Agency

The first step towards being “high agency” is always the same. You cannot take effective action towards bending the world to your desire until you know, in detail, what it is that you desire.

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

Nobody wakes up feeling great and ready to get after it every day. The work is accepting your feelings and taking them along for the ride. It requires equal parts grace and grit, self-discipline and self-compassion. Keep showing up.

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.🧵:

whether you are “behind” or “ahead” is a delusion. others should serve as inspiration and a little healthy rivalry to fuel to your fire, but only one competitor can stop you: yourself. everything else is a distraction—a way to attribute your internal agency to something external:

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

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.

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

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

One of the worst things any of us can believe is that anything is inevitable. We have a tremendous agency to build the things that help us towards a future we want to live in—whether that’s in consumer products, climate, politics etc The body can reject things it finds foreign.