Carpe diem, amirite ladies? You know, even when I look at pictures of people who are now dead and wonder if they'd actually be telling me to seize the day—there's this small inclination I have to call bullshit, or at the very least question what that even means. The current meme going around in Silicon Valley, and other places where AI is getting shoved down people's throats at work, is that a top candidate is someone who is "high-agency." I guess that's just a fancy rebranding of other corpospeak colloquialisms like "self-starter" or whatever, and it's funny because the euphemistic language is such a subtle crack of the whip. "Show initiative, unless we don't like it," or something to that effect. It's a strange thing to me because our pluralistic world seems to hold great esteem toward self-determination, that we are the ones responsible for our choices and lot in life. It seems that there's this weird dissonance between that value for self-determination and submission to authority.…
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