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🌻 you can just do things (ft. anson & hudzah)

May 9, 2025
Join Anson Yu, a systems design graduate and co-founder of an AI-for-hardware startup, alongside HudZah, a math whiz with an impressive track record of creative projects. They discuss the importance of youth agency, sharing how community and family shape ambition. Anson shares insights from his climate documentary journey, while HudZah humorously recounts his DIY nuclear fusor adventure. Together, they explore the evolving role of AI in fostering creativity and their unique experiences navigating unconventional career paths.
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ANECDOTE

Early Agency Through Greenhouse Startup

  • HudZah started a greenhouse company with a friend in Sri Lanka at age 12, navigating risks alone.
  • This gave him his first meaningful experience of exercising free will and agency independent of family.
ANECDOTE

Leadership Experience in High School Charity

  • Anson ran a serious high school charity for children with disabilities and learned how to operate like an adult leader.
  • She conducted interviews and raised large funds, discovering how the world treats you as seriously as you treat it.
INSIGHT

Agency as a Self-Replicating Bank

  • Agency can spread like a bank of trust and reciprocity among people, growing as it is shared.
  • Having one strong role model or friend ignite agency can set off a self-replicating chain of empowerment.
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