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# the pivotal conversation about taking agency
-there was one conversation that changed everything. my mentor at a [[neurotech startup|wiki/research-notes/signal-processing-workflow]] sat me down and asked me how my day was. i said 70%. productive? yeah probs. and then he dropped it:
+there was one conversation that changed everything. my mentor at a [[neurotech startup|signal-processing-workflow]] sat me down and asked me how my day was. i said 70%. productive? yeah probs. and then he dropped it:
"it should be up to you. i feel intuitively that taking agency would be much better."
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when i asked why he cared about my acceleration so much, the answer wasn't what i expected. it wasn't pure altruism — though he did say he has a personal philosophy that there should be more good people in the world. it was also practical: the hiring bar was so high that even slightly increasing the chance of finding exceptional people was a worthwhile investment. i might be a potential deep hire, or i might pull in other potential deep hires.
-but the real insight was about [[acceleration vs position|wiki/mentorship/the-stocks-metaphor]]:
+but the real insight was about [[acceleration vs position|the-stocks-metaphor]]:
> "acceleration is much better than position. we have grown so much. if we started over with nothing, we could get back to this in 2-3 months."
## what changed
-after this conversation, things shifted. i started dropping stuff from my todo list that wasn't important. for the first time, i was really prioritizing. before, i thought [[intentionality|wiki/strategies/prioritization]] just meant getting rid of actions caused by fear and pleasure. but actually there was much more — especially the question of "great, i'll do work the entire day; what kind of work?"
+after this conversation, things shifted. i started dropping stuff from my todo list that wasn't important. for the first time, i was really prioritizing. before, i thought [[intentionality|prioritization]] just meant getting rid of actions caused by fear and pleasure. but actually there was much more — especially the question of "great, i'll do work the entire day; what kind of work?"
if i care about growth so much, why was i reflecting on a math camp that was mediocre compared to this? why was i going to some finance essentials program? why was i working on my own stuff while at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?
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-*see also: [[the stocks metaphor|wiki/mentorship/the-stocks-metaphor]], [[intentionality for selecting work|wiki/strategies/prioritization]], [[disagreeing productively|wiki/mentorship/disagreeing-productively]]*
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+*see also: [[the stocks metaphor|the-stocks-metaphor]], [[intentionality for selecting work|prioritization]], [[disagreeing productively|disagreeing-productively]]*
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