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[Shimi @shim2k]

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[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.”

[Henrik Karlsson @phokarlsson]

Graph of decision quality among professional Go players. A sudden increase after AlphaGo. It is not only because they are learning from the AI. Players are suddenly inventing new moves at a faster rate too!

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

Use animations? The @ChromeDevTools now has a refreshed frame rate meter. This provides better real-time estimates for page smoothness.

[Shimi @shim2k]

@EyimeInTech @ravinwashere You probably did not realize but you just wrote “Hypertext markup language is not a language”

[Paul Graham @paulg]

When you're dealing with exponential growth, the time to act is when it feels too early.

[Tableau @tableau]

Data is big. So is visualizing it. Read when it's best to use 13 common charts: http://t.co/tlkEnRWShm

[Shimi @shim2k]

Live on @livecodingtv https://t.co/rRhy0HAvj2

[Shimi @shim2k]

Using WebGL to Add 3D Effects to Your Website http://t.co/8e757Xwap7 via @html5hub

[Shimi @shim2k]

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