Summary of Jason Feifer's Build for Tomorrow

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#1 Change causes fear, and fear causes panic. You can either resist change and do nothing, or you can make a rash decision and hope it solves everything. Neither option tends to work out well.

#2 If a panic happens, do something. Don't do nothing. -> Change causes fear, and fear causes panic. You can either resist change and do nothing, or you can make a rash decision and hope it solves everything. Neither option tends to work out well.

#3 We experience panic because we feel alone. We imagine that nobody else is experiencing the same thing, when in reality, we are all experiencing the same thing.

#4 Sousa was a famous musician who hated radio, phonographs, and other technologies that changed how we listened to music.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350024890

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Change can be scary, and we often feel powerless when it comes to dealing with it. We may make irrational decisions that don’t solve the problem, or we may do nothing and just hope it will go away.

#2

The same panic that affected the dairy industry in the late 1800s affected the butter industry in the 1950s. But today, the dairy industry is panicking about the growth of nondairy milks like oat milk and almond milk.

#3

We all experience the same fear and resistance when it comes to change. We feel like we’re experiencing something that nobody else has, and we imagine that there is no playbook for what’s next. But there is a path forward, and it’s up to us to take it seriously.

#4

Sousa was a famous musician in the early 1900s. He was a household name who played music that gave warmth and soul to a nation still healing from the Civil War. But he was against the new technologies of radio and the phonograph, fearing they would destroy society.

#5

Sousa’s fear that technology would replace all forms of performance was eventually proven wrong, as it enabled musicians to scale their work and make money in their sleep. But this new technology also birthed a new generation of music-related jobs that previously didn’t exist.

#6

Everything we’re comfortable with, everything we think is proper and correct, and everything we consider natural was once new and scary, and was opposed by a previous generation. But we think we’re good, so we oppose change.

#7

The future is not optional. It is here, and it cannot be stopped. We have two choices: to embrace it or to fight a losing battle. So that’s what I told Kirshbaum, the music agent. Do not panic. Do not focus on what