Agalia Tan

What is the Downshift Decelerator?

The Downshift “Decelerator” is designed to help professionals slow down, reflect, and realign with their deeper values and desires.

Unlike accelerators that focus on rapid growth and scaling, decelerators emphasize introspection, self-discovery, and intentional living to foster personal and professional transformati... See more

My sensibility is basically consistent, and dovetails easily with the rest of my life and personality, because I came about it organically versus by algorithm.

I told someone recently I was looking for love who responded “in this economy?" I feel pathetic admitting this, someone else texted me, but I want a boyfriend. When I scroll through TikTok, skinny women wearing sweatbands dole out romantic advice: if he wanted to he would, no sex until the third date, how to get him to commit, red flags, green flag... See more

"frictionless experiences with technology mean that we notice less about the tools we’re using and what it is they actually do. This, he thinks, promotes a kind of self-absorption. We don’t see ourselves as being in conversation with our tools or the physical world; instead, we see ourselves as masters of our environment, with the expectation that ... See more

At its best, cultural criticism is love and art that exists to give love to other expressions of art. It's beautiful in its indulgence.

When everything is measured in terms of engagement, content will be optimized for addictiveness. Not entertainment or artistic merit. Not intellectual substance or creativity. Pure, plain addictiveness.

Simplicity takes an enormous amount of time and effort.