Being Agentic

January 12th, 2024 (9 months ago) • 2 minutes

I learned a new word today - it's called Agentic. Being Agentic meant that you are in control of yourself to organize your own goals, actions, and destiny.

Some agency hacks that I learnt today to be more agentic:

• Find thing that you are willing to do that others aren't, often because they are annoying or unpleasant. These are often the things that are most valuable, but also the things that are most likely to be overlooked.

• Court rejection. If you are not getting rejected often, you are not trying hard enough or you are not aiming high enough. Learn to absorb rejection and court it.

• Seek real feedback. Few people do it, but yet it's the most impactful. To get good feedback, provide a way for people to do it anonymously. Anything else create friction on the social level.

• Increase your luck surface layer. Cast a wide net by meeting new people, even if it random. You never know how an earlier acquaintance might help you in the future.

• Assume everything is learnable. Everything is learnable if you put in the time and effort. Even traits. Read a book, observe people, and practice.

• Learn to love low status moat. There will be a period of time where you actually suck when you are learning something new or did a life-changing decision. There are 2 option you can do

  • Cross silently - without the help of anyone. This is the most common way.
  • Cross loudly - with the help of others. Learn by doing.

  Prefer the later since it exponentially increase your learning speed.

• Don't work too hard. Work smart. Burn out is real. The company won't collapse without your work no matter how important you think that 1 particular feature or bugfix is. Take regular breaks before it's too late.