Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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I am willing to take as much time as needed between projects to find my next thing. But I always want it to be a project that, if successful, will make the rest of my career look like a footnote.
blog.samaltman.com • How to Be Successful
If someone hands you the whole thing on a silver platter, they gift you the result, but rob you of the accomplishment.
Remember this not only when chasing your dreams, but also when supporting others. Help along the way, but let them run their own race. Your job is to live life with them, not live their life for them.
Remember this not only when chasing your dreams, but also when supporting others. Help along the way, but let them run their own race. Your job is to live life with them, not live their life for them.
‘Algorithmic’ has become a byword for anything that feels too slick, too reductive, or too optimized for attracting attention: a combination of high production values with little concern for fundamental content.
— Filterworld, pg. 140
If AI chatbots and AI-powered search results are summarizing everything for you, why would you go to a website? And if we all stop going to websites, what’s the incentive to put new content on the web? What’s going to stop shady characters from flooding the web with AI-generated spam to try and game these systems? And if we succeed in choking the w... See more
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
the ouroboros
When I asked Whaley about the competitive advantage or vision for MSCHF, he bristled slightly and would only answer obliquely. “I have to think about MSCHF in a 100-year timeframe,” he told me. “Otherwise we are incentivized to take shortcuts.”
I think I understood what he meant. A century-long vision allows you to build something that mostly ignor... See more
I think I understood what he meant. A century-long vision allows you to build something that mostly ignor... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
We should include the great thinkers of the past in our conversations and let them help us fulfill our purpose of talking about things that matter. We shouldn’t let their names or ideas become a substitution for humble curiosity.
Interactions with brands are becoming just like interactions with other users. This is an example of dark social for brands, and how brands are humanising themselves / reaching out to their fans and establishing brand affinity.
A move from public broadcasting to private sharing
“in this version though, a lot of your story is written by others. You write your autofiction about yourself and others write their fictions about you, often anonymously, on Substacks, subreddits, messageboards like Lolcow, on Twitter and Instagram and podcasts too, and this makes things different from what has come before. The lives of these perso
... See moreNovelist Ernest Hemingway on acting with confidence while living with humility:
"Be humble after but not during the action."
"Be humble after but not during the action."