agency
5 statements across 5 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 23, 2023 by Noah Weiss · across every show →
Everything said about agency, oldest first
Jul 23, 2023 neutral
Weiss: Joining a CEO with your functional background maximizes learning and frustration
“If you're joining a company and the CEO does the role that is your functional area of expertise, it's probably the area where you'll learn the most because they're hopefully world-class at it, but also when will you, you'll be the most frustrated at times beca…”
Jul 28, 2024 positive
Sep 7, 2025 positive
Ezinne Udezue: High agency means acting like a thermostat, not a thermometer
“Ownership is seeing that you can run, but I think agency assumes that you control, you're more of a thermostat than a thermometer. And that means that, hey, the thermometer is always measuring the temperature of the room, while a thermostat will change the tem…”
May 2, 2026 positive
Schoening: You can learn to build most things from scratch in months
“Just carefully look at how everything around you is made up by people that are no smarter than you, and realize that probably in the span of six to nine months, you can, for most things around you, figure out how to make it from scratch. And therefore you have…”
Sep 6, 2026 bullish
AI amplifies human agency by unbundling execution skill from creative desire
“So I think one of the really magical things is this is a technology that really amplifies our identity, our agency. It kind of unbundles skill from desire, for example. If you want to make music, you can make music now. You don't have to know how to play the p…”