A few weeks ago I was talking to a very high-agency friend (the best kind) and I had the interesting realization that I’ve been role-playing having agency my whole life. Which was a shock! What I mean by this is that I act like I have agency, and I believe I have agency, but I don’t actually have the internal experience of having agency. The realization was prompted by many interactions with this friend and crystallized during a conversation about hearing her describe what it was like to be a founder. My story was that her internal experience was almost like a video game—despite the open-ended nature of the worl
Role-playing agency
Role-playing agency
Role-playing agency
A few weeks ago I was talking to a very high-agency friend (the best kind) and I had the interesting realization that I’ve been role-playing having agency my whole life. Which was a shock! What I mean by this is that I act like I have agency, and I believe I have agency, but I don’t actually have the internal experience of having agency. The realization was prompted by many interactions with this friend and crystallized during a conversation about hearing her describe what it was like to be a founder. My story was that her internal experience was almost like a video game—despite the open-ended nature of the worl