trust as an unquestioning attitude
- published Dec 2019 as a pdf
- has also written Transparency is Surveillance
- > “To trust, then, is to set up open pipelines between yourself and parts of the external world — to permit external resources to have a similar relationship to one as one’s internal cognitive faculties. This creates efficiency, but at the price of exquisite vulnerability.”
8 linked references
November 27th, 2025
- OOH I bet I could workshop an interesting example out of something from the trust as an unquestioning attitude paper!
June 10th, 2025
- my threads on twitter - new short one on trust, vibes with trust as an unquestioning attitude, uses a tool metaphor for trust, and gets at the power of self-trust for allowing you to be less concerned with other-trust
August 17th, 2023
- trust as truth in first-person (also talks extensively about trust as an unquestioning attitude)
July 19th, 2023
- tweeted this:
- Trust as an Unquestioning Attitude
😇 naive trust as not Q'ing because you've never been burned
🫡 forced trust as not Q'ing because not okay to question (says authority or inner desperation)
🧐 non-naive trust as not Q'ing because you know the warning signs and they aren't present
February 1st, 2023
- here's an essay that quotes that essay
- "on the insidiousness of the unquestioning attitude"
December 10th, 2022
- this somehow plugs in with trust as an unquestioning attitude—not the phrase itself but the paper, which talks about trusting tools as being like trusting people
- it feels like a betrayal if/when part of oneself suddenly rebels
October 5th, 2022
- wow, I have a TON of resonance with this
- it discusses how one can come to be betrayed by objects, which resonates so much with my experience of bad design
- as I wrote in 2012, in The Emotional Intelligence of a Smartphone
- well, I didn't quite manage to find the word "betrayed"
- > When I couldn’t use the interface, I felt hurt.