Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Charles Hayward, a cabinet maker and editor of The Woodworker magazine, on starting the year with enthusiasm:
"There is a dynamic quality about enthusiasm which nothing can resist. You can see it in the street orator, whose whole heart is in his argument, swaying a crowd. You can feel it in the work of any artist—painter, writer, musician, or... See more
"There is a dynamic quality about enthusiasm which nothing can resist. You can see it in the street orator, whose whole heart is in his argument, swaying a crowd. You can feel it in the work of any artist—painter, writer, musician, or... See more
3-2-1: On the power of quiet moments, how to make good habits easy, and starting the year with enthusiasm
The words that stick are borrowed, not invented. They come from fields where they already do work - software, biology, science fiction, political economy - and get reapplied to open up new ways of thinking. The best borrowed words don’t just describe; they import entire frameworks of understanding, entire sets of questions, entire ways of thinking... See more
Zoe Scaman • The Naming of Things
new vocabulary in 2026 is very much needed
Nintendo Music, on the one hand, is another Nintendo standalone digital product emerging out of the corpses from previous apps including the 2016 social game Miitomo and quirky products like the Power Globe. On the other hand, I fucking love it — and there are four specific reasons why:
- It creates further reliance on the integrated Nintendo
How Nintendo Music Potentially Outlines the Future of Media
in a sense, a challenger in the music space. But interesting that they have taken this approach as a way to protect their IP and maintain a direct r/s with their audience rather than building on other platforms where there’s less control
we need to remember that we produce culture merely by existing in it . The people who are in the photos and dancing to the music are just as important as the people making them; it’s indisputably a symbiotic relationship. And besides, culture also emerges from the everyday. That book club you started with your friends, that’s culture. Seeing the... See more
MØRNING • Q̾u̾i̾c̾k̾ ̾F̾i̾r̾e̾: Creation Anxiety
Before we can move forward, we have to make space for what’s ending and sit in the uncertainty that follows. That uncomfortable, in-between space—the neutral zone, the abyss—isn’t a problem to solve. It’s where change and realignment happens.
Sitting in lostness can feel excruciating for ambitious types who are so used to doing. But when you’re lost... See more
Sitting in lostness can feel excruciating for ambitious types who are so used to doing. But when you’re lost... See more
This urge might be semi-subconscious, a drift toward the real-time (or the appearance of such) and a slow dismissal of the pre-made. Livestreamed video is hard to fake, and a live interview is, on some baseline level, authentic. The spoken language of a three-hour podcast episode is messy, meandering, and often internally inconsistent, but it has... See more