- [https://x.com/karpathy/status/1894099637218545984](https://x.com/karpathy/status/1894099637218545984)
  - "Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?"

Related:

- [https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-be-more-agentic](https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-be-more-agentic) - find real edges, seek feedback, increase surface area of luck, believe that anything is learnable
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vZXgApsPCQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vZXgApsPCQ) - ask for what you want, absorb rejection, make your intuition about what is reasonable accurate
- [https://map.simonsarris.com/p/school-is-not-enough](https://map.simonsarris.com/p/school-is-not-enough) - go off script, attempt to do difficult things which then act as a multiplier for confidence and knowledge
- [https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/](https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/) - you can just do things
- [https://meteuphoric.com/2014/03/25/how-to-trade-money-and-time/](https://meteuphoric.com/2014/03/25/how-to-trade-money-and-time/) - be aware of the value of your time
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20220309155302/https://dwarkeshpatel.com/barbell-strategies/](https://web.archive.org/web/20220309155302/https://dwarkeshpatel.com/barbell-strategies/) - i like this one, meaningful things in life are in the tails, relates to our normal distribution meme

Agency is more important than intelligence