Focus on Giving People Back Their Agency

It's understandable for people to grieve after they have suffered a big loss, like an election that threatens to disenfranchise them. But the key to 2025 is not letting fear dominate your life and surrendering your agency.

The challenge is ensuring that grief doesn't manifest as fear and eventual loss of agency. You can read this as don't let fear of failure consume your outlook. And take away the initiative that leads to future success.

Semantically, you could say that agency is about an individual's ability to act and think independently. It's about making choices. It's about taking advantage of the new opportunities that Agentic AI will present in the future.

For the record, the Agentic AI Repo Newsletter is not a place for politics. However, there are times when a technological innovation becomes a social movement. This is, obviously, one of those times.

Agentic AI refers to systems that use prior knowledge and predefined goals to decide what action to take. These systems are not intelligent in the human sense. They are more capable toasters and washing machines.

Repos are safe places for learning. They are places of experimentation. You could even make the case that they are places where you can kick the tires on Agentic AI and share what you learn.

In 2025, let's make Agentic AI Repo a place where we focus on giving people back their agency.