Agalia Tan

@agaaalia

Senior Strategist at We Are Social

RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore

musingsandmore.substack.com

"Whether you are an adult or child, your first attempts will often seem unimportant or foolish.

The open mic night at a nearly empty bar.

The early blog posts that get ignored.

The dance recital on a little stage.

Early attempts are easy to dismiss because they don't seem to amount to much. But you have to do the low stakes stuff to prepare for the

from 3-2-1: When to be patient, why we procrastinate, and the importance of early attempts

reminders to trust the process and for makers

Remember how sabrina carpenter was preparing for her moment :”)

The highest form of leverage is reputation.

from Brain Food: Necessary Virtues

things you should remember

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest

from Brain Food: Necessary Virtues

being a better human being

courage — one of the most fundamental virtues to have

Consider the difference between Trader Joe’s (a beloved grocery store with a wide variety of goods, all of which you can trust) and whatever new CPG goods are popular on TikTok. Hype is a flash in the pan. Narrative network effects are durable, long-lasting, and broadly applicable.

from The Art Of by Evan Armstrong

seeds

narrative network effects — how else can that be applied? personal branding?

Resonance is radically non-instrumental, Rosa stresses, so it cannot be used to maximize an outcome. It has no goal. Unlike harmony, it allows space for dissonance. In fact, resonance requires a certain friction. Paradoxically, when two people entirely agree on a point, when their experiences are fully congruent, or when an idea doesn’t encounter a... See more

from 🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You

for makers and when creating vector, i thought of...

In fact, one of the things that will not survive is novelty itself: trends, fads, fashions, scenes, vibes. We are thrown back into cyclical time; what’s growing old is the cruel demand to make things new.

from The internet is already over by Sam Kriss

virality is so last season

We are familiar with A.I. helpers, like Apple’s Siri, which are modeled after feminine stereotypes, but here it feels as if the opposite is happening: A mother has been recast as a robotic being, her work dismissed as rote and easily outsourced.

from archive.ph

when AI amplifies existing biases and the impact of AI

As someone who has decades of experience on the web, I hate to compare myself to the tortoise, but hey, if it fits, it fits. Let’s be more like that tortoise: diligent, direct, and purposeful. The web needs pockets of slowness and thoughtfulness as its reach and power continues to increase. What we depend upon must be properly built and intelligent... See more

from Everything Easy is Hard Again by Frank Chimero

going the long hard stupid way is the best way

Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.

Same direction. Completely different energy

from 3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love

on working