Sam Liebeskind

in every meeting, conversation, or encounter, you have the opportunity to make someone feel BIG or small. choose BIG. the best way to make people like you is to make people like themselves.

I’ve noticed a trend in the fediverse of thinking there’s nothing except open source and VC-backed companies. But there is so much in between. I love small, bootstrapped companies that just charge a fair price to users without outside funding or ads.

Some of my favorite apps and services are like that. Acorn, MarsEdit, Nova, Feedbin, Day One. You... See more

Here’s the other problem with Facebook and Twitter and even The New York Times. When you expose yourself to those things, especially in the constant way that people do now—older people as well as younger people—you are continuously bombarding yourself with a stream of other people’s thoughts. You are marinating yourself in the conventional wisdom.... See more