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Comments - How to be More Agentic - by Cate Hall

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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

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…

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