Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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We’re allowed to be wrong, have conviction and engage in market making. That’s not the problem. The problem is, without reflection or accountability – top-down or bottom-up – hype trains keep running, no one stops to learn, and nothing ever changes.
Matt Klein • Accountability Is Not for Suckers
Hype compounds when many orgs farm their own “evidence.” Plant a trend name, seed it through press connections, then point to the growing mentions of it as proof of accuracy. But this is information laundering – astroturfing. It’s anything but a “prediction.” (No, you were not ahead of the “pickle girl summer aesthetic” trend. You just forced it... See more
Accountability Is Not for Suckers
prediction markets aggregate a very particular kind of participant – informed, motivated individuals willing to put money behind their expectations. Skin in the game produces a sharper signal than surveys or passive listening. People lie in surveys. They bet cash when they mean it.
Your brand is already being traded
NOSOWITZ: So the Golden Age of Hollywood, a lot of the biggest movies from that era are very kind of aspirational, very fancy, very upper crusty. They were stories about people who you kind of dreamed of being.
Starting in the late '60s and early '70s, a whole new wave of directors, like John Cassavetes, Francis Ford Coppola, those kind of guys,... See more
Starting in the late '60s and early '70s, a whole new wave of directors, like John Cassavetes, Francis Ford Coppola, those kind of guys,... See more
'Atlas Obscura' Explores Roots Of The So-Called Mid-Atlantic Accent
elocution class was where they taught you how to speak properly. So in the prep schools, those elocution classes were based on an attempt to sound worldly. And in the late 19th century, which is when this started, the way to sound worldly and cultured was to sound sort of British. So that's how people were taught to speak, a sort of British way.
'Atlas Obscura' Explores Roots Of The So-Called Mid-Atlantic Accent
hollywood midatlantic accent
The goal is pretty simple, really. I want us to all build wardrobes that make us happy, last a long time, and help us feel more like ourselves.
Welcome to Wardrobe
“The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous. Infinite play resounds throughout with a kind of laughter.
It is not a laughter at others who have come to an unexpected end, having thought they were going somewhere else.
It is laughter with others with whom we have discovered that the end we thought we were coming to has
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