Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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machines are trying to be more human, but are we?
Everyone exaggerates. Sometimes it’s fun. Sometimes it’s annoying. Sometimes it’s outright deceiving. The risk of too much corporate cheer is that it turns off the very people it’s trying to win over: journalists. They don’t trust it. And if they don’t trust it, chances are they aren’t going to cover it.
Some starting points for other people to learn from? Adjacent industries (education, film / tv, and publishing all have interesting lessons to teach), the OGs (retired / legendary ad people love to write books about the good old days and the first principles hold up nicely), and academics (imagine a ‘grown up’ version of our world, but with infinit... See more
Jon Crowley • Why you aren’t getting better.
I know that almost nobody hears too many sincere compliments. Compliment them to their face. Then, compliment them behind their back. Practice naming pleasant feelings you have about people, as soon as they bubble up, in the moment: “It’s always fun to see you.” Lower the resistance around this to zero.
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
There is no one “singular culture.” Personal perception is the other key variable here.
Matt Klein • Making Sense of Culture Amidst Contradiction
dimensionalise, always
The way of the tourist is to consume; the way of the pilgrim is to be consumed. To the tourist the journey is a means. The pilgrim understands that it is both a means and an end in itself. The tourist and the pilgrim experience time differently. For the former, time is the foe that gives consumption its urgency. For the latter, time is a gift in wh... See more
The Tourist and the Pilgrim
New Yorkers Are Turning to Dinner Party-Style Restaurants to Make Friends (and Find Dates)
Eaterny.eater.comBut the repetitive, difficult nature of leaning into commodity production can give us insight, humility and skill. It helps us understand just how hard the hard parts are, and creates an opportunity to bring innovation to the work to be done.
Learning the skill and caring enough to show up to implement it, again and again, can give us the foundation... See more
Learning the skill and caring enough to show up to implement it, again and again, can give us the foundation... See more
Seth's Blog : In defense of the hard parts
And I think more and more, this dynamic is going to show up outside of art.
Things will appear simple or easily replicable on the surface.
You’ll hear people say:
“Anyone could’ve made that with ChatGPT.”
But the more and better access everyone has to tools, the clearer it becomes that the final bottleneck to great work is not knowledge or information.... See more
Things will appear simple or easily replicable on the surface.
You’ll hear people say:
“Anyone could’ve made that with ChatGPT.”
But the more and better access everyone has to tools, the clearer it becomes that the final bottleneck to great work is not knowledge or information.... See more
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
we could all become dangerous in days. the lapse between effort and result gets shorter?
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