Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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A creative practice is not a substitute for living alongside people, for sharing memories and learning from each other. A portfolio is not a substitute for a community.
MØRNING • Q̾u̾i̾c̾k̾ ̾F̾i̾r̾e̾: Creation Anxiety
the metrics, outward success, markers of “making it”, numbers, likes, popularity, visibility, praise or criticism or being ignored, awards, highlights, or trajectory that might come from what we make don’t matter much if we aren’t enjoying the process of making what we make.
"The algorithm is metonymic for companies as a whole," he told me. "The Facebook algorithm doesn't exist;
Facebook exists. The algorithm is a way of talking about Facebook's decisions."
— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka
What is YOUR rule of logic? How can you train your online algorithm?
In life there are no final statements, no final acts, and even the most final of acts is a question. Which is: where am i going ?
And: did it matter ?
And: did it matter ?
{D} 119: Yes but what's your question
I find explaining any actually interesting idea usually requires explaining like 5 subsidiary ideas. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky it’s like 25 and either they’re ready for a three hour lecture or you’re not going to succeed.
Emmett Shear • Tweet
Communication failures like these make for good storytelling where we, the audience, get to watch the characters stumble towards understanding. But you shouldn’t live like someone waiting for the screenwriter of your life to arrange a convenient resolution. Functional people don’t let things linger unspoken — they name what’s facing them out loud.
Cate Hall • Are you stuck in movie logic?
As a strategist, if you want rare insight, you need to have access to rare perspectives and those come from people, not publications or posts on social media.
