Agalia Tan

After all what clients really want (and need and want more than ever) are outcomes , not just processes, deliverables, and assets. It tilts those formative and vital opening conversations decisively - what better condition are you seeking? How would your company be different as a result of this work? What harm would be alleviated? How much would... See more

Building a T-shaped knowledge graph means aggressively diversifying your information sources, spreading out wider to seemingly unrelated areas and capturing the advantage of being at the beginning of the diminishing returns curve where you’re constantly exposed to new ideas. It also means being selectively ignorant about certain things. You have to... See more

The art is in knowing what not to show; and creating meaning by how things are connected or contrasted.

Good curation filters noise and focuses attention.

Curation is also a form of taste projection. It comes with meaning and sometimes, identity.

It doesn’t last forever, but that’s really not the point.

Romanticism often compels us toward small, seemingly irrational gestures, acts of private theatre that make no sense on a spreadsheet yet much in the landscape of meaning: changing the restaurant you frequent because a conversation soured there; retiring a favourite dress worn on the night of an unforgivable quarrel; keeping an old métro ticket... See more

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on making the most of your opportunities:

"This is something a teacher told me years ago, and he's right:

If you're auditioning for something that you know you're never going to get—or maybe you read the script and didn't even like it, but you still have to go—if you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has... See more

On TikTok, anything and everything can be content. For those who are willing to play that particular game, they can film and share and monetize every mundane or salacious aspect of their lives. Nothing is sacred and everything is scalable.

By leading us off the easy path—the one that leads to the garbage can and the mailbox—we can enable new activities.