The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 9 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Feifer: Facebook, not the digital camera, ultimately killed Kodak
“What killed Kodak wasn't the digital camera. It was Facebook.”
Feifer: Society routinely mistakes 1% problems for 100% problems
“Number four, we mistake a one percent problem for a 100% problem.”
Feifer: Cutting 'inefficient' meetings for four-day workweeks damages company culture
“How do you get to a four-day workweek? Well, what you do is that you eliminate meetings and colleague chit chat and basically anything that feels inefficient so that everyone's just focused on efficiency. But it turns out all those inefficiencies had a purpose…”
Feifer: Consumers reject net-new innovations in favor of better existing products
“People hate that because people hate new things. What they like is better versions of old things.”
Feifer: Everyday norms prove innovation wins despite initial opposition
“We really are the products of change, and we forget that. We, we're actually the argument for change because the things that we grew up with were the things that people had previously opposed.”
Feifer: Solving operational crises yields more goodwill than smooth, disruption-free operations
“When something breaks, it gives you an opportunity to Fix it or to do something nice. And then people are kind of more grateful to you than if you had just been a normal person and things worked fine.”
Feifer: Repeated questions from others reveal what they value in you
“If you listen to the questions that people ask you discover that what they're really doing is telling you what they think your value is to them.”
Feifer: Intelligence has shifted from memory retention to rapid information processing
“A sign of intelligence decades ago would be the ability to be able to easily retain information. So the ability to read something and retain it the quick recall of that information, that was a sign of intelligence. Now a sign of intelligence would be the abili…”
Feifer: Evaluate innovation by whether its problems are better than old ones
“So the better question to ask is, is this new problem better than my old problem? Because once we start tracking progress through problems, one, we just create the space for problems, which are inevitable, and therefore, when a problem arises, it doesn't shock…”