Agency
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Start here · 10 min
- There’s no speed limit★(favorite)Derek Sivers · 3 min
How teacher Kimo Williams pushed a teenage Sivers through two years of music theory in a few lessons, showing you can learn far faster than the standard pace.
- Being Bad★(favorite)Michael Kaminsky · 3 min
How fear of looking stupid held Kaminsky back from new things, and how learning Spanish in Mexico taught him to be bad at something in public.
- Strong Opinions, Weakly Held★(favorite)Abraham Thomas · 4 min
Thomas reads Andreessen's motto through a lost traveler at a fork: commit fully to a path, then turn around fast when it dead-ends, which maximizes your rate of learning.
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Roberts argues that you can grow your own luck, since serendipity scales with how much you do what you care about and how many people you tell about it.
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- It Is Your Responsibility to Follow UpAlexey Guzey
Hall treats agency as a learnable skill and shares the edges that built hers: court rejection, seek anonymous feedback, take random meetings, cross the moat of low status, and avoid burnout.
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- 50 things I knowCate Hall
- Strong Opinions, Weakly HeldAbraham Thomas
- Risk-takers decide fasterSebastian Bensusan
- On the importance of infinitesimal actionsJakob Greenfeld
Friedman's credo: reshape the world with technology, move fast because time is the denominator, keep teams small, empower great individuals, and distrust the efficient market.
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- Gradient Descent ValleysSlava Akhmechet
- 50 things I knowCate Hall
- Staring into the abyss as a core life skillBen Kuhn
- How to be more agenticCate Hall
Hall's 50 hard-won lessons on love, judgment, and agency, from caring about people who don't care back to doing the tasks you most want to avoid first and knowing when to quit.
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- Some Things I BelieveNat Friedman
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- Staring into the abyss as a core life skillBen Kuhn
- NewEverything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson 13 min
How to apply Christopher Alexander's idea of unfolding to design a life that fits
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- PsychokineticsManav B. Ponnekanti
- What you could have beenBrian • The Tiny Wisdom
- On FailureSlava Akhmechet
Hall argues that fear of looking bad while learning keeps people from richer lives, and that the only way across is to accept the embarrassment and do it anyway, as she did playing poker on television.
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- the worst thing that can happen is that you’ll learnjanelle☆
Lamade argues you should give small and unwanted chances your full effort, as Philip Seymour Hoffman did in auditions, William McRaven did with a parade float, and Tom Brady did with two practice reps.
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- How To Be SuccessfulSam Altman
Buying books, hunting for inspiration, and watching tutorials feel like progress because the brain rewards preparation, so the fix is doing one small, imperfect piece of the actual work today.
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- How to be more agenticCate Hall
- Strong Opinions, Weakly HeldAbraham Thomas
- Risk-takers decide fasterSebastian Bensusan
- On the importance of infinitesimal actionsJakob Greenfeld
Brian argues that small everyday choices compound into who you become, so pushing through hard moments is how you avoid looking back at the person you could have been.
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- fun is the only metric that doesn’t liesignull
- PsychokineticsManav B. Ponnekanti
- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson
- On FailureSlava Akhmechet
Thomas reads Andreessen's motto through a lost traveler at a fork: commit fully to a path, then turn around fast when it dead-ends, which maximizes your rate of learning.
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- How to be more agenticCate Hall
- Risk-takers decide fasterSebastian Bensusan
- On the importance of infinitesimal actionsJakob Greenfeld
- The illusion of productivity (and why we stay stuck)Brian • The Tiny Wisdom
Thomas argues that in unknown, unforgiving settings like startups, speed lowers risk, which is why Amundsen's fast, light team reached the South Pole in comfort while Scott's slow, cautious one died.
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Kuhn argues the people he admires most are great at thinking clearly about uncomfortable questions, like whether to pivot, quit, or break up, as Wave's CEO did through a dozen pivots, and offers ways to get better at it.
