Nobody is born low agency. Babies are the highest-agency creatures alive, they will absolutely try to eat a battery, they have no concept of "I can't."
Low agency is learned, usually from being punished for trying.
It's 9pm local time in London, everyone in the Royal Box has left the building, and the camera pans to the one person who stayed to watch the last match of the day...
Roger Federer, the winningest men's champion in Wimbledon history.
Cinema.
building a company is largely the act of managing your own emotional state so the field around you remains coherent enough for other ppl to do their best work inside it.
basically founders set the emotional physics of the org. panic compounds. but clarity compounds too.
Today, we remember a legend.
On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.
Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.
He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.
Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.
Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸
May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.
i challenge anyone who listens to music for 6+ hours a day to quit for a week to:
1) realize it's an addiction
2) realize how much better your thoughts become
Singapore’s Foreign Minister, Dr Balakrishnan casually explaining how he built his own AI agent (a 2nd brain for diplomacy) using Claude & WhatsApp integration etc. on a Raspberry Pi
“You cannot govern a technology you have only been briefed on.” 🇸🇬
Embarrassment is the cost of entry to living a good life. No matter what you do, at the start, you will suck. You will feel cringe. And you will likely get criticism. That’s okay. Wouldn’t you rather try and fail and grow than never try at all?
Low-agency people look at the world and ask "What am I allowed to do?"
High-agency people look at the world and ask "What can I make happen?"
Same world. Completely different operating system.