Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Social media’s algorithms, Manifest Destiny style, took the wide-open space of my attention as empty land to be colonized. And to colonize desirable space, land has to be first defined as free, available for the taking. Which means, conveniently, the land has no life, or reason, or desire, unto itself and isn’t already a “home.” But my attention is... See more
Lia Purpura • The Ecology of Attention
Optimization alone can't get you novelty or interestingness.
You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well.
Paul Graham • The Need to Read
But the real dance will continue. Artists will continue to need context. It's what brings value and understanding to their work. People — many of them also artists — will continue to delight in interpreting and helping other people understand creative work. It's what brings us joy. This is the dance that matters. It hasn't stopped and it won't stop... See more
Yancey Strickler • The prestige recession
I used to be a parrot, echoing other people's ideas, opinions, and beliefs, because I wasn’t sure of my own. I thought that by ‘borrowing’ and mimicking, I’d be more likeable, it’d be easier to seem cool, clever, or to belong. Looking back now, it gives me the ick—the amount of shit I nodded along to, gross. I think I was scared of looking stupid, ... See more
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
With each passing month, social media is less social and more about media.
TURKEY_SCRAPS_v170
Mastery of language enables one to influence the sea of consciousness (starting with your own) and consciousness is the base layer of reality, which means the more you can shape it, the more you can enact magick (which is simply sculpting reality to your will) and the only reality-sculpting worthy of a human life is an egoless pursuit of the ultimate romance – that of tickling the divine.
The product is called Accio, after the spell used in the Harry Potter fantasy series for summoning objects.