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Trust Is Not Simply A Matter Of Truthfulness, Or Even Constancy. It Is Also A Matter Of Amity And Goodwill. We Trust Those Who Have Our Best Interests At Heart, And Mistrust Those Who Seem Deaf To Our Concerns.

I Live A Half Mile From The San Andreas Fault - A Fact That Bubbles Up Into My Consciousness Every Time Some Other Part Of The World Experiences An Earthquake. I Sometimes Wonder Whether This Subterranean Sense Of Impending Disaster Is At Least Partly Responsible For Silicon Valley's Feverish, Get-it-done-yesterday Work Norms.

In An Ideal World, An Individual's Institutional Power Would Be Correlated Perfectly With His Or Her Value-add. In Practice, This Is Seldom The Case.

It Doesn't Matter Much Where Your Company Sits In Its Industry Ecosystem, Nor How Vertically Or Horizontally Integrated It Is - What Matters Is Its Relative 'share Of Customer Value' In The Final Product Or Solution, And Its Cost Of Producing That Value.

Influence Is Like Water. Always Flowing Somewhere.