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signull argues that real, absorbing fun is a more honest measure than money or prestige and the only sustainable fuel, so plan your days around what would make the work fun.
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- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson
- What you could have beenBrian • The Tiny Wisdom
- On FailureSlava Akhmechet
Feeling stuck usually means a valley, not a local minimum: avoid volatile moves like quitting, build steady momentum, and take bigger steps in calm, promising directions.
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- 50 things I knowCate Hall
- Staring into the abyss as a core life skillBen Kuhn
A 10-to-20-year career loop: get in rooms with the most competent people who'll have you, work hard to be reliably useful, and watch for weird asymmetric opportunities.
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- Getting a Tech Job Out of CollegeSlava Akhmechet
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- Gradient Descent ValleysSlava Akhmechet
People respond to big failures by either consolidating lessons and moving up or hiding in humiliation, and the mode you land in is decided by habits built before the failure.
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- fun is the only metric that doesn’t liesignull
- PsychokineticsManav B. Ponnekanti
- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson
Start a new job by running two threads: solve one small valuable problem fast and keep scaling up, while talking to everyone to understand what they work on and why.
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Firm rules for execution: every effort needs one owner for whom it's the main job, leaders and followers rarely swap roles, and you can only run as many things as you have leaders.
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Eliason argues most productivity systems are tool-sharpening that rarely improves the actual work, as a chef taught him about knife skills, so use the minimum scaffolding and fix tools only when work suffers.
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- PsychokineticsManav B. Ponnekanti
- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson
Altman's 13 principles for outlier success, centered on compounding yourself, near-delusional self-belief, focus, hard work, owning equity instead of selling time, and being driven from within.
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- Advice for ambitious 19 year oldsSam Altman
Altman argues that choosing what to work on matters most for productivity, then shares his system of paper lists, ruthless no's, protected mornings, and sleep, exercise, and diet tuned by experiment.
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Altman argues college, a job, or a startup can each be right at 19 as long as you build things, stay around smart people, and take the right risks, like joining a breakout company over a higher salary at Microsoft.
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Altman endorses Charlie Rose's theory that things get done through focus and personal connections, so founders should drop everything beyond two or three priorities and invest in relationships with smart people.
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- Don’t Edit Your ImaginationBrian Chesky
Altman's 36 lessons from his twenties, from keeping close friends and a low burn rate to picking the right work, asking for what you want, and doing something new and risky every year.
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- fun is the only metric that doesn’t liesignull
Altman argues the goal is to care about others' opinions on a long time horizon rather than stop caring, trading short-term low status for long-term high status by being right about a non-consensus bet.
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- fun is the only metric that doesn’t liesignull
Altman argues that tweeting, networking, and talking about the future only feel like work, since value comes from execution, so measure what you got done each day and work on what you actually care about.
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Altman's 17 lessons on building things: optimism and obsession get them started, while cohesive teams, focused bets, and fast iteration get them finished.
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- Value is created by doingSam Altman
Brian Chesky shares the rejection emails Airbnb got from investors when it tried to raise $150,000 at a $1.5M valuation.
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- NewCreate.Derek Sivers 4 min
A chapter from Sivers's How to Live arguing that the way to live is to create, finish what you start, and die with nothing left inside you.
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- What you could have beenBrian • The Tiny Wisdom
Brian Chesky on how adults stop imagining things they can't yet see how to build, and why starting from an unedited imagination leads to bigger ideas.
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Wang argues a leader sets the ceiling on how much a company cares, so leaders must overdo everything, as Scale did by moving most of its team to LLM data within six months.
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- The Perils of PrudenceAbraham Thomas
Having kids convinced Graham that life really is short, so the answer is to cut out the bullshit, avoid letting time slip by, and do what matters to you now.
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- fun is the only metric that doesn’t liesignull
- PsychokineticsManav B. Ponnekanti
- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson
Wang's 2019 Scale memo argues that time estimates set how long work takes, since people aim just under any bar, so optimistic scopes make teams move faster.
