Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
musingsandmore.substack.com
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possib
from Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling by Maria Popova
- The basis for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions,” writes Erich Fromm in The Art of Being. He refers often to awakeness, to making conscious what is repressed. To not just hearing, but listening. Not just seeing, but looking, watching. You can do this anywhere, with anything.... See more
seeds and
- So how can we get people to accept a new idea? Show how it is a natural extension of the things they already believe.
from How Ideas Grow
- A charismatic brand includes a dedication to aesthetics. Why? Because it’s the language of feeling, and in a society that’s information-rich and time-poor, people value feeling more than information.
from The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design by Marty Neumier
- A good editor is someone who uses deliberate subtraction to actually add life to the ideas, setting, plot, and characters
from #084 ✰ are you an essentialist?
- We're all technological beings now; it's ingrained into the way we operate. It's almost an extension of our body. And we already know how we want to shape that technology. We just need to be better supported to do so.
from An Interview with Spencer Chang | Are.na Editorial
towards a human-centred internet
mcluhan-coded!
- The short of it is that when we think about information diets we might fixate on the quantity of information but ignore the quality and the processing of it. That’s like only looking at calories to determine if a diet is healthy. We need to have a higher-fidelity picture of the information we consume – our entire perception of reality relies upon i... See more
from Information Nutrition
- The basis for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions, ” writes Erich Fromm in The Art of Being. He refers often to awakeness, to making conscious what is repressed. To not just hearing, but listening. Not just seeing, but looking, watching. You can do this anywhere, with anything.... See more
(self-) awareness is the first step
The way to greater confidence is not to reassure ourselves of our own dignity; it’s to come to peace with our inevitable ridiculousness
— Alain de Botton in ‘On Confidence’