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Mark Fishman
@markfishman
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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Mark Fishman
@markfishman
Link to @jihad's essay (the whole series is worth a read): https://catchingstrays.substack.com/p/believe-in-something
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Andrew
@music2work2
Have been thinking about beliefs and core values a lot recently - we had to go through the process to work out what we wanted to be as a foundation. But this essay prompted me to look at myself. I use a knowledge management tool called Sublime - it's brilliant - I have a folder called: https://sublime.app/collection/remind-me-often - where i add stuff that - well - I'd like to be reminded of. So today I cut and pasted ('cos the ai ain't there yet) most of those entries into GPT's 1o reasoning model and asked it to distill my core beliefs and core values - this is what it came up with: “I believe in forging genuine human connections, taking a long-term approach over quick wins, celebrating small but consistent acts of creativity, curating meaningful ideas over shallow hype, and leading everything I do with kindness, nuance, and a spirit of service.” And I'm like - holy shit - that's not half bad - I do align with all of that. It has me curious to go back and expand on the process.
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