Agalia Tan

@agaaalia

Senior Strategist at We Are Social

RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore

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"When you're on the field, play as if nothing else matters.

When you're off the field, remember that the game doesn't matter at all."

3-2-1: On living with lightness, the root cause of sin, and how to compete without losing yourself

“The seat in front of you will likely recline. Prepare accordingly”

STRAT_SCRAPS volume one hundred and fifty three

things you should remember

At T-minus seven minutes to the meeting, I rushed my laptop up a flight of stairs to the desk of a secretary and huffed out a desperate plea: Please print this for me, seven copies. She looked up at what surely was a normal speed, but which I perceived as the pace of a snail emerging from a shell, and said,

“Just give me a second, dear.” She smiled.

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I Felt Important

things you should remember

it’s always a matter of perspective, and unless you’re saving lives, nothing is that urgent

Our strength should not be measured by our ability to push away our tech, but by our ability to hold and live with tech in peace

Unplugging Is Not The Solution You Want

we have agency! and seeds

t you can shape yourself by reshaping your relationships. By changing who you are addressing, and the responses you garner, you steer your development. You become more agentic.

A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox

half past and

“Everyone bifurcates the world into content and distribution,” Whaley told me. He has brown hair, is of average height, and was wearing a nondescript gray t-shirt and jeans when we talked. “From the beginning, we viewed those as the same thing. Each object gets better with more participation, and so does MSCHF. Scale is not the goal. Scale is a too... See more

Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste

for makers

Do the dichotomies of reason vs. feeling, objectivity vs. subjectivity, man vs. machine, and physics vs. metaphysics still make sense?

MK: This is the computer-thinking speaking. These are binaries . 0’s and 1’s are for computers, and arguably should only be for computers.

I thoroughly believe, alongside thinkers like Douglas Rushkoff, that we must ... See more

Matt Klein • Making Sense of Culture Amidst Contradiction

machines are trying to be more human, but are we?

Related, are our searches and consumption driven by preferences or inquisitiveness?

new rules of media and algorithmic anxiety

would this change when AI becomes search?

If I look at things that have turned out well in my life (my marriage, some of my essays, my current career) the “design process” has been the same in each case. It has been what Christopher Alexander called an unfolding .1 Put simply:

I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people

Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process

things you should remember and reminders to trust the process

i LOVE this concept of ‘unfolding’