AGENCY(7)              Miscellaneous Information Manual              AGENCY(7)

NAME
     Agency – origin of a name

DESCRIPTION
     When I registered this domain name, it was aspirational.  Intentionally
     so.  I wanted a new domain for a new identity, and I was thinking about
     personhood.  That's what causal agency means.

     It really was aspirational for me at the time.  I spent a lot of time
     wishing I could be a person, because I didn't feel like one.  I didn't
     feel real, like everyone else was.  I didn't have any power over my own
     life.  Things just happened to me, and I watched.  There wasn't really a
     “me” there.  The world was something that happened but that I couldn't
     interact with.  I felt like that for most of my life.

     But at some point I decided that, even if I wasn't now, one day I hoped
     to be an actual real life person.  Like most programmers I am dreadful at
     naming things, so I didn't come up with this clever domain name myself.
     I typed “person” into some thesaurus, and it gave back “causal agent”,
     and I realized agency is a TLD now.

     Maybe it's a little dramatic to label myself with the thing I didn't
     think I had.  But who knows, maybe it helped.  Because it took a few
     years, but I did become a person.  I feel real now.  I can change my own
     life and the world around me.  I have causal agency.

     I am really proud of this domain name.  I'm proud to put it on everything
     I make.  Every instance of it is a reminder that I did what I set out to
     do, and that I'm still doing it.

AUTHORS
     june <june@causal.agency>

     If anything in this post resonates with you, I want you to know that,
     whatever you think you can't do, it is possible, and you'll get there one
     day.

Causal Agency                   April 14, 2022                   Causal Agency