Agency is the skill that built the world around you, an all-purpose life intensifier that lets you make your corner of it more like what you want it to be, whether that’s professional, relational, aesthetic, whatever. Build a better mousetrap. Have an enviable marriage. Start a country. No one is born with it, everyone can learn it, and it’s never... See more

If we aspire to ‘be the change’ we want to see in the world, let’s first learn how to be.

agency, which I think of as something like “manifest determination to make things happen.”