# Agency

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Karl Yang]]
- Full Title: Agency
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/agency

## Highlights
- A consequence of defining your own rules is realizing how arbitrary the rules you think you’ve been handed are, and how other people aren’t even reading from the same book.
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- Spend 30 minutes with a lawyer, and you’ll discover even the letter of the law is much fuzzier than most people think. Then there’s enforcement, which can be charitably described as inconsistent.
    - Note: Very true
- You can’t do everything, but you can do a lot more than what you’re doing today.
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