change

Hi, this is a side project that grew into a main project. Change.is intended as a useful tool to motivate and educate; a resource to push each of us to build whatever it is that we need to build, and to use best entrepreneurial practices in that process for better outcomes.

The starting point for the project were the videos. Each quote was sourced from a video, and has a citation linking back to the actual video performance by the entrepreneur. Content comes from approx: 80% Youtube, 15% Vimeo, and 5% other embeds.

The quotes are mostly aphorisms, meaning they are concise, memorable, actionable statements. They are all from living breathing, active entrepreneurs.

After finding the aphorisms, I figured the site could be a more general home for anything inspiring in tech or human endeavor… so we built out the /videos section as well. Right now videos can be uploaded by any registered user, whereas the quotes are currently curated by me.

Would love to get some feedback on what's good, bad, fast, slow, ugly… A couple of specific questions:

There is an easy way to navigate the quotes and a less user-friendly way. Did you find the easy way off the bat?

Is it clear enough that you can click on a quote to load the video?

Is the videos sections too hidden away?

Talking about 'promotions' and 'management' at your age seems a little blinkered. Even if you end up being a cog in a wheel, I don't think you should optimize for this. Having a comprehensive and broad world view, bringing things to the table besides your core discipline, these are just as important.

It also seems the days of higher education just being about a window of time around the age of 20, might be numbered. The education model of the future may be more about life long learning. That suggests you can go get new skills as you need them. But if you ever need some personal development and new experiences, that time will be now.

Forget the job for a second, what about your life goals... Will you be satisfied with your lack of a degree?

How long do you think you will live for?

With current and future medical technologies you can expect a long life… let's say 100+ years. So, in how much of a hurry are you to get a job and make cash?

Even if education and other life experiences don't impact your employability, they are probably still worthwhile. And if you don't have that change the world idea lined up, then you're not missing any boat to go learn and explore.

When there are enough NFC enabled phones out there to make this useful, the card owner will most likely have an NFC phone also. 2 NFC phones nearby will make this card a bit unnecessary.