Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Software engineer Kent Beck on why creators struggle to release projects (and why people in general don't take action):
"By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback."
"By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback."
3-2-1: When to be patient, why we procrastinate, and the importance of early attempts
Everybody should be thinking of their brand as a character. It loosens what you can do and are allowed to do. Our competition is not other brands in the category, we don't give a shit about what others in the category are doing. The competition is the other things that are in your feed; that really funny comedian, that meme account, your best frien... See more
Zoe Scaman • Zoe Scaman on LinkedIn: Is the way we practice brand strategy today fundamentally irrelevant and… | 97 comments
Quantity and atomization build YouTube’s business; power laws are important to the creators, but replicable quantity is the platform’s beating heart. This is not true for a streamer where hits are the beating heart, and where power laws impact the company’s bottom line, not just the creatives whose shows and films appear.
Podcasters are islands in ... See more
Podcasters are islands in ... See more
Netflix’s Potential Podcast Fallacy
The more precise and niche the words I input, the better the internet would match me with people I could forge meaningful relationships with. This precision was hard for me, partly because my sense for how communication is supposed to work is shaped by reading mass media. Writing for a general public, you need to be broad and a bit bland. I didn’t ... See more
A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox
“The reaction from the film industry has been curiosity and excitement, but also confusion,” he said. “Everyone wants me to make a director’s cut. I could make a really good one, but that would be sort of antithetical to the whole exercise, for me to exert that level of control.”
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As the LLM market structure stabilizes, the next frontier is now emerging. The focus is shifting to the development and scaling of the reasoning layer, where “System 2” thinking takes precedence. Inspired by models like AlphaGo, this layer aims to endow AI systems with deliberate reasoning, problem-solving and cognitive operations at inference time... See more
Sonya Huang • Generative AI’s Act O1
It’s about how it’s critical to have people in your life who love you and see you when you’re fun and sparkly and on top of the world, but also love you when you’re stagnant and petulant and self-sabotaging and letting them down. It’s about how that kind of love makes you believe in other kinds of love. It’s about how the essential texture of life ... See more
The Friendship Theory of Everything
Ad legend Bill Bernbach letter on creativity, written in 1947:
Dear ________:
Our agency is getting big. That’s something to be happy about. But it’s something to worry about, too, and I don’t mind telling you I’m damned worried. I’m worried that we’re going to fall into the trap of bigness, that we’re going to worship techniques instead of substance
... See more“The stronger identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction."
— Kyle Chayka, Filterworld