Agency

@HunterGlenn @visakanv @goblinodds That is literally the first question you need to answer for yourself if you want to train agency. What do I want?

spent the weekend with a bunch of highly agentic people and now i've got a bunch of thoughts about agency

A while ago I got interested in being more agentic. Emmett Shear tweeted that it was teachable. He would train people by prompting them with certain questions. I gathered those questions and put them into a flow chart that I go through to problem-solve: https://t.co/kM0MID8bT5... See more

Things you can say to people in ten seconds that sometimes produce insanely outsized effects: 1. Yeah, someone *should* do that. Why not you? 2. Is there something you could do about that problem in the next five minutes?

What idea changed how you view the world? Here's mine: High Agency. The high agency library: (19 best examples I've found in 4 years) Show more

The main paper I've been working on for the last 3 years is out: "Value Capture"! It's about the harms of taking on external metrics and rankings as your own core values. The argument: you're outsourcing your values. It's fast, but then your values won't be tailored to you.🧵:

The people I admire most have a way of escaping the bubble of culture. Sometimes via religion; sometimes via old books; sometimes via time in nature. Without such an escape, propaganda wins. You stop thinking for yourself. Modern delusions grow into an all-consuming mind virus.

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

Great thing about starting your own company that you can design the way you want it. Too many founders or companies fall in this trap following established playbooks or bring processes from other places. People also say that “it doesn’t work” or “it won’t scale”, which my response is well have you tried it? Have you tried to make it work? At @l... See more