
The importance of Meaningful Patient Engagement
A talk on Patient Centricity and Meaningful Patient Involvement at the Human Brain Summit in Brussels - in person!

Evidence of how ‘trust first’ strategies work
Great article about Covid responses in Nature showing that trusting people is both appropriate and effective.

Why patient involvement in neurotechnologies is essential
Very moving article from scientists on why "innovation should be tailored to human needs, not dictated merely by technological possibility”

First ever standard for good governance
Is this piece of governance trustworthy? And will that help build trust in business?

Empowering yourself to challenge unethical tech
Distrust is heightened by feelings of powerlessness. Ideas on switching your service provider to more ethical ones.

Trust, expectation and a ‘trust bounce’
Interesting article questioning the accepted wisdom of people’s response to vaccine mandates and thoughts on trust

Police and public trust
Thoughts on policy and public trust using the 7 signals of trustworthiness

Trust Recap!
No TTFT for a fortnight, recalling recent trust fun

Bullshit…Trust…Governance mashup!
An interesting article on the ‘bonfire of the laws’ post Brexit which nicely melds my recent threads on bullshit and trust and governance!

Kindness and trust
Take the Kindness Test - the BBC and Uni of Sussex are linking up to answer questions about kindness. It seems to me kindness is important to trust

Building trust & human connection with The Human Library!
Digital tech is reducing human connection and polarising us - so someone invented a Human Library to help us share our experiences. Fantastic!

Trustworthiness & resurrecting Woolly Mammoths
Untrustworthy science

Bullshit erodes trust - why we do it and how to stop!
A light hearted, but deadly serious take on bullshit and academic research on what to do about it.

Trust yourself - Lessons from Emma Raducanu!
Much has been written about Raducanu secret is she trust herself, trust her strategy and gets on with it. This from before we know the fairy-tale ending!

The big downsides of Distrust First strategies
The devastating implications for all of us of increasingly embedded distrust following 9/11 here in Wired.

Evidence of Trustworthiness in Data Stewardship
Great report on practicalities of involving citizens in data governance from Ada Lovelace Institute

Another new tech frontier - Brain Fingerprinting & justice???
Following on the ‘success’ (not) of polygraphs, emotional facial recognition the new kid on the block is Brain Fingerprinting

Why trusting citizens can make things so much better
A new prosperity index devised with citizens opens up a whole new conversation about GDP and policy directions. New report.

Why we bullshit & why it might be important to try harder not to?
Me amusing myself with analysis of your ideas for bullshit phrases you hated most!

The most egregious breeches of trust imaginable
Inquiry into child abuse by almost all major religions - “the use of sacred texts to control and coerce, to silence and to prevent disclosure are common”.