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💡Weeknd Public Brainstorming 💡

Question I'm pondering: 

How do you scale individual trustworthiness, not trust in the collective abstract?

Follow along for my (and others’) reflections throughout the day.

🟪Warps for banger contributions.

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Principal at Cobalt Ventures. Write @ TheItinerant.io ; BenErsing.com Host: /venturecapital /finance /adventures

Most people want to be trustworthy and see themselves as trustworthy, and yet the world is full of broken trust.

Few people acknowledge to themselves let alone publicly that they've done something to merit losing someone’s trust.

Why and how does this happen?

Hypotheses:
1. We're a poor judge of how our actions or inactions will be interpreted by others
2. We’re reactive and rationalize decisions we’d consider untrustworthy if we were the observer not the doer

There’s limited objective and transparent codification of it

We have it in debt markets with credit scores, but that’s a very thinly constructed metric for one narrow use case.

Any solution has to be part tech driven AND part personal agency.

Just because someone’s credit record exists doesn’t mean every landlord does their homework and pulls it before signing a lease.

People who want to fake it (see tinder swindler), do so with relative ease because of how loosely-knit the global community is.  

Even in tight knit communities, the best deceivers get away with it for a while (See, Anna Sorokin/Delvey).