The Minutes of John Williams on culture https://minutesof.com/john-williams/on/culture/ Everything John Williams has said on culture: 2 verbatim quotes, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:03:05 +0000 Williams defines culture as an operational asset and backup system for judgment when data or models fail. https://minutesof.com/q/515b7fef-fbfe-4e5e-84a6-34369ed7f9bc/ https://minutesof.com/q/515b7fef-fbfe-4e5e-84a6-34369ed7f9bc/ “Culture is not “soft,” or secondary. Culture is an operational asset. It is a form of resiliency, a non-technical redundancy, a backup system for judgment when data is incomplete, or the model is misleading.” — NY Fed speeches culture Williams asserts culture is an operational asset and form of resiliency, not soft or secondary. https://minutesof.com/q/de022ed1-ab53-4b6d-b4cc-64c6aa9ee479/ https://minutesof.com/q/de022ed1-ab53-4b6d-b4cc-64c6aa9ee479/ “Culture is not “soft,” or secondary. Culture is an operational asset. It is a form of resiliency, a non-technical redundancy, a backup system for judgment” — NY Fed speeches culture