Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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The more people who buy a product, the further the product’s message spreads, the more money the company makes, the more they can invest in their projects. It's a virtuous cycle of creation and consumption. By making scale—the number of people who use or see the creation—an explicit part of the art’s statement, they naturally marry the business’s... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
Paradoxically, the illegible is where value is created.
Value emerges when we have to strive to understand meaning and truth. But now, the speed of conversion to commercial value is instantaneous . The metaphorical DRC is in our mouths immediately, without any processing, appreciating, learning, or pairing. The “new” is absorbed and digested in a... See more
Value emerges when we have to strive to understand meaning and truth. But now, the speed of conversion to commercial value is instantaneous . The metaphorical DRC is in our mouths immediately, without any processing, appreciating, learning, or pairing. The “new” is absorbed and digested in a... See more
Matt Klein • Reality Somms: How to Cultivate A Discipline of Knowing What’s Real
it’s just getting harder for brands, particularly new brands, to achieve and sustain that kind of fame because there are fewer opportunities for them to send messages that everyone sees, due to the way media has shattered into a million tiny pieces. Thus common knowledge is rarer, more valuable and more expensive than ever. The price of Super Bowl... See more
The Ruffian, Special Edition: Book Club
fragmenting of social means common knowledge isn’t THAT common anymore
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a
Humans are simpler than the instructions would have us believe. We’re all looking for the same things. To be seen. To be accepted. To connect. To matter. This is true for readers and writers and kids and strangers and the cast of Love Is Blind.
The concept of “wellness” has evolved into a massive industry worth billions, and yet beneath the glossy veneer lies an ironic reality: the pursuit of wellness is making people unwell.