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Sivers's talk to incoming Berklee students: six lessons on focus, ignoring distraction, and treating school as an intense training period.
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Ponnekanti argues the only reason that gets a stuck person moving is the feeling of motion itself, so the goal is two good days in a row, which gives you a trend worth defending.
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- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson
- What you could have beenBrian • The Tiny Wisdom
- On FailureSlava Akhmechet
Bensusan argues that needing time to think usually means fearing risks you already understand, so ask what you need to know to decide now, with a reply from Andy Matuschak on when waiting helps.
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- How to be more agenticCate Hall
- Strong Opinions, Weakly HeldAbraham Thomas
- On the importance of infinitesimal actionsJakob Greenfeld
- The illusion of productivity (and why we stay stuck)Brian • The Tiny Wisdom
Gichuru uses Price's Law, where the square root of a group does half the work, to argue for producing in volume, finding the few posts and skills that matter, and doubling down on them.
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- Useful and Overlooked SkillsMorgan Housel
- Strong Opinions, Weakly HeldAbraham Thomas
- Risk-takers decide fasterSebastian Bensusan
Greenfeld argues the secret behind outsized impact is a deep belief that you can make a dent in the universe, since expectations shape reality and self-doubt becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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- Thinking harder doesn’t work (or how I learned to love the right half of my brain)Jakob Greenfeld
- How to be more agenticCate Hall
Greenfeld argues life shrinks by default as habit pulls you toward the same places and people, so he expands it on purpose with several workplaces and a weekly mini-adventure from his Living Larger list.
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Greenfeld argues curiosity beats spreadsheets, prestige, and money as a guide to what to work on, since excitement is information and fuel, as David Perell found when chasing ambition led him into a writing slump.
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- Expansion, always, in all waysJakob Greenfeld
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Borrowing improv's offer-block-accept idea, Greenfeld argues that blocking feels safe and high-status but makes life dull, so accept more offers and make interesting ones, the way Californication's Richard Bates does.
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- Elon Musk's, Steve Jobs', Albert Einstein's Secret SauceJakob Greenfeld
Greenfeld's notes from two 37signals podcasts, where DHH and Jason Fried argue you learn whether an idea works by shipping it, since the best business ideas can't be analyzed rationally up front.
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Greenfeld balances structure and spontaneity by deciding each evening what tomorrow's deep work and task blocks will hold, since he chooses far better for his future self than in the moment.
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- How to be more agenticCate Hall
Greenfeld uses the single vote to show how actions too small to matter on their own, like a little junk food or doomscrolling, add up to define who you are.
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- Letting Now Jakob make decisions for Future JakobJakob Greenfeld
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- How to be more agenticCate Hall
Greenfeld argues that doing more of what kind of works keeps you stuck at the same level, as indie hackers he hadn't seen in two years still were, and that 10x jumps require radically changing your approach.
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Eliason argues the real reason to take hard classes like calculus is to prove to yourself you can do hard things, since that track record shapes how capable you feel when new challenges arrive.
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- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson
Greenfeld argues people tend to mirror how you treat them, since popular kids are the ones who like their classmates most, so to stop fearing judgment, mistrust, or rudeness, change your own behavior first.
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Aaron Swartz argues effective people work backward from a goal to a concrete theory of how change happens, while most people just apply whatever skills they already have.
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- Strong Opinions, Weakly HeldAbraham Thomas
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- On the importance of infinitesimal actionsJakob Greenfeld
- NewThinking harder doesn’t work (or how I learned to love the right half of my brain)Jakob Greenfeld 7 min
Greenfeld argues analytical, left-brain thinking oversells frameworks and plans, so he now sits with problems and leans into the obvious, the way improv pros do, to let intuition contribute.
