Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Putting ideas into words is a severe test. The first words you choose are usually wrong; you have to rewrite sentences over and over to get them exactly right. And your ideas won't just be imprecise, but incomplete too. Half the ideas that end up in an essay will be ones you thought of while you were writing it. Indeed, that's why I write them.
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youtube.comEmbrace these powerful tools by all means, but do so with intention and clarity. Augment, but don't offload. Because efficiency without engagement isn't progress – it's a fast track to professional atrophy.
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McNamara Fallacy: A belief that rational decisions can be made with quantitative measures alone, when in fact the things you can’t measure are often the most consequential. Named after Defense Secretary McNamara, who tried to quantify every aspect of the Vietnam War.
Stratscraps v167.
people living in post-Internet society may no longer have an unconscious
— Byung-Chul Han
“Knowledge itself is power,” Francis Vacon wrote in the sixteenth century, but in the Internet era, sorting knowledge might be even more powerful. Information is now easy to find in abundance; making sense of it, knowing which information is useful, is much harder.
— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka
People don’t only learn to cook so they can become chefs. Some do! But many more people learn to cook so they can eat better, or more affordably. Because they want to carry on a tradition. Sometimes they learn because they’re bored! Or even because they enjoy spending time with the person who’s teaching them.
The list of reasons to “learn to cook” o... See more
The list of reasons to “learn to cook” o... See more
Robin Sloan • An app can be a home-cooked meal
this can be extended to other parts of life — the motivation might not be the most obvious one