How not to build trust - Mathew's newsletter

How not to build trust - Mathew's newsletter

Last Friday I welcomed two "steps in the right direction" from W Social. But timing is everything.

How Can the Social Sector Rebuild Trust and Align Movements for Greater Collective Impact?

Civil society is under pressure — trust is declining, advocacy [...]

On Trust Infrastructure Trust underpins civilisation. It expands the scope and complexity of the pursuits within our collective reach by allowing us to act as a…

Who Can You Trust?

Reprint: R1403K Success in business unquestionably requires some willingness to cooperate through having faith in others. The question is how much faith and in whom? Decades of scientific research show that people’s accuracy in deciding if another can be trusted tends to be only slightly better than chance. But this isn’t because trustworthiness is completely unpredictable. It’s because the guidelines most of us use to make these predictions are flawed. We place too much emphasis on reputation and perceived confidence, ignoring the fact that human behavior is always sensitive to context and can often be better assessed by our own intuition. So when your company’s money and resources are on the line, how can you do a better job of gauging trustworthiness and thereby improve your likelihood of success? This article draws on emerging research to show how trustworthiness works and offers four points to keep in mind the next time you’re deciding whether or not to do business with a new partner: Integrity can vary, power does corrupt, confidence often masks incompetence, and it’s OK to trust your gut.

Show your work: The new terms for trust in journalism - PressThink

The transparency movement has finally come of age. Power has shifted to the users. Their trust has to be earned in different ways now.

W Don't Have Time | Offprint

"Trust community, not wealth" Holding power accountable on the open social web.

W Don't Have Time (@wdonthavetime.selfhosted.social)

"Trust community, not wealth" Holding power accountable on the open social web. https://woosh.link/wdonthavetime.selfhosted.social

Why “Trusted Publishing” Can’t Save Us from Social Engineering

Unmasking the risky illusion of npm's "trusted publishing" amidst recent cyber attacks.

Algorithmic Displacement of Social Trust

Access the PDF version of this essay by clicking the icon to the right.

Trust Revolution

Unfiltered conversations with builders, thinkers, and operators in Bitcoin and beyond. Exploring systems we trust, why they work (or don't), and what's next.

White Paper — the FIRST PERSON NETWORK

Part Seven: The four trust network effects in a two-sided market for trust.

Funded projects | Scaling Trust

Explore the projects we're funding in the Scaling Trust opportunity space.

Briefing_Building a New Social Web-20260218.pdf

Announcing the Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure

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mitchellh/vouch

A community trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate.