Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
A life full of distractions is, at an individual level, diminished. When you are unable to pay sustained attention, you can't achieve the things you want to achieve
— Stolen Focus, Johann Hari
what "living life to the fullest" looks like and things you should remember
"We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side."
— Charlie Munger
Companies are built to be predictable and stable. That's a bad thing in today's world.
The way to greater confidence is not to reassure ourselves of our own dignity; it’s to come to peace with our inevitable ridiculousness
— Alain de Botton in ‘On Confidence’
the real success goes to those who obsess
what's after cannes if it's not it anymore?
an alternative
I use my iPhone nearly every hour that I am conscious, every day, but the new announcements left me craving a dumbphone, since those machines, at least, cannot attempt to think for me
— Apple is bringing AI to your personal life, like it or not
The most invisible form of wasted time is doing a good job on an unimportant task.
Will it be that we define ourselves more by the tools we don't use, or the moments we don't use them?