It's Been a Minute

Love vs. Reality. Looking at Love Island | It's Been a Minute

Love Island gives us an opportunity to have some really healthy conversations about sex and dating and I really love that aspect of it. What I haven't appreciated this season and especially last season um because I think it all stems from that. It's starting to feel like there's this default to receive things or receive people in bad faith.

TED

Your Vaccine Questions Deserve Real Answers | Kizzmekia Corbett | TED

It wasn't that he was just reluctant to get himself vaccines or to get his future children vaccinated. It was that he had questions, concerns, misinformation buried deep down, for which he needed an expert like myself to answer without scorn and without judgment.

Fresh Air

Best Of: Tennis stars Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova / American Culture Wars

We have such a level of trust that we know whatever we say to each other, it stays there. We know where to give each other the best advice. We know how to. And there is no ulterior motive for no, you know, no playing games. And that's how we like it.

Fresh Air

Best Of: Tennis stars Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova / American Culture Wars

We have such a level of trust that we know whatever we say to each other, it stays there. We know where to give each other the best advice. We know how to and there's no ulterior motive for no, you know, no playing games. And that's how we like it because I think we both have had so many people say, oh, you're great, this and that, they don't, you know, they don't give you the real story, but we've always been honest with each other on that front.

Hidden Brain

A Secret Source of Connection

Most people think of music as something you listen to alone or share with people you already know. But research suggests that music can also be a bridge to strangers — that the experience of moving and making sound together can create feelings of connection and trust, even among people who have never met.

It's Been a Minute

Boundaries, bodies, and better sex | It's Been a Minute

We saw trust permeated decision-making, sexual health decision-making almost completely. So, thinking about establishing trust with a partner, that is what helped people experience comfort in a sexual relationship. That comfort then helped them to feel more comfortable with engaging in unprotected sex.

TED

How Community Notes Reduce Viral Misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter | TED

You can actually download the real algorithm code that runs in production. You can download the real data, the Community Notes and ratings, run the code on the data to verify that there is no funny business that we're doing on our end. There's no override button.

It's Been a Minute

Who needs to know where you are?

You don't have to trust that they're telling you the truth. You just get to see it. So it's also a different type of information.

Semafor

Semafor Tech Summit | Semafor Events

It takes forever to really build incredible trust. It only takes a moment to break it. And that's something that we are very aware of. And AI, it just it makes it that much bigger because the use of that information can be so much more destructive if used improperly.

Book of the Day

Ben Crump says 'Worse Than a Lie' is a legal thriller wrapped in Black culture

My grandmother, when I was a little boy, she would say, "What's worse than a lie?" And that is to tell the truth and nobody believe you.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Musk v Altman: Much ado about nothing

In a courtroom full of untrustworthy, unreliable people all fighting with each other, did anyone even have a reputation left to lose?

Semafor

Essential Leadership Traits for the Future with BCG's Christine Barton at Semafor World Economy

Real optimists are not cynics. You want critics in the organization, you don't want cynics because cynics don't trust you. Critics want to challenge the logic, they want to challenge the thinking, they want to interrogate, but it's not distrustful.

The New York Times

The 3 Songwriters Behind Kacey Musgraves, Morgan Wallen, Miranda Lambert & More

It is a fragile environment in the writing room. And if you can make everybody comfortable enough, that's why like the three of us, we we write together so much. There's nothing I would be uncomfortable saying in front of either one of them.

The a16z Show

Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

AI is transforming media, eroding trust, and reshaping how information is created and verified.

TED

4 Relationship Traps That Lead to Burnout | Eric Quintane | TED

We've learned that there are two typical network structures that particularly matter... Meet Kelly. Kelly is in what we call a cohesive network structure. That means Kelly has strong relationships with her colleagues, but also all of her colleagues know each other, they trust each other, they talk with each other frequently.

Pivot

Rahm Emanuel: “Nobody Believes Our President” on Iran | Pivot

I'm not going to tell you what you want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I think you need to know and we're in this together rather than trying to fight each other all the time.

The a16z Show

Balaji on Why AI Raises the Cost of Verification

AI simultaneously reduces the cost of creation and increases the cost of verification, and what that tension means for the shape of the AI economy.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Sergey Levine - Building LLMs for the Physical World - [Invest Like the Best, EP.465]

human trust and acceptance may matter as much as technical breakthroughs in determining when robots become part of daily life

Code Switch

Being an “ally” is kind of cringe. Why? | Code Switch

There's just so much talk and that's why there's a cynicism. You get burnt out from all the talk and all the things that you know whether it's safety pins or some other thing to show like I'm on your team. Like after a while it's like I I don't need that. I want you to actually do this stuff.

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

$1T Moved on Iran “Talks” — Did They Even Happen? | Prof G Markets

It's the most extraordinary thing that the most critical issue facing American financial markets is whether to believe the American president or the Iranian leaders about what the Americans are doing.

It's Been a Minute

The unbearable fear of being cheated on | It's Been A Minute

If we think of love as a set of behaviors and expectations versus a set of feelings, then it like brings in this other idea of what cheating is because it's instead of cheating as like someone being swept away by desire, maybe it's like they're doing a breach of contract, like they're not fulfilling the set of expectations that were clearly delineated.