Cultivating Agency

would bend to them. I assumed they had people to impress, parents to please, siblings to rival, rivals to beat. I assumed their true desires were relatable: community, or intimacy, to simply be loved and understood. I knew that building systems, and getting them to work, was its own deep satisfaction—but I assumed everyone wanted more. I was always

You've noticed that more and more people grow up seeing themselves as a candidate emissary of the macro World, the Human Condition. That is, more people feel entitled to take shots at pushing on the frontier edges of the Human Condition, and help steer its next update, big or small.