Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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If you’re building technology for the people now flooding into entrepreneurship, you’re selling to a market where capability is abundant and meaning is scarce.
Luxury Software
"You can be authentic and hardworking and still struggle to find your footing if you’re in the wrong environment.
Think about your placement as much as your performance. Plant yourself where you can... See more
- A fun person trapped in the wrong city.
- A loving partner in a relationship that won’t reciprocate.
- A great entrepreneur stuck in the wrong business.
Think about your placement as much as your performance. Plant yourself where you can... See more
3-2-1: On winning and losing, making the most of accidents, and when waiting doesn't work
joy is found in being the driver. It's the act of looking at the raw material of your circumstances — your time, your energy, your relationships, your skills — and seeing what you can make from it.
It is the act of creating the life you want (in big and small ways) that makes you feel alive and imbues life with extra meaning. The fact that you can... See more
It is the act of creating the life you want (in big and small ways) that makes you feel alive and imbues life with extra meaning. The fact that you can... See more
3-2-1: On winning and losing, making the most of accidents, and when waiting doesn't work
graeber quote. we can make the world different!
The sidelines are safe, but sterile. Nothing grows there.
3-2-1: On winning and losing, making the most of accidents, and when waiting doesn't work
“Categories saturate all that they contain with the same ideational and emotional flavour.”
— Psychology pioneer, Gordon Allport
American journalist and intellectual Walter Lippmann wrote, “For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance. We are not equipped to deal with so much subtlety, so much variety, so many permutations and combinations. And although we have to act in that environment, we have to reconstruct it on a
... See moreCategorization is one of the most important mental acts we perform, and we do it all the time…
One of the principal ways we categorize is by maximising the importance of certain differences, and minimising the relevance of others…
Merely placing objects in groups can affect our judgment of those objects. So while categorization is a natural and
... See moreIf you are a job applicant, the quality of your handshake can affect the outcome of your employment interview. If you are a salesperson, your degree of eye contact can influence your rating of customer satisfaction. If you are a doctor, the tone of your voice can have an impact on not only your patients’ assessment of their visit but their
... See moreTouch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby’s first year and an important influence throughout a person’s life.
— Subliminal, Leonard Mlodinow