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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Chasing Greatness Native @nativestudio_ · Jan 6 · Follow 3 15 44 22K What’s the right way to be great? Let me tell you a little about how last year went for me. I began 2025 with a short piece called "Markets and Morality" that set the tone for my thinking throughout the year. I argued that markets depend on moral foundations they can't generate themselves. Without people who believe in something beyond profit, capitalism corrodes into pure extraction. Soon after I published it, Timothée Chalamet's SAG speech went viral—"I’m really in pursuit of greatness," he said, "I know people don't usually talk like that"—and outside of tech circles, I was surprised to see people calling him arrogant. He was aiming high and making his goals clear. What's the harm in that? I spent the rest of the year writing about agency, trying to work out what it actually means to be agentic. Hint: it's not "just doing things,” which became

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