Evolve Agency
How can you expand your capability to shape what happens next?
- CAPTURE INTENTION
- ENGINEER & BUILD
- MEASURE CONSEQUENCE
- ITERATE OR SHIP
- DEEPER REFLECTION
Flow of thought to flow of energy with minimal friction.
ENERGY SYSTEMS
The critical question isn't whether AI will be powerful. It's where you create irreplaceable value.
| Agent | Fuel | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Beings | Electricity, data, code | Speed, scale, pattern recognition |
| Human Beings | Food, sleep, connections | Purpose, meaning, ethics, narrative |
Data and energy are the lifeblood of any AI-driven economy—but culture remains king.
T-Shaped Agency
Wide perspective, deep commitment. The Dream Engineer model:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ← HORIZONTAL: reach, distribute, connect
┃
┃ ← VERTICAL: build, transform, ship
┃
| Bar | Skills | Creates |
|---|---|---|
| Horizontal (soft) | Sales, marketing, storytelling, negotiation, networking | Distribution - how value reaches people |
| Vertical (hard) | Engineering, design, production, coding, making | Transformation - how value gets created |
Master both = unstoppable. Ideas without distribution die quiet. Distribution without substance is noise.
Wide at top (curiosity feeds the hopper). Narrow at bottom (filter hard, commit fully). Ten ideas at 10% = zero shipped. One idea at 100% = something real.
Development
🗃️ Capabilities
16 items
🗃️ Character
2 items
🗃️ Drive
6 items
📄️ Foundations
What can you actually control?
🗃️ Productivity
3 items
Predictions
Based on 2026 predictions:
- 90% of knowledge work becomes automatable — but automatable ≠ automated
- Education splits — credential factories vs agency accelerators
- Portfolios replace degrees — what you shipped > what you studied
- The only robust career is entrepreneurship — self-directed value creation
Agency becomes the explicit curriculum. Not a byproduct of education—the subject itself.
| What's Taught | How It's Built |
|---|---|
| Initiative | Ship before anyone asks |
| Resilience | Fail publicly, iterate openly |
| AI Fluency | Extend capability, not replace judgment |
| Building | Four years of projects > four years of classes |
This is the game as education. See Education Transformation.
What Remains Human?
AI will handle routine cognition. Incentives will be engineered by machines that understand all our biases. What remains?
- Selling - trust requires character
- Purpose - meaning can't be computed
- Ethics - judgment requires skin in the game
- Narrative - stories need a storyteller with stakes
Use AI to extend your agency, not replace it. Keep purpose in human hands. Offload pattern recognition to machines.
Find your point of difference. Develop capabilities that compound. Build conviction through action.
Play long-term games with long-term people. Build systems where better data and cheaper energy amplify character—not undermine it.
How do you see the future? Where can you offer a valued point of difference?