Thought I’ll put my writings down intermittently as we had did in shelter many years before. Anyways my thoughts are as follow: the way the world works is for one to provide value and value is paid and deemed valuable if it benefits the most people. Therefore it follows that the most valuable problems solved will have the most valuable answers.

How do we provide that in architecture?

In a sense these thoughts came through via me dipping my toes into the stock market and pondering the nature of capital. What makes a stock/ company valuable? In a sense I kind of equating daytrading to daily grindwork, both takes a lot of attention but does not train anything on the long term. The wisdom is to buy a company that is actually changing the world and providing value, solving issues for the most amount of people (hence, Tesla, which is basically 10 companies in one, with electric cars, solar panels, electric infrastructure, industrial factory 4.0, fully autonomous driving, etc). Grindwork doesn’t provide much value for me personally if I see myself as a company as it doesn’t make me more efficient or provide more value. To be more precise, grindwork means I’ll just provide value as linear as x = y, where x is time and y is work.

I guess what I’m trying to get at is the find opportunities and to think of new ideas and stuff that can provide value. What are the problems that needs solving? What is the biggest problem that can be our project? Asking the problems is the biggest exercise. I hope I can embody that while working a corporate job.