Agalia Tan

Forget everything we know and love about physical magazines. Forget their length. Forget their size. Forget their weekly or monthly publishing schedule. Forget all these qualities except for one: What it’s like to come to an end, and to take a deep breath.

What does a bookend — an edge — mean for narrative arc? Broadly, it helps define the shape of... See more

Apple, Nvidia, and OpenAI are all leaning into an ambient, multimodal future:

• Spatial Computing: Apple’s Vision Pro is just the start — digital information woven into the physical environment.


• Voice & Gesture: Interfaces are moving beyond glass screens to talk, glance, and movement.


• Proactive Agents: Systems that act without waiting for a typed query

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Not for making something fast but for making something wonderful. Not to automate your words but to alchemize your mind. And I've seen how these shifts in frame create ripple effects across every decision we make.

This isn’t just philosophical woo woo stuff—it’s practical. Because products are not neutral. They are opinions embedded in pixels –... See more

I think of scenes as very loose organizations of people associated with the creative process with a very loose but omnipotent hierarchy that can sometimes change from minute to minute.1

The thing that makes people most uncomfortable about scenes socially, is how they subject everyone involved to think about their social standing. I’ve got bad news... See more

When you’re genuinely curious about the world, when you let that curiosity guide your reading, your thinking, and your creating, you become a magnet for ideas, conversations, and opportunities. When you’re interested, you’re never boring. And when you’re interesting, the world can’t help but pay attention.