Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
bio.site
machines are trying to be more human, but are we?
Everyone exaggerates. Sometimes it’s fun. Sometimes it’s annoying. Sometimes it’s outright deceiving. The risk of too much corporate cheer is that it turns off the very people it’s trying to win over: journalists. They don’t trust it. And if they don’t trust it, chances are they aren’t going to cover it.
every decision you make is a vote towards the type of person you are
What is risky work? And what if we tend to fundamentally mistake what is or is not risky? What if the formulaic, expected, small c-conservative work is, in fact, the riskiest? What if fitting in with what’s expected and copying what everyone else is doing, far from de-risking, actually adds risk?
Off Kilter 141: World’s Most Expensive Scuba Mask.
Brian Lange puts it brilliantly: “Transaction is identity exchange.”
Consumers exchange capital for identity, and makers exchange their time, labor and expression for the goods or services they sell. Commerce is a continuous exchange of identities.
Consumers exchange capital for identity, and makers exchange their time, labor and expression for the goods or services they sell. Commerce is a continuous exchange of identities.
Matt Klein • Making Sense of Culture Amidst Contradiction
George Leonard on how mastery is nothing but a series of plateaus with brief spurts of progress:
“The most important lessons here — especially for young people — is that even if you’re shooting for the stars, you’re going to spend most of your time on a plateau. That’s where the deepest, most lasting learning takes place, so you might as well enjoy... See more
“The most important lessons here — especially for young people — is that even if you’re shooting for the stars, you’re going to spend most of your time on a plateau. That’s where the deepest, most lasting learning takes place, so you might as well enjoy... See more
“identity is not situational, it lives on an axis'“
Culture brands don’t typically win by being better. They win by moving the goalposts for everyone around them. You should always be aiming to change the larger playing field.
What I’m building is worth being real about.”
ChatGPT
the term AI is a huge disservice and collective intelligence is a far more accurate term.
Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out of it.
Once I saw that, I couldn’t unsee it.
Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out of it.
Once I saw that, I couldn’t unsee it.