Agalia Tan

Let go of self-delusion, which is maybe the hardest thing of all to let go of. Shape the thing you’re making into a pure expression of the thing you’re making: “Cut away, strip away the unnecessary, and strip away what people expect.”

90 percent of success is not getting distracted.

For the you that is hungry for more moments that are tender, curious, full, both dumb funny and smart funny (thank goodness the robots are still crap at humor), emergent, and imperfect. For the you that is building good and better things for the humans in your lives. For the you that wants texture and stories and things that are whole, not just... See more

The large numbers don’t quite mean what they used to as signals of relevance or clout, as social media has become more aged, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence.

“Writers, podcasters, video makers, influencers, community leaders… the word people mostly use is creators, which is not perfect but it does capture the broad range of “People who make stuff and put it on the internet.” We also focus just as much on consumers: readers, listeners, viewers, community members, and such like. Put simply, though, it’s... See more

"If we're all going to live longer, how are we going to fill up those extra 20-30 years?"

We had the incredible privilege of posing this question to one of my favorite thinkers, researcher and professor Jean Twenge whose work is all over the news right now.

Dr. Twenge argues that instead of fitting multiple lifetimes into one (which was my... See more

TikTok is creative and sprawling and often strange and anarchic, which mirrors the internet more broadly. There are few rules; the platform takes all comers. Chaos is inevitable. You can find absolutely anything; it’s incredible to witness how many different ways there are to be, how creative (or uncreative) people are, how we crave attention,... See more