Alec Resnick@aresnick·Nov 13, 2014Replying to @pmarca@pmarca serious Q: overall, do you find that your mental models of the world more frequently align with the powerful or powerless?214
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @aresnick@aresnick @pmarca my personal distinction is those who focus on agency vs those who focus on helplessness5:41 PM · Nov 13, 20142 Likes
Alec Resnick@aresnick·Nov 13, 2014Replying to @vgr@vgr @pmarca … generate dramatically different interventions, cultures.1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Nov 13, 2014Replying to @aresnick@aresnick @pmarca Dev of agency is hard. I think for most people ship has sailed by 14. Grip of acting-dead hard to break after that4
Alec Resnick@aresnick·Nov 13, 2014Replying to @vgr@vgr @pmarca important aspect that that elides is the mental model for the development of agency—different locus of control assumptions …
Michael Nielsen@michael_nielsen·Nov 13, 2014Replying to @vgr@vgr @aresnick's original question is still a very good one, & more interesting (in this particular context) than agency versus helplessness2