Agalia Tan

You may be creating a series of moments which will be scripted, but as an experience designer, the experience you create will be what matters most. Your diagram should assist in that process. It lists every scene, and gives vital data about those scenes, but the first thing you notice is the overall intention behind each part - what is more physica... See more

“counterfeit fitness”: the constant, momentary “wins” that come with playing digital games give us a false sense of progression and accomplishment, a neurochemical high that feels like victory but is not, and which, if it becomes a habit, risks placating our ambitions to pursue true fulfilment.

Stop treating knowledge work as manual work. Instead of measuring success by irrelevant or arbitrary metrics, ask yourself, Did I contribute today?

Did you advance the conversation? Did you solve a problem? Did you come up with a good idea? Did you help a colleague or a client?

Dialectic conversation is about an exchange of views and ideas which resolves itself in consensus. The goal is to align the participants under a mutually agreed resolution they can all support from that point forwards.

Essentially, there is one right answer.

Dialogic conversation, on the other hand, isn’t about reaching a consensus. It’s about an exc... See more

Success in this culture is measured not just by professional or personal achievements but by how well you adhere to an ever-expanding list of wellness trends. It always seems like there’s another benchmark to hit. Social media significantly amplifies this competition – curated snapshots create unrealistic expectations and foster comparison, leaving... See more

The future won’t be built merely by those who move fastest, but by those who remember how to stand still. Until we recover the courage to receive what we cannot produce, we will mistake velocity for vision. And we’ll keep accelerating—not toward the good, but simply away from the ground.

AND, we humans love to unwrap things. It’s both the tantalizing feeling of anticipation and the manifestation of care and time invested by the gift giver — that someone bothered to make this thing itself an experience. It contains a before and an after, a transformation and a threshold.

This doesn’t mean there aren’t beautiful digital treats. But t... See more

"When you're on the field, play as if nothing else matters.

When you're off the field, remember that the game doesn't matter at all."