Agalia Tan

Brand and product designer Frank Chimero noted in a 2018 talk at the Substans Conference in Bergen, Norway, that “if we’re setting out to change the character of technology in our lives, we’d be wise to learn from the character of places.”*

Netflix brought in a chief content officer like Bela Bajaria (with a history in network) because the company wanted more hits to drive subscriptions. Programs like WWE Raw bring in a number of locked in, live viewers that advertisers can choose to target. Critically, as analysts have pointed out over the last few years, Netflix has started to resem... See more

As every child knows, a body must orbit something – so the earth orbits the sun, and the moon orbits the earth. The sun is the earth’s focal point, and the earth is the moon’s focal point. This is quite straightforward – but I have discovered that the more I learn, the more I’m apt to be confused. In fact, there are two focal points inside the orbi

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If you think someone is normal, you don’t know them very well. Normalcy is a fiction. Your job is to discover their weird genius.

Remain playful as your responsibilities increase. It's easy to become serious when people and results depend on you, but nearly everyone's performance improves when they proceed lightly through the world.

Like girls, boys openly express their desire for genuine connections with others, including with boys. They reveal the human capacity for mutual understanding, care, and empathy and demonstrate remarkably astute abilities to read the human world. Yet as they reach middle to late adolescence and as expectations of manhood intensify, they begin to ex... See more

That is the predicate of the slender, poetic 1993 novel  Einstein's Dreams by physicist Alan Lightman — a book about time and the tricks we play on ourselves to bear our transience, a book that does for time what Alain de Botton’s  The Course of Love does for love: punctuating a fictional world with philosophical quickenings, th... See more