Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Two simple rules:
- You get better at what you practice.
- Everything is practice.
3-2-1: On acting with confidence, the different types of age, and the importance of momentum
Investor and businessman Charlie Munger on the importance of finding what fascinates you:
"In my whole life I've never been good at something I wasn't very interested in. It just doesn't work. There's no substitute for strong interest."
"In my whole life I've never been good at something I wasn't very interested in. It just doesn't work. There's no substitute for strong interest."
3-2-1: On making a comeback, revising your habits, and how to work smart
Absorb or create a critical vocabulary
If you don’t have any vocabulary for a medium, then the film or song or dish simply appears as a blur of impressions, it’s hard to draw lines and isolate the particular areas and causes of enjoyment. So, having a better vocabulary for a given medium doesn’t just make you sound smart, it increases the resolutio... See more
If you don’t have any vocabulary for a medium, then the film or song or dish simply appears as a blur of impressions, it’s hard to draw lines and isolate the particular areas and causes of enjoyment. So, having a better vocabulary for a given medium doesn’t just make you sound smart, it increases the resolutio... See more
Sasha Chapin • How to Like Everything More
the “elsewhere” of messages, news cycles, TikToks, and so on
Lia Purpura • The Ecology of Attention
ather than create clocks that produce uniformity and ensnare us in regularity, why not create clocks that suit your pattern of being, whose minutes follow the length of your breath, or match your circadian rhythms?
“can we not set a timer anymore?”
time with you feels like _______
when creating vector, i thought of...
Creating is an indulgence in itself, and I feel immense privilege that I can create
AI image generation is essentially a truncated exercise in taste; a product of knowing which inputs and keywords to feed the image-mashup machine, and the eye to identify which outputs contain any semblance of artistry. All that is to say: AI itself can’t generate good taste for you.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
"Three qualities that have nothing to do with talent or intelligence, but can make a dramatic impact on your results:
- Cheerful. You are pleasant to work with and generally raise the level of energy in the room.
- Accountable. You feel personally responsible for what you want to accomplish. It is not someone else's job. It's your job.
- Adaptable. You c