Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We're like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something - the book you're writing, the album, the movie -and staying there for a long, long time
— STRATSCRAPS v101
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.
I don’t talk about it much but I do work at Google and I just want to contribute, as a small addendum to the wider conversation about AI, and how much it sucks, and how stupid it is, and how if you make garlic oil like it tells you to you will give botulism to your entire family -
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more
Pyrrhic Comedy
WHEN REVIEWING WORK, THINK IN THEMES. Let the CD worry about plot holes.
strat*scraps_v152
Over-processing the work is too real a problem in a world of bloated middle management.
“I would have done this differently, but how you did it works too” is a sentiment not heard nearly enough.
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plenty of fun metaphors for this one…
there’s a reason a car only has one steering wheel.
There are many ways to get somewhere. the most incorrect option is... See more
“I would have done this differently, but how you did it works too” is a sentiment not heard nearly enough.
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plenty of fun metaphors for this one…
there’s a reason a car only has one steering wheel.
There are many ways to get somewhere. the most incorrect option is... See more
A lesson I need to learn: It's ok to disappoint other people if you avoid disappointing yourself.
Applying universal logic gives our experiences a certain weight and our lives a certain order. I assume this is why we’re so drawn to recasting our life stories into tidy narratives and lessons to be shared with others. But in doing this we risk underestimating chaos, nuance, idiosyncrasy, and the occasional dose of self-delusion.
Haley Nahman • #155: How to be delusional
moneyball and when creating vector, i thought of...
themes of rigidity and how we should embrace CHAOS
On the other side of our algorithmic anxiety is a state of numb-ness. The dopamine rushes become inadequate, and the noise and speed of the feeds overwhelming. Our natural reaction is to seek out culture that embraces nothingness, that blankets and soothes rather than challenges or surprises, as powerful artwork is meant to do. Our capacity to be
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