Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product strategy at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Local Community and Local Digital Social Networks
Digital ←→ IRL
moxie.org • My First Impressions of Web3
so you have a planning doc for an upcoming trip...
what if you could look up driving times between key locations, without switching to a separate app? https://t.co/R09wxqdMhj
Geoffrey Littx.com
Over the last 50 years, people have shifted away from meeting and volunteering regularly in associations and informal gatherings such as support groups and Bible study groups, choosing instead to engage through “checkbook participation,” where we outsource and pay local and national organizations who hire professional staff to do the good works and... See more
Alex Pentland • Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation — Digitalist Papers
“checkbook participation”
I know that grief never ends. When a friend’s loved one dies, put the loved one’s birthday on your calendar. Send them flowers or a card on that date, and never stop doing that.
Mari Andrew • 100 Things I Know
I think that’s a common outcome in volunteer-based organizations—they rely so much on unpaid labor to exist that there’s really no other resource allocation strategy besides asking people who show up and succeed at things until they say no or stop succeeding.