High Agency

… and over, I saw some of the highest performers just being people that had very high agency, had that clock speed, had that energy. Yes, they cared about the mission, but they didn't necessarily need to have deep experience on that matter.

I saw some of the highest performers just being people that had very high agency, had that clock speed, had that energy, but they didn't necessarily need to have deep experience on that matter. Sometimes experience could be a crutch,…

Yeah, a lot of it actually happens outside of the interview process interestingly. " A lot of it is, it's the references, it's the communication that they have to even set up your interview, it's the energy they bring into the conversation.

I like make it happen. Just a reminder that, at the end of the day, we could have a lot of motion.

… Um, but high agency, being able to just move forward and feel act like an owner, right? Ownership, that's the word.

… We look for people that are really high agency because we just recognize that by default, if we don't innovate and do crazy things, we're going to die. The company is just going to die.

… It is sort of high agency, does everything from setting up the project and all of that. And so now, we are working on assistant.

… It shows another trait, Mahika, in our archeological study, which has come up a bunch, and I'm just putting my finger on it, is just high agency. It feels like you're just consistently just like, "I'll make this happen myself.

… point you made about bottom up versus top down is really interesting, because, when I think of Meta, I think it's a very bottom up culture. I hear everyone comes up with their ideas, runs experiments, is very encouraged to just try…

I think the biggest thing, and there's a good Sam tweet somewhere in the ether about this from, I think, 2022 or something like that, but finding people who are high agency and work with urgency is one of the most... If I was hiring five…

… Folks are so high agency. They see a problem and they go and tackle it.

Finding people who are high agency and work with urgency, if I was hiring five people today, those are some of the top two characteristics that I would look for in people because you can take on the world if you have people who have high…

… it's helpful to start with a little higher level context on the unifying thesis. I think the unifying thesis is the core job of a product person in general is to turn ambiguity into clarity.

… And because of that we've developed, I think, this unique skill of high agency under high pressure. (34:49): And I really think that that skill or combination of skills is our superpower, and that is something you can take anywh...

… Eric Weinstein coined this term high agency, which once I discovered it resonated a lot and aligned with some of my ideas and the way I had defined this concept in my head for many years, that ...

… And so one of the things I encourage each of us to do is, as you said, high agency, like take control and say, what is the distance between here and there? And how do I get there?