📫 Dreams & Agency – Weekend Words #079

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April 18, 2026

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Your weekend words are: dreams and agency.

“The one thing I would say to my daughter Poppy that is sitting over there, ‘Never give up on your dreams. Never, ever give up on your dreams.”

— Rory McIlroy on winning the Masters & his emotional speech  🎤🥹

More on the Masters in Tuesday’s email

“High agency is, in my opinion, the most under-discussed and most important idea in the 21st century. It’s one of those ideas that once you see it, you can’t quite unsee it. It’s everywhere. But the problem with it is it’s quite hard to define.”

— George Mack, Author of High Agency

To help explain high agency, George tells a story about “the most apex high agency guy. A guy named Wilbur.”

Revisit another essay from George Mack in Thursday’s email

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