I don't understand why the need to have some be the “leader” in “changing things” when the change usually boils down to reading, taking some time to reflect and then making choices to adjust one's own heading. I'm trying not to be overly descriptive here. This comes from circles I'm loosely associated that keep claiming that something shiny is definitely the way to change “the thing”. It's wild when there's evidence that the biggest thing holding things back is a lack of commitment to SEE things through and a need to de-center oneself (in terms of vanity, 'success' metrics tightly coupled to capitalism and the like). Focusing on the community (not the metaphorical aspect of it—like actually asking people what is it you need, observing how people use things and what they end up doing with it) will save us too much time versus running ahead and making something that's solely and purely an ego trip.

Long story short: read more anti-capitalist literature, let go of the idols put before us—they're meant to maintain the (broken) status quo and slow down.