Agency

“A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or a class than one that has been able to situate itself in history.” - John Berger

I have been enamored with Samo Burja’s notion of a live player for a while, which he contrasts to a dead player. From his Great Founder Theory:

A live player is a person or well-coordinated group of people that is able to do things they have not done before. A dead player is a person or group of people that is working off a script, incapable of... See more

How to spot high agency people: 1. Weird teenage hobbies - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult. 2. Energy distortion field - If you meet with them when… Show more

if i'd had more agency when I was younger,

I would have acted on some truly terrible decisions that I may never have recovered from

...which makes me suspicious of agency as the latest all-good panacea

When you're agencymaxxing, others become more interested in helping

you because you're a good investment. You, the agencymaxxer, apply a

multiplier to others' help so that their help goes further than if

they applied that help to someone who wastes it by not helping

themself. People like when their help makes a meaningful difference

and they don't like... See more