Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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A good brief increases the quality and reduces the quantity of conversation
We need to treat alignment not as a prerequisite, but as a process. “Getting it” isn’t a static quality—it’s a product of access, timing, exposure, and experience.
One method is to design for shared sensemaking. That might mean narrating your mental model instead of assuming it’s obvious. It might mean making space for dissent even when time feels t... See more
One method is to design for shared sensemaking. That might mean narrating your mental model instead of assuming it’s obvious. It might mean making space for dissent even when time feels t... See more
Article
the real success goes to those who obsess
It’s the same logic that powers Erewhon, or Soho House, or influencer-run startups. You’re not paying for the thing. You’re paying for the removal of difficulty . The filtered lighting. The social cachet. The sense that this world still makes sense!
kyla scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
The advent of Filterworld has seen a breakdown in monoculture… culture is meant to be communal and requires a certain degree of consistency across audiences; without communality, it loses some of its essential impact.
— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you wi... See more
Hypercycle
docs.google.comAcknowledging this bias or incompleteness is perhaps the most important part of the work.
Answers are mere theory.
Answers are mere theory.
Matt Klein • Making Sense of Culture Amidst Contradiction
