Trust Us? Are You Really My Friend?
It may be the most overused, least appreciated, most haphazardly defined word in modern life. Yet, it makes online commerce possible, discussion groups debatable and eBay profitable. Simultaneously, its abuse leads to urgent letters from Nigerian depositories, fuels goofball conspiracy theories, enables a menagerie of computer viruses, and funnels millions of hapless targets into the clutches of phishers and frauds. “IT” is trust. We no longer know what it means. As we stumbled into a



I speed through life building relationships, businesses and finding wonderful and horrible people. The premise of this space is to expose the bridges and chasms of trust that I encounter daily.