong 'intergenerational self.’ They know they belong to something bigger than themselves,” said Dr. Duke…
I don’t think technology alone can fix that. It takes people who care about other people. Caring, I think, is the one thing that cannot be outsourced or automated. We can certainly create the illusion of care, and that illusion might be better than nothing for someone who has none, but ultimately I hope everyone gets access to people who care about
... See moreAfter building +40 apps over the last decade, I think the most valuable skill is an ability to correctly sequence the things that need to validated for the concept to work.
For example:
1. Users need to share the app X number times for the app to have a basis to grow
2. The shares then need... See more
Nikita Bierx.comIt's unfortunate because too much of a good thing (and it is a good thing – shrewd and well-intentioned people sharing the things that have helped them), when consumed in a frantic haze, becomes a bad thing (a cacophony of voices shoving advice down your throat, bolstering your belief that there's something you're doing wrong and if you just fixed... See more