Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Opinion: "Without leaders who, through their example and decisions, safeguard our norms and celebrate them and affirm them and reinforce them, the words on paper — the Bill of Rights, the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence — will never unite us.”"
Opinion | How We’ve Lost Our Moorings as a Society
polarization vs coexistence & cohesion
“Without leaders who, through their example and decisions, safeguard our norms and celebrate them and affirm them and reinforce them, the words on paper — the Bill of Rights, the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence — will never unite us.”
There are always going to be people who believe they don’t really need to depend on others, or want others to depend on them. And capitalism has produced more and more ways we can use money, rather than relationships, to solve our problems. It’s easier and easier to employ a courier, a therapist, a zero-hours contracted task-doer, rather than ask a... See more
Many of the nation’s largest trading companies were headquartered in the coffee houses, and London’s stockbrokers operated within them for over a hundred years. Only when those establishments fell into decline did the brokers finally acquire their own quarters and establish an Exchange. For many years, the insurance institution Lloyd’s of London op... See more
Ray Oldenburg & Karen Christensen: third places, true citizen spaces
the value of the coffee house - part to get coffee, but part to mix and mingle
come for the [coffee / news / something], stay for the conversation?
“When you look at the history of the internet,” says Jeremy Morris, associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “a lot of the early spaces for communities also became places where people would either trade or barter.”
Mia Sato • Teens are hacking Instagram into a modern-day eBay
Social Platform Trust & Safety
Do ppl trust fact checking orgs?
In addition, curation tools should enable easy iteration to improve initial creations incrementally, as so-cial media users may be more amenable to short tasks spread out over many sessions as opposed to s single lengthy task. Instead, existing systems often assume that users want to create highly performant custom classifiers in a single sitting [... See more
End User Authoring of Personalized Content Classifiers: Comparing Example Labeling, Rule Writing, and LLM Prompting
I think there’s an opportunity to create something very substantial here in Manchester: a company that revives local journalism across the country and connects people via storytelling , a means of human communication that goes back much longer than the history of newspapers. As the popularity of American magazine-style journalism shows, people pref... See more