First Draft Club

I don’t care about agency. Or, more accurately: I think agency is merely a means to an end.

I generally applaud the idea that people can and should take action in their lives. I want people to be empowered and opportunity to be distributed. I think we should design our tools and environments to enhance individual and collective agency.

However, agency as a concept feels dangerously void without a guiding purpose. As @jihad recently challenged us, “What are we actually working toward? What values drive our work? What kind of world are we trying to create?” (link to his essay below)

I’ve been thinking a lot about what my guiding purpose is. Right now, I think the answer is *flourishing*. I want humans to feel healthy, happy, and connected. I want to design things that help people find their own purpose, as well as the people and places that help them become the best versions of themselves.

Flourishing is still a broad concept, but it's at least a start in the right direction.

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intention/motivation can get lost without agency

and agency is directionless without intention/motivation