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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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john
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intention/motivation can get lost without agency and agency is directionless without intention/motivation
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huugo
@huugo.eth
I kind of agree with this sentiment. The driving narrative to much of my educational track was “agency” . It felt like a call to action — you have the ability/need to act on your own ideas. However in a review once, I said something to that effect and the critic came back with something to the effect “you are all so focused on agency, ownership, etc” What was not said, however, was that in being so focused on the idea of action, I wasn’t spending any time actually having a good idea.
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