Agalia Tan

What is risky work? And what if we tend to fundamentally mistake what is or is not risky? What if the formulaic, expected, small c-conservative work is, in fact, the riskiest? What if fitting in with what’s expected and copying what everyone else is doing, far from de-risking, actually adds risk?

2. Focus on having a good time. The “conversion” shouldn’t be a match, it should be having a fun night out.

🌀 People are quietly quitting Instagram (👋 fellow lurkers)

🌀 They're adding friction to break the scroll (deleting apps, muting notifications)

🌀 They're building slower, smaller spaces (on Discord, WhatsApp… and most importantly around 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 tables again)

🌀 They're designing moments to experience, not to optimise for content

It’s not anti-digit... See more

The highest form of leverage is reputation.

Our moment is a war of competing myths.

The future belongs to those who write it — as always — for better or worse.

And if I’m honest in the work, maybe I could be honest as a person. Maybe.

over time, hopeful silence has corrosive effects. If you don’t name the real problems in your life, you eventually become alienated from your inner compass. You stop paying attention to your life on an experiential level, because you want to live in a pretend world of self-consolation. You lose the ability to see your life honestly.

Sometimes, I not... See more