on agency & what it gives us
Gaining agency is gaining the capacity to do something differently from, or in addition to, the events that simply happen to you.
Simon Sarris • The Most Precious Resource Is Agency
“I do think there is an issue in society at the moment with the lack of agency and autonomy for people,” she says. “Guerrilla gardening, even if it is just sowing something in a tree bed, it might not change the world – you might help some bees, you might bring joy to someone walking down the street – but you’re also reminding people, or awakening
... See moreDamien Gayle • ‘I Call It Botanarchy’: The Hackney Guerrilla Gardener Bringing Power to the People
• Use your imagination as a way to practice exploring possibilities…and discover the many ways this is connected to real-world hope.
Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination
Humanity needs Gen Z’s ideas and dreams to shape the future, which means giving them a seat at the table
Sarah DaVanzo • Gen Z’s Curiosity Fingerprint for the Future
Chat” evokes what search engines and databases cannot: a sense of personal involvement. It implicates one’s selfhood, which helps cultivate certain behaviors
Anna Wiener • The Age of Chat
‘I Call It Botanarchy’: The Hackney Guerrilla Gardener Bringing Power to the People
Damien Gayletheguardian.comThe power of agency is, in practice, the power to build: to direct our intelligence toward the work of understanding the world and adapting it to our needs. It’s how we impose a purposeful order on nature’s chaos.
Dr. Gena Gorlin • Death is the default
Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away. And though hope can be an act of defiance, defiance isn’t enough reason to hope. But there are good reasons.
guerrilla gardening is the Trojan horse into anarchist ideals