Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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🌀 People are quietly quitting Instagram (👋 fellow lurkers)
🌀 They're adding friction to break the scroll (deleting apps, muting notifications)
🌀 They're building slower, smaller spaces (on Discord, WhatsApp… and most importantly around 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 tables again)
🌀 They're designing moments to experience, not to optimise for content
It’s not anti-digit... See more
🌀 They're adding friction to break the scroll (deleting apps, muting notifications)
🌀 They're building slower, smaller spaces (on Discord, WhatsApp… and most importantly around 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 tables again)
🌀 They're designing moments to experience, not to optimise for content
It’s not anti-digit... See more
It is tempting to make shortcuts. When writing or doing art or building software (or in any other way constructing paths for people to walk on), you can typically earn more if you cater to the marginal user, the one who is on the fence. But the marginal user is the least patient and least interested, so you have to simplify, reduce friction, make t... See more
On Shortcuts and Longcuts
Rodd Chant ®© on LinkedIn: #cannes #creativity #advertising | 27 comments
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what's after cannes if it's not it anymore?
“I’ve been reading a number of posts about Cannes this year, many are saying it seems to have lost its way.
Many have been saying it is now more an overpriced tech gathering than a celebration of smart advertising creativity.
Also, many noted the lack of young people. Why is that? Are they not interested? Or can’t afford to go? Or their agencies won’t pay to send them. Seems odd for an event such as Cannes not to be flooded with the next generation of talent.
Maybe it’s time for a new event. One that is purely dedicated to the creative craft of advertising. It doesn’t even have to include awards, maybe it would be better if it didn’t. Instead, focus on elevating and inspiring better creativity in the industry.
No mega yachts, no overpriced hotels, and no bookends. Just creativity. Now there’s an idea.”
in passively consuming what I was interested in, had I given up the agency to figure out what was truly meaningful to me?
— Filterworld , pg. 224
Stop Ignoring All the Mundane Miracles in Your Life
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things you should remember and what "living life to the fullest" looks like
Phones, with their ability to transport you to other worlds, want to convince you that the one you’re stuck in doesn’t have anything worth paying attention to. But through my journaling, I realized something: We’re shoulder to shoulder with many universes; countless lives, hopes, dreams and fears as complicated as our own, all clustered in the same crowded shops, train cars and sidewalks. Why ignore all that?
Life is modular, not linear. You don't choose a career at twenty-two and stick with it for forty years like some kind of professional arranged marriage. Instead of hunting for the mythical perfect tree, follow your curiosity. What ideas make you pause while scrolling? What conversations do you find yourself returning to days later? When a friend me... See more
Digital gardens have largely been understood as websites that allow users to explore and publish thoughts in more fluid and unpolished ways. The term “digital garden” is not new. It’s been shaped by almost two decades of pondering, from early tinkerings in Mark Bernstein’s 1998 essay “Hypertext Gardens” to Mike Caulfield’s 2015 talk “The Garden and... See more
Annika Hansteen-Izora • On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
“Our only goal when we started was to make anything we wanted and only what we wanted.”