1119: Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Shares the Seven Rules of Trust

Assume good faith is a classic Wikipedia rule. If you meet somebody, whatever they're doing, they're probably a decent person. And then maybe one in a thousand is somehow actually being malicious. And so it's Very small number of people.

And so being positive about people and designing whatever your process is or your life or whatever around that premise of saying, oh like, I'm just gonna assume most people are gonna be good, they're gonna do the right thing, that actually works really, really well. That's Jimmy Wales. He's a co-founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Jimmy knows a thing or two about what it takes to earn people's trust, and today he is here to share some of that wisdom from his latest book, The Seven Rules of Trust, a blueprint for building things that last. So you'll learn one, how trust helped Jimmy achieve 52 times his previous productivity.

Two, the common assumptions that erode trusts, and three, how our systems can encourage mistrust. And if you want a quick summary write-up of these actionable takeaways, I recommend you drop on by awesomeatyourjob.com and sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter. And if it's your first time at Awesome at Your Job, welcome. I encourage you to check out what we've got to offer by looking at the very earliest episodes labeled Zero and then ABCDEF for a taste of all. that we've got to offer.

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