Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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“It’s published here on the understanding that it will never appear online, because of course, the last thing they’d want is for their favourite places to suddenly become ordinary.”
Steve from Stack Magazine on August’s issue
A question is a lens that frames how you see things.
A question is a provocation.
A question is what stirs up new associations and brings up mental cues.
A question leads, and directs.
A good question gets to the heart of things.
A bad question gives you red herrings.
the McNamara fallacy, as it came to be known, refers to our tendency to focus on the most quantifiable measures, even if doing so leads us from our actual goals. Put simply, we try to measure what we value, but end up valuing what we measure.
Why Everything is Becoming a Game
Your calendar is the most honest autobiography you'll ever write.
It doesn't matter what you say your priorities are; your calendar reveals the truth. Each block is a decision about what matters, stripped of pretense and rationalization.
Your calendar isn't just recording your time—it's exposing your lies.
It doesn't matter what you say your priorities are; your calendar reveals the truth. Each block is a decision about what matters, stripped of pretense and rationalization.
Your calendar isn't just recording your time—it's exposing your lies.
Brain Food: Greats Don't Wait
Reminds me of this quote from How will you measure your life by Clayton Christensen: “you’re not implementing the strategy you intend if you don’t spend your time, your money, and your talent in a way that’s consistent with your intentions.”
“We can use technology as a structural tool to do interesting things with the narrative. This idea that a film has to be set in stone and always linear is obsolete, I think. There’s another possible path here for filmmaking going forward.”
archive.ph
It’s research, but not in a traditional sense of research. It’s almost like a personal philosophy research or something. It’s how you form your opinions about a specific category of things. The terms I use most often are “textured” and “resonant” — I think when you see collections that have been cared for over many years and have a very specific... See more
An Interview with Spencer Chang | Are.na Editorial
Ad legend Bill Bernbach letter on creativity, written in 1947:
Dear ________:
Our agency is getting big. That’s something to be happy about. But it’s something to worry about, too, and I don’t mind telling you I’m damned worried. I’m worried that we’re going to fall into the trap of bigness, that we’re going to worship techniques instead of
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strategy and for makers
strategy is the very human act of imagination. ‘Seeing’ what does not yet exist. Seeing things as they could be. As we would want them to be.