Agalia Tan

@agaaalia

Senior Strategist at We Are Social

RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore

All cardsCollections

16. The truth of anything is multidimensional and impossible to fully grasp. So a better question than “Is this true?” is “In what scenario is this true?”

Julie Zhuo x.com

perennially great questions to ask

Brand marketing requires a new operating system today:
From fixed to fluid
From singular to multifaceted
From didactic to dialogic

— Zoe Scaman, New Cultural Codes

worldbuilding

One is that it’s easy to mistake silence for informed diplomacy. If your manager is stressing you out, and you are putting up with it, it’s easy to think that you’re just being a good employee, and everyone is aware of how good you’re being. But unless your manager is quite emotionally intelligent, they may have no idea that you’re unhappy,... See more

Cate Hall • Are You Stuck in Movie Logic?

things you should remember

If Product Market Fit is about existing infrastructure ensuring blast off, Product Culture Fit signals that culture is ready for new meanings, symbols, and narratives. Does this idea align with social or individual values? Does this story make sense? Is this behavior socially acceptable?

Preferred Dining exploded... but to an extent . The pitch was... See more

Lessons From My Grandma Inventing DoorDash

strategy

Generative AI promised limitless creation—instead,it’sall about summarization

the impact of AI and AI in 2025

from the great truncation

Algorithmic recommendations are the latest iteration of the Mechanical Turk: a series of human decisions that have been dressed up and automated as technological ones, at an inhuman scale and speed.

Designed and maintained by the engineers of monopolistic tech companies, and running on data that we users continuously provide by logging in each day,

algorithmic anxiety

#102: No Worries if Not

Haley Nahman haleynahman.substack.com

to read later

We are in an age of existential tension, losing coherence on what we should be or should do. In not knowing, we observe a collective reframing of the lack of direction into freedom to play & indulge in experimenting with new roles and identities.

hyperfantasy

George Leonard on how mastery is nothing but a series of plateaus with brief spurts of progress:

“The most important lessons here — especially for young people — is that even if you’re shooting for the stars, you’re going to spend most of your time on a plateau. That’s where the deepest, most lasting learning takes place, so you might as well enjoy... See more

reminders to trust the process