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Agency and clock speed beat domain experience in a hire, and in a fast-moving field experience is often a crutch of habits that need discarding.

Drawn from what Albert Cheng said

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agency Acting on the world rather than waiting: what it does for work, whether it can be learned, and whether AI widens or takes it.

Curse of knowledge

Which mental models should a designer think with?under our view: What you know is hard to unsee: borrow a newcomer's eyes, or your own after time away Why does agency matter?under our view: Agency, more than ideas or experience, is what makes work excellent

What Albert Cheng actually said

  1. Albert Cheng Head of growth at Chess.com
    I saw some of the highest performers just being people that had very high agency, had that clock speed, had that energy. Um, yes, they they cared about the mission, but they didn't necessarily need to have deep experience on that matter. And in fact, sometimes that experience could be a crutch in certain ways. Especially in this world where the grounds are shifting so fast with AI, a lot of your like learn habits actually need to be intentionally discarded. You know, you need to have a beginner's mind on this type of stuff.

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