Comments - How to be More Agentic - by Cate Hall

These are wonderful tactics. Yet I'm thinking about this phrase - "big, glaring edges that people might rather ignore." Beyond making more ambitious asks and meeting more people, how do you develop a way to see those edges that other people ignore? I believe Paul Graham had a roughly related concept in "schlep blindness." I think getting better at noticing the things you don't want to do helps; they are often the same things. Like, for a long time I ignored people saying sleep or exercise were important for mental health, because I preferred not to do them -- but unsurprisingly they turned out to be quite important. Similarly, I avoided anything that might be called networking for decades. Anything that you tend to wave off with "yeah, I probably SHOULD but" is potentially a good candidate. That's interesting - I have a decent list of "I probably SHOULD"s at any given moment, though I've probably tricked myself into seeing them as "things I've thought about and determined won't have po

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