Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
musingsandmore.substack.com
- By pausing, opening an app or a notebook or pulling my sleeve up to write an idea on my arm (something I do a lot), and committing that idea to memory - that act itself breathes life into not just the idea but into my conception of self as an artist, a writer, a person who takes his own ideas seriously.
Writing things makes them real. The stuff of s... See more - The app also has a serendipity slider from “Only show my selected interests” to “Show me everything.”
from Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress
- most social networks suffer from the weight of objectives
from Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress
- In most areas of computing, programmers write code or train an AI model to achieve specific objectives, such as driving a car without crashing or generating humanlike text. Stanley creates systems that instead evolve, seeking novelty for its own sake. These systems sometimes discover stepping stones toward solutions that couldn’t be achieved via a ... See more
from Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress
“Later that same week, I chatted about this in a coaching session with Kristine Claghorn. I asked her, “Now that I am wiser and I know what happens when I burn out, how do I find joy in my work again?” And she asked me a question that changed my perspective instantly: “What would happen if you took the pressure off? What would work feel like then?”
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example of a brutalist brand
“I would argue what unlocks celebrity is a certain collapsed distance. It’s inhabiting a fantasy of intimacy and proximity. All forms of technology collapse that distance.”
[SHUMON BASAR_NEW MODELS PODCAST]
Hype became a dirty word, and longevity increasingly feels like a myth.
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Virality got conflated with relevance, while relevance comes with the curse of becoming imminently passé. Whist new gen brands like Corteiz are propped up by persistent presence, institutions such as Apple resist exploring their own hype, choosing omnipresence instead.
This beg“Chaos is a different word for risk. Tension and complexity are the differences between safe art and art that's willing to push boundaries and make people nervous or, better yet, question the status quo”
[KAREN WONG_CREATIVE CONSULTANT]
— Age of Relevance