Agency is hard!

When people are mad or scared or stressed (the default emotional state in modernity), people often implicitly minimize how often they have to exercise it.

But it's a muscle.

If you don't use it, you lose it.

AI, used well, gives significant leverage to your agency.

But only if you exercise it with intention.

If you don't use it to extend your agency you will fall behind people who do.

In the future, imagine people exercising extreme amounts of agency… over increasingly frivolous things.

Not too dissimilar from landed gentry in the UK in the early 1800s, spending excessive time on increasingly frivolous things.

The most focused stamp collector ever.