Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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🌀 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
🌀 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
David Crystal: the glamour of grammar
facebook.comWhere does grammar begin and end? You got to know where you want to go, and why you want to go there.
It’s not just about analysing sentences, it’s about communicatively understanding why the sentences are being used — from a semantic perspective, it’s about what the sentences mean, and from a pragmatic perspective, what’s the effect of using these sentences on other people. That’s when grammar goes out in the real world.
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dating these days - 2024 collection
are we one date away from our own 4B movement :_(
Our uniquely human advantage isn't in processing more, faster - machines will always outpace us there. Our strength lies in something far more foundational: our capacity to move in cycles, to integrate deeply, to mine the creative wisdom that emerges from stillness. While AI races to compress time, we can expand into it. True innovation comes not f... See more
Zoe Scaman • The Noetic Spiral
People read nonfiction to learn and to feel. My framework for ensuring a blog post accomplishes both is to start with a first draft that focuses on "novel" ideas.
A novel idea is one that's not just new to the reader, but also significant and not easily intuited. Think of it as new and worthwhile . I've identified five categories:
A novel idea is one that's not just new to the reader, but also significant and not easily intuited. Think of it as new and worthwhile . I've identified five categories:
- Counter-intuitive —
What to Write About
After a while, there is a certain tedium to TikTok. The feast becomes overwhelming. Our taste buds dull. Our eyes dry. TikTok understands that once you start scrolling, it is so very hard to stop.
The New Pornographers — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Inexperienced writers tend to seek the recipes for writing well. You buy the cookbook, you take the list of ingredients, you follow the directions, and behold! A masterpiece! The Never-Falling Soufflé!... See more
Wouldn’t it be nice? But alas, there are no recipes. We have no Julia Child. Successful professional writers are not withholding mysterious secrets f
Maria Popova • Ursula K. Le Guin on How You Make Something Good in Creative Work
When reviewing the data — as always, we should ask, “What are its biases?” This spawns questions: Does a platform and algorithm drive preference, or does preference drive the algorithm? Further, are creators making what they want, or what the platform rewards? And even further, do some clicks matter more in this creation-consumption flywheel?