Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Over-processing the work is too real a problem in a world of bloated middle management.
“I would have done this differently, but how you did it works too” is a sentiment not heard nearly enough.
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plenty of fun metaphors for this one…
there’s a reason a car only has one steering wheel.
There are many ways to get somewhere. the most incorrect option is a... See more
“I would have done this differently, but how you did it works too” is a sentiment not heard nearly enough.
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plenty of fun metaphors for this one…
there’s a reason a car only has one steering wheel.
There are many ways to get somewhere. the most incorrect option is a... See more
There’s a difference between success that’s just an endless pursuit and success that actually enhances your life and that you allow yourself to appreciate and enjoy
Rolf Potts • Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul: Rolf Potts — How to Find Soulful Success and The Dance Between Creativity and Business
How can we reclaim data as a tool for clarity instead of submitting to its chaos?... See more
Just because we can measure everything doesn't mean we should. Digital media gave way to instant metrics which led to instant expectations on results but a CTR, a bounce rate, or even a conversion doesn’t always tell the whole story. The obsession with short-term, ea
Strands of Genius: AI Eating Its Own Homework = Model Collapse = Blurry Grey Future, Creativity Is Waiting to Erup…
... See moreThe time you spend is not your own.
You are, as a class of human beings, responsible for more pure raw time, broken into more units, than almost anyone else. You spent two years learning, focusing, exploring, but that was your time; now you are about to spend whole decades, whole centuries, of cumulative moments, of other people’s time. People usin
Ad legend Bill Bernbach letter on creativity, written in 1947:
Dear ________:
Our agency is getting big. That’s something to be happy about. But it’s something to worry about, too, and I don’t mind telling you I’m damned worried. I’m worried that we’re going to fall into the trap of bigness, that we’re going to worship techniques instead of substance
... See moreApplying universal logic gives our experiences a certain weight and our lives a certain order. I assume this is why we’re so drawn to recasting our life stories into tidy narratives and lessons to be shared with others. But in doing this we risk underestimating chaos, nuance, idiosyncrasy, and the occasional dose of self-delusion.
Haley Nahman • #155: How to be delusional
moneyball and when creating vector, i thought of...
themes of rigidity and how we should embrace CHAOS
When reviewing the data — as always, we should ask, “What are its biases?” This spawns questions: Does a platform and algorithm drive preference, or does preference drive the algorithm? Further, are creators making what they want, or what the platform rewards? And even further, do some clicks matter more in this creation-consumption flywheel?