Agalia Tan

“the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”

Energy and imagination make a wonderful combination. Each gets the best out of the other. Energy creates demand for the ideas produced by imagination, which thus produces more, and imagination gives energy somewhere to go. [5]

Merely having energy and imagination is quite rare. But to solve hard problems you need three more qualities: resilience, go... See more

Prioritizing pure feeling, so the idea goes, leads to people choosing bad, unsuitable partners, to acts of desperation and violence, to shirking your duties. That love can also be an incredibly redemptive force meshes uneasily with our sense of individualism, with our Protestant ethics. Controlling it requires an entire normative framework.

The internet is a dialogic space. There is no consensus, no cascading of a single point of view. There is no order.

The surge in searches for “real” reveals a deep tension in our collective psyche — a desire to pierce through the artificial, filtered, performative and algorithmic veil and to witness something fundamentally raw, human and intimate.

The paradox is that we seek authenticity through the very mechanisms of mediation (screens), which drive us to crave ... See more

It becomes something of a Faustian bargain, because our online habits and behaviors are carrion for tech vultures. As we scroll, they feast