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Trust · OAJD
tv 2020

Ted Lasso

Building organizational trust through radical transparency and consistent follow-through. A show about what reliability looks like at scale.

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book 2006

The Speed of Trust

Stephen Covey's argument that trust is the single highest-leverage business skill - the hidden cost and dividend behind everything.

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book 1997

The Four Agreements

Don Miguel Ruiz on integrity to one's word as the foundation of trust. Be impeccable with your word.

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myth

Penelope and Odysseus

Twenty years of trust sustained across absence, uncertainty, and suitors. Trust as the architecture of a marriage.

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myth

Enkidu and Gilgamesh

The first great friendship in literature, built on trust between two men who were enemies before they were brothers.

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history 1215

The Magna Carta

The establishment of contractual trust between king and nobles. The first time power was made formally accountable to consistency.

Trust · OAJD
history 1965

Warren Buffett's Partnership Letters

Sixty years of doing exactly what he said he would do. The compound interest of unbroken trust.

Trust · OAJD
music 1961

Stand by Me

Ben E. King. The trust of knowing someone is there in the dark - the feeling of a reliable human presence.

Trust · OAJD
music 1972

Lean on Me

Bill Withers. The explicit architecture of mutual trust: I'll be there for you, you'll be there for me.

Trust · OAJD
music 1970

With a Little Help from My Friends

The Beatles. The trust that you don't have to do it alone - and the relief that this is true.

Trust · OAJD
music 1970

I'll Be There

The Jackson 5. A promise made with full conviction. Trust as a lyric and a pledge.

Trust · OAJD
book 2000

Bowling Alone

Robert Putnam documenting the collapse of social capital across American life since the 1960s. What a low-trust society actually looks and feels like, measured across fifty years of data.

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tv 2016

This Is Us

Three generations rebuilding trust after repeated fracture. The show's argument: trust broken between a parent and a child echoes forward in time, but so does trust repaired.

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art 1665

Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

A woman turning, caught between departure and arrival - intimate, unguarded, present. The painting exists inside the space of trust: she turned because she believed the person watching would see her clearly.

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art 1509

Raphael's The School of Athens

Every ancient philosopher in conversation, Plato and Aristotle at the center. A fresco about the trust that makes intellectual life possible - the shared faith that argument is a form of respect.

Trust · OAJD
book 2020

The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson's history of the Great Migration. Trust as the thing Black Americans extended to a North that had not fully earned it yet, and the slow, partial process of reckoning that followed.