Who are The Change Architects
Here it begins.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw
Architects of tomorrow
What it takes to change the world?
A question that’s quite common yet rarely pondered over. A billion dollars? Maybe, a 200 IQ? perhaps.
The Change Architects are proof that anyone can be a force for change, regardless of their Intelligence or background. These are the people who refuse to accept the status quo and are willing to take bold action to make their vision a reality. They are driven by their passion and their belief in the power of change, and they are the unstoppable force that is shaping the world we live in today.
Of course, this path is not easy. Intelliegnce is rare but something that’s more underrated and rarer than that is more often the determination and perseverance that will ultimately decide whether you have what it takes. Now these are the things that can’t be taught it all comes from the experiences that you decide to expose yourself to.
But to be a Change Architect you also need to gain the ‘right’ knowledge & skills and ‘apply’ it right to increase your odds of achieving what you want to achieve. Your enduring legacy! And luckily these are the things that can be taught and and this is what this newsletter is all about.
It takes a great deal of belief
Believe in yourself, ever heard that? I guess countless times, it’s the modern cliche of every self-help crap you come across. it has turned into a cliche upto the point where its value has essentially evaporated.
Let me say that again, you need to believe in yourself. Specifically, you need to understand every decision you make has the ripple effect of making a lasting positive change or creating the ultimate chaos.
As the Change Architect, you need to understand there’s no such thing as high-level or low-level decision. Every decision you make has the potential to create significant changes or impacts(Heard of the Butterfly effect?). A dude in the random part of world has the power to create gigantic wildfires that can move millions of people and create a lasting damage just through his decision to throw a fucking cigarette(the so-called high-level decision, eh?). So why do you think your decision won’t?
As the Change Architect you need to be able to understand the compunding power of making series of thoughtful and robust decisions.
Your decisions, no matter how big or small, have the power to create a domino effect that leads to a major shift or change. Over time, the cumulative impact of these decisions will become visible, and you will reach a tipping point where the transformation you have been working towards becomes inevitable. This is why determination and perseverance are valued over intelligence and other capabilities as the Change Architect.
You can buy intelligence but there’s no price for determination and perseverance.
Decisions you make have more power than you think
A single person’s decision to follow his vision led to creation of value of more than a trillion dollars and has been instrumental in the advancement of some of the most important technologies. Can you think of one?
Elon Musk is a prime example of a Change Architect who followed his vision and created immense value through his decisions. With bold and ambitious plans such as making all cars electric and turning humanity into a multiplanetary species, Musk has challenged the status quo and pushed the boundaries of what is possible.
your will is the most accurate way to predict the future.
Elon Musk
Let’s go back in time, Alexander the Great was a young man with a vision of conquering the world, which may have seemed like a crazy teenage fantasy at the time. But through his exceptional leadership and strategic prowess, he was able to turn that vision into a reality and become one of the greatest conquerors in history.
These examples show how a single person's decision to follow their vision can have a profound impact, leading to the creation of significant value and the advancement of important technologies. It just goes to show that with determination and perseverance, anything is possible.
Information is your greatest asset
For centuries, information was densely controlled and the availability was kept limited. But presently, there’s no shortage of information, there’s so much information good and bad, useful and useless that people have started to pay just so that the information that reaches them is filtered.
Your decisions are as good as the information you support it with.
As the Change Architect, filtering information should be one of your greatest skills. Most influential people today spend 98% of their time on filtering information. Should we go ahead with the M&A? Should we expand our product portfolio? Enter new markets? Push this new policy that affects millions?
They often use capital and incentives to assemble a team of the smartest people they can find. However, these experts do not always have a single, fixed viewpoint, and instead come with a diversity of opinions and perspectives. As the sole decision-maker, it is up to you to decide which viewpoints to listen to and incorporate into your decision-making process.
Millionaires make millions while billionaires make billions just by listening to smart people and using their filtering skills to vet and go ahead with a decision. So clearly filtering is a must-have skill as the Change Architect.
