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People with a high agency mindset often have a bias for action.

Instead of I need to understand this before I can try it, they usually think I need to try this in order to understand it. They’re experimental in their approach to problems and goals. They go after what they want without waiting for the circumstances to be ideal.

Updates are presented not just as status reports, but as crucial tools for alignment, building trust, ensuring visibility, and enabling asynchronous communication within and across teams.

Emphasize outcomes and progress towards goals rather than simply listing tasks completed. Quantifying impact where possible adds significant value.

A paradox: the amount of things that are now possible and exciting and worth exploring because of AI greatly exceeds the amount of time I save using AI.

“If you're responding to the facts in front of you and not thinking from first principles… the likelihood that you'll make the right strategic decision is almost zero.”

• Shane Parrish
  

Most companies make the mistake of tracking what's easy to measure (lines of code, PR counts) rather than what actually matters — “outcome over output.”

Much critical knowledge is tacit, built through navigating complex situations, making mistakes, and observing outcomes.

Failure and reflection are powerful learning tools.

Expectation:
AI will replace expertise.

Reality:
AI changes the nature of expertise.

Economist John Kenneth Galbraith on being open-minded:

“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”

The acceptance of voting encourages team members to seek to influence voting outcomes as opposed to reconciling competing proposals, ideas, and arguments through open discussion.

While governing bodies often use voting to officially identify those in favor and those opposed and to carry out their fiduciary duties, high-performing teams require a sta