HeyJaredChangemakers’ Handbook
Your front-row seat to PhD findings into changemaking and no-holds-barred insight into my experience across 6 continents. Join me in fueling dialogue on the why, the how, the how not to, and the personal toll of creating regenerative transformation.
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A poem for the wild (opens the original)
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I keep returning to a question underneath much of my work lately: what remains when we strip changemaking of its strategies, frameworks, titles and claims to importance?Increasingly, I think the answer has something to do with our capacity to notice one another accurately — and to let what we notice change what we do.Naomi Shihab Nye gets somewhere I have been circling, and gets there beautifully. Here is to art, once again. So, no analysis today. Just a poem I want to leave you with as I put on
My cover is blown (opens the original)
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“Are you a spy?” is a question I get surprisingly often.Yes, I was raised in the Soviet Union and have spent much of my life making relatively little sense to anybody anywhere. Still, the question surprises me mostly because regular people, tickled by the possibility that they are standing next to a maybe-spy, seem to expect a meaningful answer.If I were a spy (and I never confirm nor deny), I would have been fielding that question since I first learned to regard a pacifier with suspicion. Also,
Art is water for changemaking (opens the original)
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I may have been bullying artists recently.Or, perhaps, I have been excessively compelling changemakers who are capable of making art to do so. Either way, a poet, a satirist, a couple of painters, and an occasional dancer have been subjected to fervent appeals that their therapists may eventually hear about.Please make art. Please do not underestimate what it does in the world.The longer I study changemaking, the more convinced I become that art is one of civilization’s oldest changemaking techn
Can changemaking be taught? (opens the original)
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Approximately 70% of transformational efforts fail. We often blame strategy, leadership, culture, funding, politics, or bad luck. Increasingly, my research suggests another explanation: we have never treated changemaking as a profession.Architects, teachers, engineers, surgeons, firefighters, pilots, and musicians all develop explicit competencies. We expect them to practise, improve, receive feedback, and continue learning throughout their careers. Changemakers, by contrast, are largely expecte
Field Notes on Changemaking (Q2 2026) (opens the original)
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In this second installment of Field Notes on Changemaking, I again step back after a quarter of essays and conversations to reflect, synthesize, and help build shared memory for an emerging profession.These field notes serve two purposes. First, they provide an overview of the content generated during the quarter, helping you decide what source material is most worth your time.Second, they offer my reflection across that material to identify emerging patterns, refine working hypotheses, pose the
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