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Agency, skill, and mastery are topics on which I have so many thoughts, and I am still discovering myself. This writing summarizes my position as of roughly April 2024. Agency, as pictured below, is to take on things, doing hard things without waiting for conditions to be perfect or otherwise blaming others or your circumstances. Examples of low agency: I could develop so much faster if only the code was not so crappy!  We would be already finished if this or that team had done their job properly!  If only my boss (or company) understood me, I could really do great things for this Company or my team! High agency behavior:  I'll try to make changes to the code/add tests/etc as I work on parts of it so that I will, over time, be faster. Let's see if there are ways that I...

Once again I am writing about a few things I learned from the Knowledge Project podcast. In this episode Sean Parrish (host) and Dr. Gio Valiante talk about getting out of the fear of failure . I found the discussion supremely valuable and decided to draw a small diagram to make sure I assimilated and retained the essential points. The diagram is below and is provided without further comments, as those are, well, in the podcast itself. Diagram from "The Knowledge Project Ep. #181"