Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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4 types of luck
Chance I is completely impersonal; you can’t influence it.
Chance II favors those who have a persistent curiosity about many things coupled with an energetic willingness to experiment and explore
Chance III favors those who have a sufficient background of sound knowledge plus special abilities in observing, remembering, recalling, and quickly forming significant new associations.
Chance IV favors those with distinctive, if not eccentric hobbies, personal lifestyles, and motor behaviors.
"Two years, not two months.
The visible progress you're hoping for usually comes slower than you'd like. Even with consistent effort it can take a long time before progress feels significant. It might be a year of writing and editing before the book really starts to come together. You may need two years of recovery from a major injury before you no... See more
The visible progress you're hoping for usually comes slower than you'd like. Even with consistent effort it can take a long time before progress feels significant. It might be a year of writing and editing before the book really starts to come together. You may need two years of recovery from a major injury before you no... See more
3-2-1: On the source of inspiration, the bond between love and grief, and the power of hope
the case against wearables that perpetually track metrics?
There’s that Oscar Wilde quote: “Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.”
Power in all its sundry shades of that which we want but cannot be sure that we have: status, respect, desire.
Maybe that’s what I really want when I’m writing?
Writing stuff in the 21st century (that’s this one) means writing online, and writing ... See more
Power in all its sundry shades of that which we want but cannot be sure that we have: status, respect, desire.
Maybe that’s what I really want when I’m writing?
Writing stuff in the 21st century (that’s this one) means writing online, and writing ... See more
All Day I Dream About Substack (ADIDAS)
Not only do we tend to rewrite our memories according to the narratives we believe in at the moment, we are also easily influenced by word choices e.g. using the phrase ‘a car that zoomed past’ versus ‘a car that drove past’ can cause us to believe different things.
Memory is less so a recording or a catalogue, but more like vapour.
A BIRD BALLET
youtube.comIf you serve as a mechanical slave to mass media and online algorithms, you’ll end up with intellectual diabetes. To find quality information, you have to rebel against the incentives of mass media and the algorithms that threaten its business model.Make no mistake. For the conscious news consumer, there has never been a better time to be alive. Th... See more
David Perell • The Paradox of Abundance - David Perell
