Sam Liebeskind

I think that all the clamor around the need for new institutions has been right, but the premise of actually building new institutions has proven nearly impossible to fulfill. Institutions are definitionally things that are legally and culturally entrenched, with processes that are economically and culturally load-bearing. You can’t “just” make new... See more

Nearly every kind of organization I’ve looked at deeply has been a voluntary community. Brand communities, crypto governance groups, moral ecosystems, and new kinds of school are all opt-in organizations. That’s not to say they’re not important; people make life-changing money in crypto and make life-changing self-discoveries in spiritual groups.... See more

This sounds spectacularly self-centered: that you can only quit a thing, or modify your usage of it, when it fails to serve you. But if we think of our phones and social media as addictive products, which they certainly are, then the classic addiction model makes sense: you only consider quitting when the negative impacts (the dead feeling of the... See more