Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Look at nature itself. Trees don't apologise for shedding their leaves. Bears don't feel guilty about hibernating. The moon doesn't try to stay full all month. Yet we've convinced ourselves that constant output, constant consumption, constant "productivity" is the only way forward.
It’s madness.
It’s madness.
The Noetic Spiral
"The world is moved by highly motivated people, by enthusiasts, by men and women who want something very much or believe very much.
I’m not talking about anything as narrow as ambition. After all, ambition eventually wears out and probably should. But you can keep your zest until the day you die. If I may offer you a simple maxim, “Be interestin... See more
the psychology behind likes — we are restricted by the platforms only with likes, but likes don’t mean the same thing. It could be liking because of humour, because of relatability, because of outrage, because of allegiance, or simply an acknowledgement that you have liked it.
paraphrasing from filterworld, pg 135
Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can’t write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you write the first draft, don’t let the judgy editor get near. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgment.
Kevin Kelly • Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist
Quite a lot of people enjoy their commute time. And there’s good behavioral evidence for this because economists have noticed that people live a bit further from work than they optimally should in order to create a chronological buffer between where they work and where they live. We like that decompression time.
Rory Sutherland • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
double doorways? transitions and ramps to help ease off whatever previous feelings
The seeds of intimacy are time and repetition. We choose each other again and again, and so create a community of two.
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity
love and dating and P.S
Banker and archaeologist John Lubbock on the value of downtime:
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
3-2-1: On the surprising path to success, the value of downtime, and how parenting changes you
But the repetitive, difficult nature of leaning into commodity production can give us insight, humility and skill. It helps us understand just how hard the hard parts are, and creates an opportunity to bring innovation to the work to be done.
Learning the skill and caring enough to show up to implement it, again and again, can give us the foundation... See more
Learning the skill and caring enough to show up to implement it, again and again, can give us the foundation... See more
Seth's Blog : In defense of the hard parts
As with the Mechanical Turk, the human persists within the machine
— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka