Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
musingsandmore.substack.com
Are the people this place attracts the sort of people I want to spend time with and become more like? Is the system that is in place here one that pushes and cajoles and processes people to become more like the kind of person I’d like to be?
- If you understand the true motivations and fears of every stakeholder/team member, you can begin to understand where things may start to come apart.
Hint: the incentive is never “the work” and the biggest fear is always about the person, not the org. Tom Goodwin on LinkedIn: If all we'd ever known was ChatGPT and someone invented Google Search, it… | 63 comments
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
so tired of headline names. and before i hear “but that’s what gets people to click”, i don’t care. be authentic, be passionate, if you are just doing it for clicks, then i probably don’t want to read it anyway. /rant
“10 things…” sigh.
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“5 things…” enough with the lists.
“82,327 things…” ridiculous.
“x that will blow your mind…” rarely.
“tried x and it’- “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
from The Art Of by Evan Armstrong
- By analyzing the content of art rather than merely experiencing it, we “set up a shadow world of ‘meanings’”—everything necessarily pointing at something else. In order to liberate ourselves from this diminishing way of seeing, she suggests valuing transparence instead. “Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of th... See more
from #180: Against Self-Analysis
the over-intellectualisation and overthinking of the self
don’t think, feel!
“not that they should buy it, but merely that they should admire it”
- By leading us off the easy path—the one that leads to the garbage can and the mailbox—we can enable new activities.
from On shortcuts and longcuts
- You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well.
from The Need to Read