Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Curiosity is a better compass than cynicism—it shifts from defending your territory to exploring what's possible (this reframe — from Holly Herndon, was a big unlock for me).
Imagine starting every project with the clay of humanity's accumulated knowledge at your fingertips, waiting for you to mold it to your liking?
AI is powerful but taste-blind. I... See more
Imagine starting every project with the clay of humanity's accumulated knowledge at your fingertips, waiting for you to mold it to your liking?
AI is powerful but taste-blind. I... See more
What matters in the age of AI is taste
now 2025
Be ruthless about what you ignore.
Prioritizing pure feeling, so the idea goes, leads to people choosing bad, unsuitable partners, to acts of desperation and violence, to shirking your duties. That love can also be an incredibly redemptive force meshes uneasily with our sense of individualism, with our Protestant ethics. Controlling it requires an entire normative framework.
love and dating and P.S
The New Stack of Entertainment, Tensions of the AI Age, & Navigating Cambrian Explosions
Scott Belskyimplications.com
The heroine’s journey is SO relatable
I think of experience design as the creation of containers. Spacial, emotional, temporal, behavioral. And for containers to exist, they must have edges. Thresholds between what is, and what is not, the experience.
Spacial: Think the doors between rooms. The fences that enclose these gardens where we play. The changes in environment that signal we ar... See more
Spacial: Think the doors between rooms. The fences that enclose these gardens where we play. The changes in environment that signal we ar... See more
Some lessons I have taken away so far:
8 hours of sleep
always be in the present, focus because trying to catch up later is going to be even more difficult and tiresome
you can’t take care of others unless you take care of yourself
rituals are VERY understated — people may not understand and it could possibly come off as selfish but you need that r
Some starting points for other people to learn from? Adjacent industries (education, film / tv, and publishing all have interesting lessons to teach), the OGs (retired / legendary ad people love to write books about the good old days and the first principles hold up nicely), and academics (imagine a ‘grown up’ version of our world, but with infinit... See more