Agency > Intelligence: Owning Your actions in an era of AI.
Attention now acts as the primary form of data. Every decision, focus point, and action contributes to shaping outcomes. Own your attention, Own your data.
For decades, people valued intelligence as the key measure of capability. Society prized high IQ, raw cognitive ability, and intellectual depth. However, with the rise of LLMs, intelligence no longer presents the main constraint. It exists on tap, freely accessible. Anyone can retrieve knowledge, analyze patterns, and generate insights at scale.
What remains scarce? Agency.
AI models can mimic aspects of human thought, but they cannot replace human will. They do not decide. They do not commit. They do not take ownership. Intelligence now functions as a readily available resource, but execution—turning knowledge into action—depends entirely on human agency.
Attention now acts as the primary form of data. Every decision, focus point, and action contributes to shaping outcomes. High-agency individuals do not passively consume AI-generated insights; they direct them toward impact. They ask precise questions, refine outputs, and then—most importantly—act.
The future will not belong to the most intelligent individuals. It will belong to those who take radical ownership of their path, work, and outcomes. AI does not replace agency; it amplifies those who already possess it. The real question does not concern how much intelligence you have, but rather how much agency you exercise over the intelligence at your disposal.
Do you operate as if you have 10X agency? Because in this new era, that will set you apart.
