Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.
As with the Mechanical Turk, the human persists within the machine
— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moresimplicity is the ultimate sophistication
Slowly is the fastest way to get where you want to be
Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of b
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Success is not a public thing. It’s a private thing. It’s when you have fewer and fewer regrets
The same systems that empower us also subject us
What are you optimising for?