Hi Phil, I just came across this piece that your wrote back in 2023. Three years later, I built something similar verifitrust.me. If you are still interested in this topic, would love to connect. Let me know.
Hi Connie. IIW isn't virtual, but it's an unconference (OpenSpace) format, so you can attend and run one or more sessions on your work. See internetidentityworkshop.com for more information.
New to Substack and found your article through a recommendation. It was written in 2023 and curious what your thoughts are on this today.
In my view, businesses spend enormous effort guessing who people are, while giving them very few mechanisms to directly express who they are.
Much of today's digital economy is built on inferred data. Organizations collect signals and derive assumptions. What if trust ecosystems also allowed people to become first-class publishers of their own interests, intentions and preferences?
Not replacing third-party attestations. Complementing them.
The infrastructure for inference is mature. The infrastructure for self-expression is almost nonexistent.
Nice analogy!
Hi Phil, I just came across this piece that your wrote back in 2023. Three years later, I built something similar verifitrust.me. If you are still interested in this topic, would love to connect. Let me know.
Thanks Connie. I'll take a look. You might want to come to the next Internet Identity Workshop and talk about VerifiTrust.
Sure, is it virtual. Happy to attend and learn. Send me the details.
Hi Connie. IIW isn't virtual, but it's an unconference (OpenSpace) format, so you can attend and run one or more sessions on your work. See internetidentityworkshop.com for more information.
New to Substack and found your article through a recommendation. It was written in 2023 and curious what your thoughts are on this today.
In my view, businesses spend enormous effort guessing who people are, while giving them very few mechanisms to directly express who they are.
Much of today's digital economy is built on inferred data. Organizations collect signals and derive assumptions. What if trust ecosystems also allowed people to become first-class publishers of their own interests, intentions and preferences?
Not replacing third-party attestations. Complementing them.
The infrastructure for inference is mature. The infrastructure for self-expression is almost nonexistent.
Brilliant Phil, as ever. I’ve covered some of this too at www.customerfutures.com
It’s how and why VCs will break out in my view: doing things that existing systems *cant* do.
Rather than just replacing, with better/faster.