Agalia Tan

AI image generation is essentially a truncated exercise in taste; a product of knowing which inputs and keywords to feed the image-mashup machine, and the eye to identify which outputs contain any semblance of artistry. All that is to say: AI itself can’t generate good taste for you.

The journey is about continual way-finding. It’s not like you find a way and then you’re done. Way-finding must happen everyday.

The day I compromise what I write to satisfy the whims of some corporate overlord is the day that I quit writing for a career.

The best thing is being able to make a living doing work that indulges your curiosities with people you legitimately like being with, what a rare thing indeed.

Physical affordances are things like stairs and handles and benches. Conversational affordances are things like digressions and confessions and bold claims that beg for a rejoinder. Talking to another person is like rock climbing, except you are my rock wall and I am yours. If you reach up, I can grab onto your hand, and we can both hoist ourselves... See more

Our uniquely human advantage isn't in processing more, faster - machines will always outpace us there. Our strength lies in something far more foundational: our capacity to move in cycles, to integrate deeply, to mine the creative wisdom that emerges from stillness. While AI races to compress time, we can expand into it. True innovation comes not... See more