Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
musingsandmore.substack.com
- On TikTok or Instagram, you don’t truly control your relationship with the people who care about your work: the platforms do. They can take away those audiences at any time, or change something in the algorithm that prevents you from reaching them, or put things in front of them that you would never want them to see. Those places are great for find... See more
- There is so much I loved in those archives. There is so much I would delight in rediscovering. But I can’t find what matters in the morass. I’ve given up on trying.
from archive.ph
failings of the modern internet
why less is more, and why sublime :)
- the thing is, as an adult, you get to make your own cool. you get to choose your own friends, live your own life. and let me tell you, in my life, where i make the rules, i am the coolest cat around.
being passionate about your hobbies is cool. asking good questions is cool. reading books is cool. taking notes is cool.
thinking of projects and then d... See morefrom “cool” - Tasshin
what "living life to the fullest" looks like
be a league of your own!
- A primary reinforcer is something we’re born to desire. A conditioned reinforcer is something we learn to desire, due to its association with a primary reinforcer.
from Why Everything is Becoming a Game
we are shaped by our tools, systems, and environment
the world has been gamified
- “Grunt work” can be central to building community, but only if you do it yourself.
from archive.ph
- The more people who buy a product, the further the product’s message spreads, the more money the company makes, the more they can invest in their projects. It's a virtuous cycle of creation and consumption. By making scale—the number of people who use or see the creation—an explicit part of the art’s statement, they naturally marry the business’s g... See more
from The Art Of by Evan Armstrong
making scale the process not the work
- You have to do the work. To use a crypto analogy, you have to have proof of work. If you have that and you truly have something interesting, then you shouldn’t hesitate to put it together in an email and send it. Even then, when asking for a meeting, you want to be actionable.
from Be Too Busy to ‘Do Coffee’ by Naval Ravikant
why does this make me a little scared? like i’m desperately hoarding everything that i’ve done within gmail for the last 13 years — as though I’m able to remember everything that was done and believe that there is value in keeping them.
It’s the same thing with my whatsapp message where I keep everything from 8 years ago for that one time i’d choose to scroll back and see my younger self making a fool of herself :”)
What is it with digital artefacts that make it so difficult to let go? Is it because of the fact that it’s there?
- A publication isn't content. A publication is the exploration
of an idea.