Agency, Ten Years On

Agency has become quite the buzzword on tech Twitter/X over the past year or so. I picked up what the word actually means at a Stanford high school summer program in 2012 and turned it into a habit at the CDTM in Munich between 2016 and 2018. Ten years out from when I applied, I wrote down what stuck: the seminars and the project work, the self-organized research semesters in the US, the friction…