Doshi's observation that the phrase "give me agency" is self-contradicting: "when you say give me agency, you are already giving up agency by the very definition of the term." Agency is self-generated action taken without waiting for permission; framing it as something to be granted by someone else is itself the abdication.
This sharpens Hollow Empowerment Declaration (Abdication Mistaken for Empowerment) from the other direction — that concept covers leaders who declare empowerment without meaning it; this one covers the individual-level mistake of requesting empowerment as if it were a resource to be issued. Both point to the same underlying fact: agency/influence in a PM Guided culture is claimed through competent action, not distributed on request. See Learnable vs. Teachable (Skill-Acquisition Distinction) for the companion claim that high agency, specifically, is learned through practice rather than taught.