Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
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dating these days - 2024 collection
are we one date away from our own 4B movement :_(
First
Remember: doing experience design well — making beautiful, wondrous, kind, breathtaking things, requires...you.
You, specifically.
Your weird, full, curious brain and tender little inside self. It wants for emergence and energy and is hungry to be inspired.
And those things need the fallow seasons. The spaces of nothingness and slugtime and dark... See more
Remember: doing experience design well — making beautiful, wondrous, kind, breathtaking things, requires...you.
You, specifically.
Your weird, full, curious brain and tender little inside self. It wants for emergence and energy and is hungry to be inspired.
And those things need the fallow seasons. The spaces of nothingness and slugtime and dark... See more
Time for the dark
time is richer than just unfolding seconds. It’s textured, charged with emotional valence and energy that are arguably more indicative metrics to consider besides its objective duration. In its focus on the quantitative measure, it forgets the subjective quality of time – otherwise known as kairos – that is not measured, but experienced in deep exh... See more
in this world, you measure time in emotional valence.
Remain playful as your responsibilities increase. It's easy to become serious when people and results depend on you, but nearly everyone's performance improves when they proceed lightly through the world.
One of the great balancing acts in life is to be cautious and daring at the same time. Cautious enough to avoid stupid mistakes, prevent burnout, and maintain a margin of safety. Daring enough to bet on yourself, to do the things you would regret leaving undone, and to be willing to be uncomfortable in the short term so you can learn and grow in th
... See moreMy job is not to think about what exists but rather what I want that does not yet exist.
Lessons I'm still learning
“The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small.”
3-2-1: On progress, friendship, and how to improve your writing
Fear is a yield, not a stop sign. It doesn’t always mean not to proceed. Sometimes it just means you care.
The day I compromise what I write to satisfy the whims of some corporate overlord is the day that I quit writing for a career.