Agency

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

As the old institutions continue to crumble, the most independent minds and high-agency private networks will continue to fill the vacuum.

exert your taste on the world to live in a reality you’ve consciously created https://t.co/wKR6LMKBRo

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