Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
musingsandmore.substack.com
- What they thought was a priority and what I thought was a priority diverged.
from archive.ph
All success is a lagging indicator. When a day’s writing goes well, it’s a lagging indicator of hours and hours spent researching and thinking… Hitting a personal record on the bench press is a lagging indicator of a lot of discipline and hard work. Receiving a promotion is a lagging indicator of a lot of quality work. Delivering a keynote with con
... See more- What if you gave yourself the gift of inner acceptance? What would it open up for you?
from What if you gave yourself the gift of inner acceptance?
- It would be uncomfortable to remove me entirely from the workflow. I might feel lazy, guilty, even nervous about it. Did the bot book the right flight? Does it know I prefer morning flights, hate red eyes, and am a loyal Delta SkyMiles member? A better path would be the chatbot saying, “Sure Rex, here are three options for you to choose from.” I fe... See more
from The "Egg Theory" of AI Agents
- “It’s frustrating feeling like you are always waiting for someone to say yes”
from strat*scraps_v152
relatable on many levels
- The self is not something you can set out looking for; it reveals itself gradually through the choices you make.
We must cease to concern ourselves with our unique suffering – whether we are happy or sad, fortunate or unfortunate, good or bad – and give up our neurotic and debilitating journeys of self-discovery. Art of true value requires, like a j
... See morefrom Two Kinds of Introspection - By Henrik Karlsson by Henrik Karlsson
the other side of feedback culture and things you should remember
so many automated feeds dictated by corporations more so than users, gradually forming a more passive relationship between users and the content feed
— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka
- Best practices are rarely the best — they're mostly just cargo cult common practices.
And as more people adopt them, the more mediocre they become.
The best is usually what most people aren't willing to do.from Tweet by Jason Fried
- the way we sell ideas in the first place. Concepts are much harder to make fun than executions. They also are most open to interpretation, turning future rounds of review into wrestling matches between difference in expectation.
We spend so much time thinking about the big idea, the joy of the output suffers.from ESTRATIJIRONES vol 156.
the perils of overplanning