B. Smith

🙏🏽 Proverbs 3:5-6 | CHI 📍INDY | MarTech AI Project Pro 👨🏽‍💻
Marketing & Analytics @AmerMedicalAssn | @asuonline Alum 🔱

[Claude @claudeai]

There’s hope in hard questions.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[B. Smith @bsmiff22]

Just wondering, should I really use this platform?

What are the pros & cons?

I'd love to hear folks input on this topic.

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[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

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[B. Smith @bsmiff22]

It's time to build some consistency & discipline with this thing! 😤🦾

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[Lior Alexander @LiorOnAI]

JUST IN: StackOverflow Announces OverflowAI!

It allows you to interact with the platform in a chat interface and aggregate the 58 million answers.

Features:
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[Laura Wendel @Lauramaywendel]

A lot of the economy is based on the principle of a value chain, that you combine parts into a whole - which is more than the sum of its parts (e.g. iPhone materials costing $300 but Apple selling it for $1000 in retail).

Similarly, when you acquire many different skills, you can often combine them in a way that the whole has a much higher value than its parts. That's why a majority of successful founders are often generalists in many different fields (engineering, design, business strategy, science, ...)

[B. Smith @bsmiff22]

@geniususocial This is the talk of the town & I love it! #naturallanguageprocessing is the key 🔑 to all this.

I recently made a thread about NLP & a carousel post on @LinkedIn 🔗

Check it out:

https://t.co/DwUTLq0GKx

[B. Smith @bsmiff22]

@CynthiaLIVE @zebinder @GetWithinHealth I genuinely NEED this #mentalhealth insight - thank you so much for sharing! @CynthiaLIVE ♥️🤝

[B. Smith @bsmiff22]

@RealTalkKim Mannn… 🤌🏽🔥💯

[B. Smith @bsmiff22]

@GrantCardone I’ve come to learn that we all live on earth together; just in different worlds. Someone’s perspective is their reality. Essentially, I believe there is only one RIGHT way, which is God’s way. It’s opinionated yes, but at the end of the day, it’s all about values & ethics. 💯

[B. Smith @bsmiff22]

By using NLP software, non-technical people can communicate more effectively, access information more easily, and save time. The possibilities are endless with the power of NLP! 🚀

[B. Smith @bsmiff22]

Hey you!

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[B. Smith @bsmiff22]

⚡ Embrace the Magic of NLP and experience the benefits of this incredible technology in your everyday life. It saves time, improves communication, and makes accessing information more accessible.