How to Be More Agentic

The good news is that having high agency is an internal state of mind, and it can be absorbed. It means freeing oneself from artificial constraints and defying them. It’s Morpheus challenging Neo in The Matrix: “Do you think that’s air you’re breathing now?” The limitations we’ve accepted as natural — degrees, credentials, specialized skills, years... See more

radical agency involves finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying, unpleasant, or obscured in a cloud of aversion.