Sam Liebeskind

The death of the obituary matters because local features can be an antidote to the trends of polarization and demonization. Cable news dehumanizes. Community news can rehumanize.

Of course, money is a transformative incentive. Donating our time and labor for free is a privilege. I’ve watched stipends, contract agreements, or permanent staff roles enable incredible volunteers to go way beyond what they could do without compensation. I also believe expectations themselves require expansion and redefinition outside of the boun... See more

Something that @jessepollak introduced to the @base team is "work zones," inspired by heart rate zones. It's been insanely helpful to clearly align the team, and balance the intensity of our work culture and sprints with important rest and recharge. As the year wraps up, the Base core team is going beyond Zone 3. LFB💪

But the problems of the speech platforms are not ones of bad actors at the fringes. Rather, they are baked into the incentive structures of the platforms themselves, through the kinds of speech they reward and penalize. The platforms are rotten to the core, inducing us all to become noxious versions of ourselves.

The hard truth is that no one gets to be in community without effort.

What's the "essential" non-fiction book about your city?