https://www.abanhasan.net/tags/agency/Recent content in agency on Aban HasanHugo -- gohugo.ioenMon, 14 Jul 2025 13:28:19 +0530https://www.abanhasan.net/posts/grain-vitality-and-the-lamarckian-lens/Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:28:19 +0530https://www.abanhasan.net/posts/grain-vitality-and-the-lamarckian-lens/“The most emaciated, low-vitality cultures that racists berate eat the most grain.” This is an ugly observation. The kind of statement that hangs in the air, thick with the weight of unsavory history. The typical response is to recoil, to dismiss it as a crude stereotype and nothing more. But what if, instead of dismissing it, we dared to dissect it? What if we could flip this ugly statement from a tool of racial prejudice into a fruitful scientific question?https://www.abanhasan.net/posts/cyber-slaves/Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000https://www.abanhasan.net/posts/cyber-slaves/Clarity. All we seek is clarity. Yet, it appears that everything around us – everything we see, everything we touch – is designed to be noisy, to disrupt every thought we have before it can fully form. Entire teams of researchers, scientists, psychologists devote their lives to finding and “pulling the right” switch in our minds, optimizing for engagement, for distraction. Our inherent capital – the finite time and vibrant youth we possess – is systematically siphoned off to feed the mainframe, the ever-hungry digital systems that thrive on our attention.https://www.abanhasan.net/posts/thewaragainstheteronomy/Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:38:35 +0530https://www.abanhasan.net/posts/thewaragainstheteronomy/Image: The Pathways of Choice - representing the autonomy that comes from recognizing our power to choose Prelude Our Great War’s a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. — Tyler Durden, Fight Club Recently, I came across a thread on X by the brilliant Andrej Karpathy, which made me reflect deeply on the nature of action and its relation to both individual fulfillment and collective progress. Agency > Intelligence