Politicians often forget that people are much more complex, and are a mix of many identities – and each of these identities can be of differing importance to the individual.
— Christer Sturmark“Hip hop, in my view, stands at the vanguard of cultural and technological adoption, consistently ahead in both marketing and technological innovations. If you aim to create cutting-edge businesses, there's a lot to learn from these fields, which consistently remain at the forefront.”— Devo Harris
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Magical thinking is a bi-product of cognitive process that were useful in our evolutionary survival. We're so good at seeing patterns that we see patterns everywhere, even when they don't exist.
— Christer SturmarkWe have to be aware of our cognitive fallacies to build some immunity to our cognitive traps. We can never get rid of our bias, but we can be more aware of it.
— Christer SturmarkOur cognitive capability to reason has not evolved to find truth, it evolved to help us survive and that means that we sometimes find it easier to stay with a group rather than believe the correct thing.
— Christer SturmarkTruth is a quality of reality. It has nothing to do with what I believe. Truth, when it comes to empirical issues, is an objective thing. Whether something is true or not is independent of whether I think it is true or not, and a lot of people confuse this.
— Christer SturmarkNFTs allow game economies to be open. Instead of everything existing in – say – Fortnite's ecosystem, NFTs allow interoperability between games. You could take a sword from one game and move it to another.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
For the creator economy, NFTs represent a way for creators and producers of content to directly engage with the people who support them. It's a completely different model… a way for artists and creators to monetise much more effectively than incumbent platforms.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
Existing platforms don't necessarily have the best business models for creators, nor do they enable creators to interact directly with their fans in a way that value can pass directly to the people who are producing the creative work.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
Web3 and blockchain are as big of a fundamental shift as the internet was in 1999-2000. Crypto and NFTs create open systems with distributed ownership that can be used to build a practically infinite number of applications. We're at day zero of a gigantic wave.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
The greatest innovators spend a disproportionate amount of their time figuring out how to engage with the decision makers who need to green-light their work early so they can build confidence. Innovation can feel scary to a business- old and stable is less worrisome.
— Roger L. MartinManagement theorist & former Dean of Rotman School of Business
If I see a lot of cases where models own their managers, not the opposite. If the model isn't creating value, but you continue using it, then it owns you. This is frighteningly common.
— Roger L. MartinManagement theorist & former Dean of Rotman School of Business
Your customers matter, they have the last word, they hold money in their pocket and will either fork it over… or not… A national stores manager should not be trying to control what stores do and instead say, their job should be to help each store do better.
— Roger L. MartinManagement theorist & former Dean of Rotman School of Business
The biggest mistake is thinking that some people at the top make strategy, while everybody else executes it. It feels intractable at this point, it's so ingrained in our way of thinking. People at the top don't make all the decisions; it's not the case that people at the top make a strategy decision and then everyone just engages in that exact model.
— Roger L. MartinManagement theorist & former Dean of Rotman School of Business
My role as a judge is to make sure that to the best of my ability, the right outcome happens in a case – and parties understand what the outcome is, and that my decision is not based on anything woke, or politically correct, but is based on the facts I see before me.
— Judge Judith SheindlinCreator and star of TV show "Judge Judy" for 25 years
When you're involved in conflict, you're not sane. You may start out being sane, and in those early stages it's certainly possible to mediate and arbitrate.
— Judge Judith SheindlinCreator and star of TV show "Judge Judy" for 25 years
Society must demand that you comport yourself within a framework of rules. Once those rules break, society breaks down.
— Judge Judith SheindlinCreator and star of TV show "Judge Judy" for 25 years