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Power… — Medium

just like belief in the value of money, the existence of a divine being and the stability of the banking system, power happens because our collective belief in it legitimizes it and our unwillingness to do anything to challenge it accepts its presence.

Dynamic Semantic Clusters: Where user experience begins | Content Strategy Forum

How we decide to trust an answer has changed as well. Whether content comes from the official company site is of far less consequence than the personal reputation of the person who authored it. That reputation is based on the same mechanisms that drive trust in Uber and Airbnb: likes, endorsements, user reviews, and five-star ratings.