One of the big problems in talking about trust is the lack of a common, popular vocabulary that has a good level of resolution and precision. How do you have immediately useful and compelling conversations about trust methods and practices with people when every other concept has to be defined?
Perhaps there are other paths to connect people to talking about trust. Sure, there is the structure of trust. Recent years in linguistic work has even seen the development of the structure of emotion. Is there a structure of relationships? Would that bring people closer in to talking about these important things?
The words "structure of friendship" hit me like lightning when my girlfriend came up with the idea a few days ago. "Whoa!" I said. Perhaps this is the big wrapper that will let people frame and reference structure of trust. Truststruct can seem disconnected from direct day-to-day life... although trust is related to *everything* we do, an abstraction model of trust relates to nothing in particular (kind of the flip side of the design of a general model).
I'll keep tinkering and thinking.
Please, I invite your ideas and comments!
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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