Agalia Tan

"Your biological age is the number of days you've lived.

Your psychological age is the number of thoughts you've entertained.

Your sociological age is the number of contributions you've made."

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Joseph Campbell’s words ring so true here: “If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”

On growing Daylight

It's a fascinating dual world. One half is the way you grow the tribe, recruit people, get investors on board, customers, folks, etc. by speaking to the world you want to build and sharing what you’re trying to do. We're not a technology company. We're not a blank company. I think it's just a core set of principles and beliefs

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"The end of a melody is not its goal."

Too many businesses don’t really understand that the core of their business is making people feel good. Whether it’s walking into a store or a restaurant, or being on an airplane, most people go through life hoping that good things will happen to them, and they return to businesses that make those things happen.

Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at.

As a strategist, if you want rare insight, you need to have access to rare perspectives and those come from people, not publications or posts on social media.