trust and credibility
The Open Question April 1: How do you decide what to trust?
Right now, today, when you see a claim online or hear something from a friend or read a headline: What's your actual process? Do you have one? Do you mostly just feel it? Something else? When was the last time you changed your mind about a source you used to trust?... Trump, Stargate, and Vaccines for Cancer. I'm cringing reading articles and seeing videos showing Trump, Sam Altman, and Larry Ellison speaking about using A.I. to develop vaccines for cancer.
I have something I call "The Farmer's Market rule." I spoke about this on the Vendy podcast with Jordan. It is a metaphor for working with coaches, facilitators, and wellbeing practitioners.
When I go to the farmers market, I don't just look at the food people are selling.. I also look at the people selling the food.
I ask myself, "Do I want to look like this person who is selling me this food?"
I do the same for facilitators, trainers, and Wellbeing practitioners: "Does this person live in a way I want to embody more fully in my life?"
I would not go to Altman, Trump, or Ellison for Wellbeing guidance + wisdom. Maybe for advice and wisdom in other domains and themes.
We really need leaders who are embodying Wellbeing to lead our planetary and national wellbeing initiatives. I cringe when I see people who I judge as disembodied pioneering these explorations. It feels like a recipe for disaster with the possibility to cause a lot of harm to a lot of people.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-mrna-vaccine-cure-cancer-ai-2018701There's another layer here too that I'm excited about because I feel UpTrust can help facilitate us into a better direction, and that's that the AI training data is the average of the internet.... Supporting bipartisan Bromance? I think I’m starting to hope that JD and Tim can embrace and mutiny on their respective Presidential candidates.
I like that we’re getting deeper into the issues and realizing it’s not a simple issue solved by rhetoric. I like the civility even though the problems are heartbreaking and terrifying.
Good call Blake—as the platform content grows, the trust scores by topic take care of the range of influence for us—if we aren’t very trustable on a topic, we won’t get that much traction, and we can safely riff and have fun without worry of being cancelled or whatever....