Agalia Tan

And then I paid attention. Not just to what the tools could do, but to how they made me feel. How were they changing me? The nature of work? What it feels like to be human.

And obviously that has caveats, but I think that fear is a good omen. I'm exploring the right stuff, you know, and it reminds me that, like it is hard and it can take time. And that's good. That's a good omen that I often don't even recognize as such. That framing is so key, it changes the entire experience of writing from like, terrified to like, ... See more

That's the thing. We're not a brand. We're not a company. We're human beings. Of course it's going to change every 30 seconds. We're following our lives.

You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well.

Increasingly, consumers (Gen Z’s especially) are seemingly ditching Bumble, Hinge, and Tinder in favor of apps that better cater to their preferences and behaviors. In the last 18 months or so, a new paradigm of dating apps has emerged, many of which draw upon growing behaviors around gaming, live and short-form video (Curtn, Lolly, Snack, Filter O... See more

After a lifetime working at mattering, I realized I had under-invested in what really mattered: Relationships.

the McNamara fallacy, as it came to be known, refers to our tendency to focus on the most quantifiable measures, even if doing so leads us from our actual goals. Put simply, we try to measure what we value, but end up valuing what we measure.