Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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We don’t want to be mere consumers. We want to be associated with game-changing moments, places and people. [Merch] gives us a new form of wealth, not by association, but by association. The more we get to associate ourselves with knowledge and creativity and cultural activity, the greater is our social distinction and higher our cultural status.”
Is It Time We Broke Up With Merch?
Merch as Bourdieu’s cultural capital next signifier
The main point of concern here is not that an LLM such as GPT-4 is reductionist in its representation of reality per se; it is that various AI models, each reductionist in their own way, are converging. An echo chamber of echo chambers of echo chambers.
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
brutalist brands
“The shortest distance between two people is a story.” ― Patti Digh
Novelist Toni Morrison on invention:
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. The same is true of any endeavor: if the solution you seek doesn't exist, create it."
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. The same is true of any endeavor: if the solution you seek doesn't exist, create it."
3-2-1: Four questions for life, how to learn like a child, and seeing things in a generous way
As marketer and author Rory Sutherland puts it, many of the problems we face today are open ended. Yet we aren’t actually looking to solve these problems.
Instead, we’re looking to win arguments . Or as I put it, we’re looking to maintain our employer’s health insurance. Don’t rock the boat.
Instead, we’re looking to win arguments . Or as I put it, we’re looking to maintain our employer’s health insurance. Don’t rock the boat.
Matt Klein • Self-Sabotaging Innovation: The Art of Doing Dumb Shit
“As with the rise of reality TV in the 2010s, personal disclosure became parasocial currency.”
Elizabeth Goodspeed • Elizabeth Goodspeed on the rise of the designer as influencer
we are always performing and the future of brands
public brand intersects with personal brand
The world is getting larger because I can now look everywhere when I want
to find something (or someone). That means that the amount of variety is
staggering, and it means I can define my world to be exactly what I have an
interest in—and find my preferences anywhere on the planet.
At the same time, the world is getting smaller because the categories a
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