on agency & what it gives us

When people can feel something but cannot yet name it, it means the market is about to change. That’s what latent demand looks like, in both markets and culture. There is a mounting energy waiting to move, and we sense that energy before we even have the words for it.

And right now there is a growing latent demand for sovereignty.

Power may really live in the hands of just 50 people, but the way it is experienced in our day-to-day lives is far more diffuse. It’s the constant feeling that anywhere and at any given moment, at the nail salon, the grocery store, while you’re walking from your front door to your car, something is being siphoned away from you without you knowing.

the most important thing you can do to transform the world is to act. Taking action is a practice of hope. Experience and meaning are derived from doing.

How do we encourage those around us to be active dreamers without coming off as people with their heads in the clouds? The phrase “dream a little” can be so hard to even imagine as people who have been so conditioned to not push past the corners of their own imaginations.

When we do not know what we should hope for, we can hope to learn. There is room for what the philosopher Jonathan Lear calls “radical hope … directed toward a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is”.

• Use your imagination as a way to practice exploring possibilities…and discover the many ways this is connected to real-world hope.

tomorrowing — an active mindset of anticipating challenges and opportunities rather than passively waiting for the future.

Positive Friction encourages an alternative design practice in order to restore human agency within online spaces