Agalia Tan

The question behind it was “how can anyone, whether they’re technical or not, create or cultivate their own database?” When I started doing independent research last year, that was one of the main questions that was swirling. It’s fundamental to a lot of the other explorations that I'm doing now, looking at how alternative forms of technology might... See more

If AI chatbots and AI-powered search results are summarizing everything for you, why would you go to a website? And if we all stop going to websites, what’s the incentive to put new content on the web? What’s going to stop shady characters from flooding the web with AI-generated spam to try and game these systems? And if we succeed in choking the w... See more

"Finding your way in life is like unlocking the combination of a safe. You have to go forwards and backwards. Life is not a direct march from A to B. The twists and turns are progress, not regression. What feels like a setback in the moment is later revealed to have been part of the path all along. Each move was necessary to get to your end goal."

The paradox of human sexuality and social politics, and the tension between public performance vs. private desire is worthy of significantly more of our attention. I don’t say this lightly. Public condemnation often masks private fascination.

This data doesn’t just reveal our hypocrisy, but the intricate ways desire, itself, navigates social stigma.

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I am seeing in real time people who have no idea how to pull their feelings out of them...and to have a tool help them connect these hard-to-see dots in their life and perhaps even make sense of some of their madness.