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Cultivating Agency - by Charles Yang - Rough Drafts

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Previously, I wrote about how I moved from working at an AI startup to the government and a series on how I became involved in local organizing, both for the chinese-american community I was raised in and for general urbanism topics e.g. housing and (e-)biking. From all these adventures, I’ve realized a few things: The world is far more malleable than we give ourselves credit for.12 Nothing is worse than strong convictions not acted upon. Feeling frustrated with the brokenness of the world, but not having any agency in actually shifting it for the better, is incredibly alienating and frustrating (and yes, this describes many people on reddit/twitter)!3 The converse is that it is incredibly liberating and empowering to even have small windows of agency to change one’s local environment. It took me a few years to understand what I cared about and how I could be effective in the issues I cared about. But surprise, surprise - one person is not enough! Which brings me to the current questio

Cultivating Agency Featuring a 2x2 Charles Yang Mar 23, 2024 17 2 Share Previously, I wrote about how I moved from working at an AI startup to the government and a series on how I became involved in local organizing, both for the chinese-american community I was raised in and for general urbanism topics e.g. housing and (e-) biking . From all these adventures, I’ve realized a few things: The world is far more malleable than we give ourselves credit for . 1 2 Nothing is worse than strong convictions not acted upon. Feeling frustrated with the brokenness of the world, but not having any agency i

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