Foundation Followup Posts
Great! Here are 15 YouTube short topics that would drive attention to your Design from Trust post:
1. "Why Wikipedia Shouldn't Work (But Does)"
- The "expert review" model failed completely as Nupedia
- Letting "any fool edit" was considered professional suicide
- Now it's more accurate than Britannica and nobody talks about the vandals
2. "Your Bank Lied to You With Architecture"
- Those Greek columns weren't about beauty—they were trust theater
- The visible vault was saying "we're not running away with your money"
- Now we design everything the same way: fake trust instead of real systems
3. "The Traffic Light Scam"
- Dutch engineer removed all traffic signals and accidents plummeted
- Turns out obeying signals makes you stupider and more dangerous
- We've been building billion-dollar systems that make the problem worse
4. "Toyota's $1 Billion Trust Experiment"
- Letting any worker stop the assembly line sounds insane
- American manufacturers said it would destroy productivity
- Instead it created the most efficient production system ever built
5. "Why Your Kids Are Dumber Than Unschooled Kids"
- We track, test, and control every moment of learning
- Unschooled kids direct their own education with zero curriculum
- Guess which ones end up more curious, creative, and employed?
6. "The Word That Broke Society"
- I spent a decade figuring out what one word did to us
- "Consumer" turned citizens into passive receivers
- Once you see it, you can't unsee how it infected everything
7. "Hospitals Saved 30% By Trusting Patients"
- Default assumption: patients won't follow discharge instructions
- Redesigned assuming patients WANT to be healthy but need help
- Readmissions dropped 30%—just by flipping the assumption
8. "The Microfinance Heresy"
- Banks: "Poor people can't be trusted with loans—no collateral!"
- Muhammad Yunus: "What if we're wrong about that?"
- Turns out the poorest borrowers have the highest repayment rates
9. "Why Control Is More Expensive Than Trust"
- Surveillance, enforcement, compliance teams—insanely expensive
- People spend MORE energy circumventing controls than working
- Trust costs almost nothing and unlocks genius you didn't know you had
10. "The Unconference Trick Nobody Uses"
- Most events: famous speakers, rigid schedule, zero interaction
- Unconferences: show up, propose topics, go
- The "unstructured chaos" creates the best conversations people have all year
11. "Your Job Description Is Hiding Your Genius"
- "Stay in your lane" = waste 80% of what you know
- The best ideas come from people NOT doing their assigned role
- We've designed trillion-dollar systems to prevent exactly this
12. "How to Turn Bad Actors Into Good Ones"
- Most systems assume everyone's a potential criminal
- Some "bad actors" just want to be heard or belong
- Give them that and watch what happens (it's weirdly effective)
13. "The Scarcity = Abundance - Trust Formula"
- Every scarcity you experience is probably artificial
- Teacher shortage? Remove the PhD requirement, suddenly abundance
- Most scarcity is just mistrust preventing access to existing abundance
14. "Why Workplace Democracy Terrifies Management"
- "Workers can't make strategic decisions!" (Why not?)
- "They'll vote themselves raises!" (They don't)
- Turns out people make BETTER decisions about work they actually do
15. "The One Question That Reveals Mistrust Design"
- Ask: "What does this system assume people will do wrong?"
- Every security gate, permission slip, surveillance camera answers it
- Once you start looking, you'll see we've designed EVERYTHING this way
Bonus hook for each video: End with "This is called Design from Trust, and once you see it, you can't unsee it. Link in bio."
These topics are designed to:
- Lead with a provocative contradiction
- Challenge conventional wisdom with evidence
- Leave people wanting the full framework (driving them to your post)
- Work as 60-90 second shorts with high shareability
The mischievous angle is baked into framing mainstream practices (traffic lights, job descriptions, school) as possibly wrong or even scams, while positioning contrarian approaches as obvious in hindsight.