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- NewUpstream Productivity - or the day you stopped caring about productivity adviceJakob Greenfeld 2 min
Greenfeld argues productivity systems are mostly procrastination, since real output flows upstream from physical health and from working on things you truly care about.
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After quitting piano, a third language, and content creation for fear of being behind, janelle argues that regretting lost time only wastes more of it, so ask what you'd start today if being late didn't matter.
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- Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design processHenrik Karlsson
- What you could have beenBrian • The Tiny Wisdom
Most people pursue goals through far less effective routes than they could find, because good strategy takes deliberate effort and nothing pushes us toward it by default.
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Why Yoda was right: setting out to "try" means aiming at having made an effort rather than at success, and that lower target quietly guarantees weaker plans.
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Yudkowsky shares his trick for getting out of bed by counting down from ten, which turns an effortful decision into a default plan that runs on its own, while warning it's shallow advice without deep theory behind it.
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- NewFastPatrick Collison 7 min
Patrick Collison's list of teams that did ambitious things remarkably fast, from launching BankAmericard in 90 days to building the first USAF jet fighter in 143.
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How labeling a domain as one you "just don't understand," like mechanical things or math, makes people stop thinking before they've tried the obvious next question.
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- Strong Opinions, Weakly HeldAbraham Thomas
- Risk-takers decide fasterSebastian Bensusan
Drawing on Nate Silver's On the Edge, Greenfeld argues successful people understand probability well enough to treat failures as inevitable, so they shrug them off and keep trying hundreds of times instead of three.
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Wang argues you can create luck by growing your luck surface area through doing more and telling more people, and maps the four kinds of luck from accidental to magnetic onto habits and strategy.
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Greenfeld collects passages, mostly from John Vervaeke, arguing that suffering means losing agency rather than feeling pain, which is why addiction and even too much joy count as suffering.
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Looking back at his successes, Ben Kuhn found the hardest part was simply getting up and doing things outside his routine, which matters more than talent.
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Sarris argues virtue lives in careful everyday acts rather than heroics, and that you should leave public breadcrumbs, like writing what you learn, so the right people, jobs, and partners can find you.
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Ahmed answers every doubt he heard while building Whoop, from having no experience to Nike, Apple, and Amazon killing him, with a single reply to keep going.
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How teacher Kimo Williams pushed a teenage Sivers through two years of music theory in a few lessons, showing you can learn far faster than the standard pace.
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Hard problems get solved by the thinking you do without trying, like in the shower, so guard what occupies your mind, especially against money and disputes.
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Yeo argues the best life-decision rule is to collect bets with capped downside and uncapped upside, act fast on lucky breaks, and double down on what pays off, as when she chose a crypto startup over Google.
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After spending her first 25 years avoiding failure by not trying anything, janelle argues that the worst outcome of trying is learning, and starts experimenting with floristry, writing, and photography anyway.
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Kevin Kelly's 101 new bits of life advice written for his 73rd birthday, from criticizing something by making something better to interviewing your parents while you can and being the last to let go of a hug.
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Patrick Collison's advice to his younger self, broken down by decade of life, starting with going deep on several subjects in your teens.
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Andrej Karpathy's rules of thumb for doing well in undergrad courses, from skipping all-nighters and starting early to studying actively before exams.
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How fear of looking stupid held Kaminsky back from new things, and how learning Spanish in Mexico taught him to be bad at something in public.
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- the worst thing that can happen is that you’ll learnjanelle☆
The story of a comfortable copywriter who never actually chose his life, and how most people drift into jobs, homes, and routines by default.
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Nike's ten founding principles, written by Rob Strasser in 1977, including that the business is change, results matter more than process, and doing the right things makes money nearly automatic.
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- NewWhat to DoPaul Graham 7 min
Paul Graham's answer to what a person should do with their life: help people, take care of the world, and make good new things.
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Slide-style notes making the case for becoming generally capable and comfortable with failure, before a stalled life forces you to rethink your model of the world.
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