Agalia Tan

he’s also like a thought experiment: what if all you cared about was content? What if you didn’t give a fuck about anything or anyone, totally disregarded the future, and just “maxxed”? How far could you go? I am, perhaps to an unproductive degree, darkly fascinated to see how far he can go because the distance he travels will be an exact... See more

To find a good relationship, you do not start by saying, “I want a relationship that looks like this”—that would be starting in the wrong end, by defining form. Instead you say, “I’m just going to pay attention to what happens when I hang out with various people and iterate toward something that feels alive”—you start from the context.

When I say serious I

don’t

mean solemn and tedious.

I mean something closer to ‘dynamic persistence’, and a sense of humor is often critical to that. It’s hard to persist for a long time if you ‘take yourself too seriously’. You become rigid, stiff, the opposite of dynamic, and eventually you bang up against something that breaks you one way or... See more

It’s worth asking not just whether to post, but what kinds of exposure feel worth giving.

That model is dying because it doesn’t match the shape of the work anymore.

The work now is faster. More fluid. More intuitive. It doesn’t move in a straight line from brief to execution – it loops and iterates and responds in real time to culture and data and platform changes. It requires people who can think and make across disciplines. It... See more