New Essay: The Age of Agency

Our new technological age enables unprecedented individual market influence, creating massive opportunity for those with true agency. Yet, the very systems that empower us also undermine our ability to exercise that agency. When given infinite opportunity, the real challenge is not access to tools or platforms, but the cultivation of intentionality—the ability to define a clear vision and act on it amidst the noise, fragmentation, and liquidity of our environments. We must urgently design systems that increase the agency of humanity, as the impact of agency (and its absence) compounds over time.

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New Essay: The Age of Agency

There's a lot of talk in tech about agency, but true agency is our scarcest resource. Being a hustler is not necessarily high-agency. Agency isn't just about action.  It's the ability to define a clear vision and act on it with intention. https://t.co/eLfo7YoMhB

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Entering my cheering for you era. You cannot compete with me. I want you to win too.

Among the important properties to have is the belief you can do important things. If you do not work on important problems, how can you expect to do important work?

"just do things" must be coupled with "have higher goals"

Your point about the compounding is interesting in particular because it suggests that agency could be something that, if lost, becomes increasingly hard an beyond some point perhaps impractical to regain. Scary thought.

the future of agency is in our hands, let us wield it wisely.