Agalia Tan

Looking for love sounds more like chasing the high of an extreme sport, trust falling with someone you don’t really know like that. It demands exacting reciprocity, extreme vulnerability. It brings out people’s basest and most primal instincts and a frightening desire to merge into someone else. When the girlies on TikTok talk about dating, they ra... See more

most social networks suffer from the weight of objectives

You always hear people say, "Well, it's the market, it's the market." What the hell does that mean? I don't even know what that means as opposed to what did you do to ... I mean, the world's going to exist whether you like it or not. I always say I got to live in this world; I don't create it. The world's happening, what are you going to do about i... See more

Maybe the only thing worse than being paid off to have an opinion, is guessing and adopting others’ opinions out of fear of being “wrong” about your own.

In an era of personal brands and monetizable reputations, every single one of our posts is a performance. If you exist online, there is no such thing as authenticity. This only becomes more true, ... 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."

But it takes nothing away from her indisputable talent to also observe that Bush was lucky to have encountered people who rather than try and commodify and shave the edges off her art and persona in the name of a quick win, committed to her for the long term, invested in her development both as a human being and as an artist, and encouraged her to ... See more

a lot of times ideas and projects are formed out of a more ambient kind of thinking and talking and doing. Research is not always this thing of sitting down and concentratedly looking through archives or something.