Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
There are two types of people making stuff: content creators and artists .
Both are creative. But there is one distinct difference: Content creators are willing to trade control for speed. Artists are not.
Both are creative. But there is one distinct difference: Content creators are willing to trade control for speed. Artists are not.
- Content creators are willing to trade control for speed. Creators are trying to get a good-enough cut, a performant-enough ad, or an
Scott Belsky • AI & Artistry, the Resurgence of Hardware Startups, & Unicorns that are Really Rabbits
"We're not trying to please everybody. We're not cooking for critics. I cook for customers. If I started cooking for critics, I'd probably be really miserable." - David Chang
Designing For Desire
always remember the audience, and who you do NOT serve
new essay.
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photo on cover: Bees by Chen Zhe
[hobby, obsessions, time, mindful, deep attention, art of noticing, painting, music, art, origami, pottery, dance, baking, scuba, ada lovelace, women]
instagram.com“The reaction from the film industry has been curiosity and excitement, but also confusion,” he said. “Everyone wants me to make a director’s cut. I could make a really good one, but that would be sort of antithetical to the whole exercise, for me to exert that level of control.”
archive.ph
Not only do we tend to rewrite our memories according to the narratives we believe in at the moment, we are also easily influenced by word choices e.g. using the phrase ‘a car that zoomed past’ versus ‘a car that drove past’ can cause us to believe different things.
Memory is less so a recording or a catalogue, but more like vapour.
How can we reclaim data as a tool for clarity instead of submitting to its chaos?... See more
Just because we can measure everything doesn't mean we should. Digital media gave way to instant metrics which led to instant expectations on results but a CTR, a bounce rate, or even a conversion doesn’t always tell the whole story. The obsession with short-term,
Strands of Genius: AI Eating Its Own Homework = Model Collapse = Blurry Grey Future, Creativity Is Waiting to Erup…
My job is not to think about what exists but rather what I want that does not yet exist.