Agalia Tan

When curiosity is at tension with productivity, and play is eclipsed by monetization, we get nothing good.

As Rory Sutherland sees it,

“People effectively are laser focused on the things they can get bollocked for. And it's much, much easier to get bollocked for being illogical than it is to get bollocked for being unimaginative.

You can't bollock

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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... See more

the newness fades as the innovations are monetized to death. Any joy in the new forms of expression is ruthlessly exploited, most often in the form of increased advertising. There's something Sisyphean in the whole process. Authentic online cultures are always being ruined, as users inevitably complain, but also always emerging again. No platform

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What Brands Can Learn from the Beckham Saga

1. Don’t deliver a story, start one
   
   Gen Z treats information as improv material. Drop seeds and tempt them to interpret, remix and expand, rather than just consume.


2. Truth is a group project
   
   When everything feels like a PR strategy, truth can’t simply be claimed. Let multiple perspectives coexist and show

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There’s that Oscar Wilde quote: “Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.”

Power in all its sundry shades of that which we want but cannot be sure that we have: status, respect, desire.

Maybe that’s what I really want when I’m writing?

Writing stuff in the 21st century (that’s this one) means writing online, and writing... See more

We don’t just want to be a utility. We want to be something that brings emotion.