At the heart of agency lies a willingness to question defaults. To be agentic, you have to treat “how things are supposed to be done” as just one option among many.

Or, no, that formulation isn’t deep enough. When I think about friends of mine who struggle to be agentic, the problem isn’t precisely that they do the default thing; it’s that they fail... See more

This is a *perfect* example of something that happens in tech all the time…it’s not just Google but most visibly happening at Google and we are seeing it play out realtime. Google has amazing tech, it’s not the tech obviously Clear lack of vision and decisive leadership This results in no... See more