Elements of maximal agency/successful mediocrity in order of importance
1. Boldness
2. Patience
3. Recent luck/(=“confidence”)
4. Power gradient position
5. Harmony with context
6. Life effort “interest rate”
7. Pack loyalty
8. Collaborators
9. Information
10. Intelligence
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Note to self: not sure if imagination belongs here as a basic variable or is a function of these
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Feel like a quality like rigour should be in there somewhere.
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I actually think rigor is specifically *not* on the list. This is more Kirk agency than Spock agency
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I'd place #6 at #1. All the others except #10 are caused by #6.
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Harmony with context feels undervalued at #5. In the long term it might matter more than boldness. Which begs the question. Is this a high client-churn kind of Kirk agency? Think I just answered my own question





