Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
musingsandmore.substack.com
- How can I overlap the things I enjoy?
For example, maybe you want to exercise and spend time with your spouse. What type of exercise sounds fun to do with your spouse?
Or perhaps you'd like to hang out with friends and build your career. How can you find ways to work with people you like being around?
It doesn't always work, but there are usually a... See morefrom 3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love
A toll gets you to somewhere you want to go to. A tax sucks you dry. Be okay with tolls in your life, they make you better. Taxes on the other hand are a part of life and of course should be paid, but you don't want to live a life with only taxes, no tolls. You want mostly tolls, some taxes.
- Greg Isenberg- Every “overnight success” is the result of years of thankless work. Success comes not from great acts of genius but from doing lots of small things consistently
from 23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
reminders to trust the process and things you should remember
- Studios, he said, are not “interested any longer in supporting individual voices that express their personal feelings or their personal thoughts and personal ideas and feelings on a big budget. And what’s happened now is that they’ve pigeonholed it to what they call indies.”
from Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work
— Gustave Flaubert- while having a romantic partner is not a necessity for everyone, having a community is. “I truly believe that hyper-individualism, which is deeply rooted in capitalism, does so much work to trick us into believing that we should feel like we can do everything in life on our own,” maya says, adding that being in a relationship has made them so much ... See more
from Unpacking our generational fear of codependency by i-D
we are coming to realise that love isn’t just about romantic love. It’s also platonic love! we need to nurture other relationships
- If only people could write like they talk, they’d be better writers.
- Create a "failure resume". Document your mistakes and what you learned from them. This helps normalize failure and turn it into a powerful tool for growth. You'll read it and be reminded
from How to win in your 20s
“Popular books such as What You Do Is Who You Are (2019) by the venture capitalist Ben Horowitz carry the implication that being and doing are synonymous. Busyness is a badge of honour, even a sign of moral superiority. Rest, in contrast, is often treated as if it’s passive and pointless. Indeed, I’ve noticed many people hardly think of rest as its
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