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 6 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
Santos: CEOs Who Do Not Intentionally Create Problems Should Be Fired
“CEOs, if they are not intentionally creating problems for their organization to solve, they should be fired or retrained immediately.”
Santos: Education traps leaders in incremental 'more, better, different' cycles
“I would say the paradigm that we are given is all about evolution more, better, different. So we're doing X and we want to do it. We want to do more of it. So we try and do more. If that doesn't work, then we do it better. If that doesn't work, we do it differ…”
Santos: Humans spend only five minutes per waking hour actively thinking
“From what I've heard, psychologists say for every waking hour, we only spend five minutes thinking. The other 55 minutes is spent having thoughts.”
Santos: History's greatest leaders contradict modern empathetic leadership fads
“When you look at the top leaders, you look at the people who had the huge, the biggest impact on their industries, like John D. Rockefeller Sr., and Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie, even J.P. Morgan, Howard Hughes, a lot of people don't think about him, and wh…”
Santos: Steve Jobs drove a paradigm shift by inventing the iPod problem
“No one knew they didn't have an iPod. It was something we didn't even know we didn't have. And so by creating that problem, he created a whole paradigm shift in how we engage music.”
Santos: Chaos is created by perspective, and self-mastery overcomes it
“Chaos is not chaos. Chaos is something that's occurring. It's something that's happening. Your point of view, your perspective, your belief about what's occurring is what makes it chaotic. So he who masters self masters chaos, you master life.”