#trust
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- 40 total
- Writing
- 29
- Book notes
- 11
- Publications
- 0
Writing
2025
- Dec 16, 2025 Trust But Verify: Safety Numbers In Signal
What Signal safety numbers actually do, and how to think about them without panic, jargon, or blind trust.
- Nov 6, 2025 Designing for Trust: Privacy, Safety, and the Social Contract Online
What it means to design online communities around trust, safety, and shared responsibility instead of just technical features.
- Oct 11, 2025 When Your Campus ID Moves to Your Phone: Questions We Should Be Asking
What to consider when campus IDs move onto your phone.
- Mar 11, 2025 Digital Resilience Staying Strong in a Digital World
How to stay steady when digital systems fail, overload us, or expose us to risk.
2024
- May 18, 2024 Transitioning from Turning on Each Other to Turning Towards Each Other
How empathy helps shift conflict toward connection.
2023
- Dec 8, 2023 The Online Misinformation War: Navigating a Cacophony of Competing Narratives
How misinformation spreads online and why readers need stronger habits.
- Sep 24, 2023 Bending the Rules: A Review of Bruce Schneier’s Insightful Book ‘A Hacker’s Mind”
What A Hacker's Mind reveals about systems, power, and exploitation.
- Aug 6, 2023 Safeguarding User Data in an AI-Driven World: Ensuring Trust and Privacy Online
How AI can help protect user data in a breach-prone digital world.
- Aug 4, 2023 Building an AI Tool to Safeguard Against Cyberattacks: The Quest for Trustworthy Data
How trustworthy data shapes AI tools for detecting cyberattacks.
- Aug 3, 2023 Building an AI Tool to Identify Trustworthiness Online: Steps and Considerations
How to build an AI tool that helps identify trustworthy information.
- Aug 3, 2023 Introducing TrustSense: Your Safeguard in the Digital World
A fictional AI startup pitch about trust, safety, and authenticity online.
- Jan 21, 2023 Digital Wildfires: Tending to Social Media in the Classroom
How to tend to social media and critical media literacy in class.
2022
- Feb 19, 2022 Why Can’t We Agree On What’s True?
Why digital platforms make consensus about truth harder to reach.
2021
- Mar 24, 2021 Breaking Down the Misinformation & Disinformation Ecosystem
A framework for distinguishing misinformation from disinformation online.
2020
- Nov 2, 2020 Doors of Perception
How perception shapes what we think is true and why that matters.
- Oct 29, 2020 Combating Misinformation & Disinformation
How to tell misinformation and disinformation apart online.
2019
- Aug 7, 2019 Truth, lies, & learning in an online disinformation war
How disinformation war reshapes learning, truth, and safety online.
2018
- Dec 6, 2018 Critically evaluating online information while under attack
How to help readers evaluate online information under pressure.
- Dec 5, 2018 The most valuable thing on the Internet is your attention
Why your attention is the most valuable thing on the internet.
- Sep 6, 2018 What is trust in digital, hybrid, & physical spaces?
How trust works across information, organizations, and relationships.
- Apr 4, 2018 How to have a good life and be happy
A first-principles take on what it means to have a good life.
- Jan 3, 2018 Clean out your browser extensions
How browser extensions can affect your privacy and security.
2017
- Dec 29, 2017 How to use two factor authentication to protect yourself online
A practical reminder to audit your digital hygiene and enable two-factor protection.
- Dec 27, 2017 Understanding the differences between privacy and security
How privacy and security differ, and why the distinction matters online.
- Dec 20, 2017 Everything you need to know about encryption but were afraid to ask
Why encryption matters even when it feels inconvenient.
- Oct 19, 2017 Sincerity and Truth in Labeling of Online Information
How to judge credibility and sincerity in online information.
- Oct 5, 2017 Making healthy skepticism happen in teaching and learning
How healthy skepticism helps us evaluate information online.
2016
- Feb 25, 2016 Cognitive Authority, Digital Badges, and the Oracle of the Blockchain
How digital badges raise questions of value, credibility, and trust.
2015
- May 28, 2015 Noticing and Naming Elements When You’ve Been Hacked
How to notice, name, and respond when an account has been hacked.
Book notes
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- 2025 The Unaccountability Machine
Dan Davies
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- 2025 Universality
Natasha Brown
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- 2021 On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt
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- 2017 Twitter and Tear Gas
Zeynep Tufekci
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- 2016 The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
Michael P. Lynch
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- 2016 Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil
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- 2015 The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver
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- 2014 Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Michael Lewis
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- 2011 The Information
James Gleick
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- 2003 Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
Stephen M. Barr