You Need to Be Agencymaxxing
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You Need to Be Agencymaxxing
The optimal policy is open to you at all times - you merely need to ask “What should I be doing right now” or
“What would a person with 10x my agency be doing right now” or
“What would the ideal version of me be doing right now” or
“If the person I am met the person I could be, what would that person be doing right now”
I think of finding high-leverage work as having two interrelated components:
- Agency: i.e. some combination of the initiative/proactiveness to try to make things happen, and relentlessness and resourcefulness to make sure you’ll succeed.
- Taste: you need a good intuition for what things will and won’t work well to try. Taste is important both “in the
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