Agalia Tan

Some companies go all in on the ecstasy - ‘here’s our magical vision for the future’. Others commit to the laundry - look at our rich feature-set isn’t it amazing?”

For this reason, I suspect that many of my friends who write and publish rapidly are shortchanging themselves. They generate texts filled with hidden doors and move on before they’ve opened them.

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.

And here’s what’s really sad: Many, many people in this world are terrified of real connection that unfolds in real time. This means that anything that makes you seem real will set them on edge. They would prefer a painted backdrop, where they can mouth the same lines and get the same predictable responses from everyone they meet. They don’t even r... See more

The writing is all designed in advance. Is a conversation more truthful than that? Or in the context that we're talking about, is the conversation as a medium just more entertaining, a better way to grab the audience's focus?

“Connectivity between restaurants and guests has eroded. There’s a difference between knowing it’s someone’s birthday and being able to contact that person and invite them in for a drink.” - Ben Leventhal

Blackbird transforms traditional loyalty systems and fosters a more interactive and valuable relationship between consumers and businesses.