Filtering is worth more today than creation of new information itself.
What to expect from this newsletter
To be straight, I will teach you techniques, mental models and frameworks that will help you in thinking critically and assist you in making high-quality decisions where you can practically apply with the ultimate goal of creating any type of change. As the Change Architect you should be knowing about things like:
Systems Thinking: Everything is a system. You need to be able to create systems in order to acheive your goals. From organizations to human body, it all runs on series of interdependent processes that collectively act as an emergent system. You don’t need to control all processes. Just control the leverage points and you shake the whole system to behave how you want it to.
Psychology: Certain behaviours lead to certain outcomes, even though you can't control an outcome but you can certainly control the event that leads to the outcome. So in this case, you need to learn how to alter behaviours to create new behaviours that align with your desired outcome. Tech companies have been successfully altering your behaviours with the goal of increasing their profits. So I'll teach you behavioural psychological and economics.
Communication: Every marketers in the world strategically use communication to make you buy things you don’t need. It isn’t just about manipulation, to spread your ideas you need to be able to communicate it well. This also includes using mass media tools such as TikTok, Reels and others to spread your message or deploy effective awareness campaigns.
Mathematical Concepts: Mathematics is what makes your goals measurable and helps you in quanitifying the magnitude of impact your goals create. You can also use mathematics for scenario planning & analysis, making calculated decisions. Statistics & Probability are some the mathematical concepts you need to be proficient at.
Strategic Planning: Not just any goals, becoming a Change Architect starts with setting world-changing goals and using complex strategies on achieving such goals. John F Kennedy set the hostorical and monumental goal of landing man on the moon. Just what made this seemingly impossible feat and ridiculous from the time period standpoint achievable.
Scenario Planning & Analysis: It will help you in identifying potential threats and opportunities and as a result prepares you in developing the right strategies based on different outcomes. You need to be able to create practical hypothetical scenarios and then analyze potential consequences of each scenarios to ensure robust execution of your moves and decisions.
Capital & Resource disposition: A Change Architect needs to be an expert resource allocator. Whether it is modelling the capital requirement accurately or identifying & convincing the right talent by setting the right incentives to work on your vision. I'll teach you Capital management tools & techniques you will need to know to allocate resources effectively with best practices on identifying the right talent.
Building Organizations: Modern corporation structure was responsible for the drastic increase in productivity during the industrial era. Businesses are built to make money yes but they're also built to achieve world changing goals. Tesla, SpaceX, Amazon, they all started with a vision. You need to learn how to analyse markets and operate businesses to create your desired impact.
Compounding: As The Change Architect, you need to understand the power of compounding. As explained earlier, your decisions follow a compounding trajectory. I will teach you the concept and dynamics of compounding so you will know how compouding works.
and so on…:
The list is endless and subject area is vast, I may not be able to cover everything.
But one thing is clear, everything that will be shared can practically be applied. Practicality will always be at the centre of strategic objective behind starting this newsletter. Although I am not a writer and that’s something I am still learning but I started this newsletter to spread this knowledge the world needs more of and I trust that you will use this knowledge wisely and for the good of humanity.
Final note, get ready to be ridiculed
What is one quality other than those mentioned above a Change Architect needs?
Let me get to the point. Shamelessness!
Amazon was at one point rated as one of the worst ideas of all time by a reputed magazine in the 90s. Elon Musk was ridiculed by his own heroes for having crazy ambitions (Tesla & SpaceX). But all these Change Architects had one thing in common, they were all shameless. Obviously, you would have to be shameless to keep going when most of the world was calling you crazy and your vision ridiculous.
No one will be able to see your vision as clearly as you do and so you will be ridiculed, you will be called delusional, you will be called crazy. You need to believe in your vision and in your ability to translate it into reality. Every great leader has faced it, every great entrepreneur has faced it and every Change Architect will be facing it too. So get ready and never turn your head down.
“Crazy ones who think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs
