Agalia Tan

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.

Sarah Bahbah is known for pushing creative boundaries with her work, but “Can I Come In?”, the new series commissioned by WePresent, is the multi-hyphenate artist’s most ambitious work to date. Not quite a documentary, not a podcast and definitely not your standard interview series, “Can I Come In?” is instead something new—an emotionally charged, ... See more

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Feedback is a gift

Honest, thoughtful feedback is a gift. While it's fun to think about how other people should change their approach, it's empowering to know that you have control as a feedback recipient. You're 50% of a one-on-one feedback conversation, so if the conversation isn't going the way you hoped, think about what you could do differentl... See more

To find a good relationship, you do not start by saying, “I want a relationship that looks like this”—that would be starting in the wrong end, by defining form. Instead you say, “I’m just going to pay attention to what happens when I hang out with various people and iterate toward something that feels alive”—you start from the context.

The truth is, the circulation of snackable, ‘life-altering’ content is way more than a quirky trend. It’s an embodiment of a much larger, manifesto-fication of personal beliefs in the digital era, where advice becomes typed and simplified for mass consumption. Of course, simplified forms of advice are not, in themselves, new. All the way back since... See more

we need to remember that we produce culture merely by existing in it . The people who are in the photos and dancing to the music are just as important as the people making them; it’s indisputably a symbiotic relationship. And besides, culture also emerges from the everyday. That book club you started with your friends, that’s culture. Seeing the sa... See more

Studios, he said, are not “interested any longer in supporting individual voices that express their personal feelings or their personal thoughts and personal ideas and feelings on a big budget. And what’s happened now is that they’ve pigeonholed it to what they call indies.”