Future of Trust

When extraction becomes this pervasive, people opt out. They go dark and build walls around what matters to them.

And this is already happening. You can see it in the shift from public social media to close friends lists. In the rise of group chats, Discord servers, and paid Substacks. In people using fake names and burner accounts as default. In

Jasmine Bina • Repricing the Human Experience

Keely Adler

We need designers. We need developers. We need engineers. We are building a trust platform for web3.

Chris Cantino

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Vyara Ndejuru

Trust collapses at scale, but it doesn’t get rebuilt at scale. It comes back in small circles and places where the asymmetry can’t take hold. The ambient extraction economy doesn’t need to take over the world for this to matter, it just needs to drive enough people into withdrawal that your old playbooks stop working.

Jasmine Bina • Repricing the Human Experience

Keely Adler

Craig Newmark of Craigslist Has a New Mission: Saving Democracy

Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly observer.com

SSam Liebeskind

“I was taught that a trustworthy press is the immune system of democracy,” he said. “I could see an immune system not working, and I decided I needed to play a role.” He reached out to industry leaders like Jeff Jarvis to figure out what that role could look like. Newmark was particularly interested in how to regain public trust and fend off disinformation through good journalism, according to Jarvis, a professor at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. “‘Trust is the new black’ was one of his lines,” he told Observer.”