Cultivating Agency

The world until recently was overflowing with onramps of opportunity, even for children, and we seem to do poorly at producing new ones. Modern complexity may have erased some avenues for agency (no boy can meaningfully learn the telegraph), but I suspect how we have oriented the world, not technology, is the main problem.

You don't need to be in tech to have high agency. Yet you'll find most of these people there, as they naturally gravitate toward low-structure, high-impact environments — namely, startups.