Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.”
― Henry David Thoreau
30 Useful Concepts (Spring 2024)
We all know the vibes...the body is surveilled, optimised, deepfaked, hyper-embodied and dis-embodied; not post-human exactly but at the very least, networked. As author Vauhini Vara, explains in Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age , “Our subtle self-modification according to technological capitalism’s norms is so pervasive that certain types of... See more
~+Accessorising Networked Bodies+~
Something that’s been on my mind is flipping the relationship between the human and language model when going through a creative process. It seems that we often want to ask questions of language models, and we expect them to brainstorm ideas or give us answers, but I wonder if another fruitful pattern here is having models ask questions of us .
ChatGPT as muse, not oracle
Good ideas — actually, no, great ideas are fragile. Great ideas are easy to kill. An idea in its larval stage — all the best ideas when I first heard them sound bad. And all of us, myself included, are much more affected by what other people think of us and our ideas than we like to admit.... See more
If you are just four people in your own door, and you have
Henrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moresimplicity is the ultimate sophistication
We tell them that if they just find their passion, work will magically transform into endless joy, as if difficulty is just a symptom of being in the wrong job rather than an inevitable part of doing anything worthwhile. As if work were some unfortunate byproduct of insufficient enthusiasm rather than the very engine of human flourishing.
This lie... See more
This lie... See more
The key thing to take away from this is that the real expertise here isn’t doing the work. It’s knowing how to guide the work. How to evaluate the work. It’s knowing what is worth prompting — which is really just another way of saying: knowing what’s worth doing.
I saw someone define modern art as:
Modern art = You could do that + Yeah, but you... See more
I saw someone define modern art as:
Modern art = You could do that + Yeah, but you... See more
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
Loving sharpens the self and taste
People often talk about crushes as aspirational mirrors. Often, they reflect the qualities we long to cultivate in ourselves - confidence, charisma, creativity, spiritual clarity. When we fall for someone, we’re drawn to the version of ourselves that wakes up in their light as much as we are drawn to them as... See more
People often talk about crushes as aspirational mirrors. Often, they reflect the qualities we long to cultivate in ourselves - confidence, charisma, creativity, spiritual clarity. When we fall for someone, we’re drawn to the version of ourselves that wakes up in their light as much as we are drawn to them as... See more