03 / Rabbit Holes

Questions with
no neat exit.

Persistent research threads: each one holds a premise, field notes, and the work it keeps pulling toward it.

Gathering evidence

How people learn to trust financial products

Which signals help people make a high-stakes decision when expertise is unevenly distributed?

Latest note: Collecting the signals people use when they cannot verify a mechanism themselves.
Open thread

What makes a startup feel inevitable?

What turns a useful idea into something people feel they were already waiting for?

Latest note: Looking at how trust forms before a product becomes familiar.