Jerry Michalski (ma-CALL-ski) is the founder of
Open Global Mind, a project to help humans make better decisions together. He is also an expert on trust.
Jerry was on the front lines of the tech revolution for a dozen years as a tech-industry trends analyst during the dot-com boom, as Managing Editor of Esther Dyson’s monthly newsletter,
Release 1.0. He also advised corporate advanced-technology groups on whether and where to deploy exponential technologies like AI.
One of the 4,000-plus startups Jerry interviewed had a useful mind-mapping app called TheBrain. Intrigued, Jerry began curating his Brain then, over 26 years ago. Now it’s the world’s largest, with over 585,000 entries. You can consult that same Brain online, for free,
here.
In the mid-90s, Jerry realized the word “consumer” was a linchpin to understanding many of today’s dilemmas. Following “consumer” led him to the concept of trust, especially the many ways that consumer capitalism has broken trust. More optimistically, he also found groups around the world rediscovering trust to solve thorny problems.
From this mix of movements and ideas, Jerry is creating
Design from Trust, a process that can be applied in many different domains, which is a great example of how to rethink constraints. In this case, the constraint is mistrust; the solution is thoughtfully-designed trust.
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Find Jerry on
LinkedIn,
Twitter (509th person to sign up!),
Substack and
YouTube.
