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"human skills"—curiosity, stakeholder management, and interpersonal dynamics.

There is a market correction toward uniquely human capabilities.

Does the world happen to you, or do you happen to the world?

Most people wait for permission to solve problems. The subtle message they send is "Tell me what to do." The world happens to them.

High agency people are different. They care. And because they care, they solve problems without being told. They happen to the world.

High agency people act

Not only do we lose access to our data and our social graph, we lose particular skills and the ability to pass them on to others. The new architects don’t know what we did, and since we’re often starting over, we reproduce past mistakes.

All that remains is what people did.

Not what they believed.

Just what they did.

I have a bunch of stories heating up on various burners in the Bounces kitchen and frustratingly several of them have been taking far longer than expected to cook to completion as I wait for delivery of a missing ingredient or two.

• Ben Rothenberg

The best are always learning. Read every day and get smarter. Continuous improvement compounds over decades.

The best people have a natural curiosity about solving issues, even outside their area of expertise. They ask about things they don’t own. They want to understand how the whole business works. Curiosity compounds.

we become the stories we tell

The only currency you have is really your willpower to make it work.

“If you can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.”

- Jeff Bezos