Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Believing that everything will be better if only we gather more information commits us to endless searching and casting about, to one more swipe of the screen in the hope that the elusive bit of data, which will make everything clear, will suddenly present itself. From one angle, this is just another symptom of reducing our experience of the world ... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Answer Is Not More Information
The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We're like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something - the book you're writing, the album, the movie -and staying there for a long, long time
— STRATSCRAPS v101
Jia Tolentino’s 2019 essay in The Guardian, “Athleisure, Barre and Kale: the Tyranny of the Ideal Woman”, which resonates even more today: “Most pleasures end up being traps, and every public-facing demand escalates in perpetuity.”
Hannah Marcus • Competitive Wellness
If you are very, very bullish about technology, everything in the future will be about choices and values. Soon the bottleneck won’t be tech, it will be feeling and philosophy.
The future archetype of a technologist will be a magician.
Alex Dobrenko • Building hardware that heals, not hooks
The New Stack of Entertainment, Tensions of the AI Age, & Navigating Cambrian Explosions
Scott Belskyimplications.com
“Brands are fighting an uphill battle to get coverage these days,” said Sarah O’Grady, svp, marketing at Cision. “It’s not enough anymore to just announce news in a measured way.”
Another contributing factor to the rise of sensationalism is social media. Platforms and their algorithms tend to reward people who push things to the extreme. Strong emot... See more
Another contributing factor to the rise of sensationalism is social media. Platforms and their algorithms tend to reward people who push things to the extreme. Strong emot... See more
Paul Hiebert • Press Releases Have Become Way Too Hyperbolic
Optimization alone can't get you novelty or interestingness.
