Trust is infinitely more efficient, scalable, dynamic, and crucially - subjective. It defines humanity as a species. It is also more difficult, needs great coordination, empathy and belief in your fellow being. Giving up, being a misanthrope, and throwing over the chessboard for distrust tech like public blockchains is easy, and sometimes, it's the only way out. 

But we must do everything possible to embrace and improve trust, and avoid distrust as far as possible.

This thought is inspired by Yuval Noah Harari, though I also briefly wrote about this a couple of years ago:

Trust is infinitely more efficient, scalable, dynamic, and crucially - subjective. It defines humanity as a species. It is also more difficult, needs great coordination, empathy and belief in your fellow being. Giving up, being a misanthrope, and throwing over the chessboard for distrust tech like public blockchains is easy, and sometimes, it's the only way out. 

But we must do everything possible to embrace and improve trust, and avoid distrust as far as possible.

This thought is inspired by Yuval Noah Harari, though I also briefly wrote about this a couple of years ago: https://polynya.medium.com/rediscovering-trust-31bc4f3c8713

Love this. Trust is so human. 

“difficult, needs great coordination, empathy and belief in your fellow being” 

Yes, and also very worth it. The effect it has on us as people and our society is profound.

Thank you for writing this. It's encouraging me to write about my perspective on trust as well.

It would be handy to have persistent scorecards reflecting a person's general trustworthiness if we must deal with strangers

another great write-up
thanks for sharing

1000$farther