Silicon Valley pundits are obsessed with the concept of ‘high agency.’ Here’s why you shouldn’t be

‘Feeling the power to make choices is not the same thing as making good ones.’

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BY Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

There’s an old joke I used to hear in Poland. A manager wants to hire a new employee and asks his assistant to collect résumés. A week later, she proudly carries a stack of résumés into his office and hands them to him. He takes half and throws them in the trash and says, “We don’t want people who are unlucky!”

In an oddly similar vein, Silicon Valley pundits are obsessed with the concept of “high agency,” popularized by Eric Weinstein, who described it this way: “When you’re told that something is impossible, is that........

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