Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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There is no such thing as closeness without friction.
The Friendship Theory of Everything
It's not enough just to do something extraordinary initially. You have to make an extraordinary effort initially. Any strategy that omits the effort — whether it's expecting a big launch to get you users, or a big partner — is ipso facto suspect.
Paul Graham • Do Things that Don't Scale
The rise of AI abusers? https://archive.ph/YIGkB
French writer and poet Rene Daumal reminds us that it's not about what we achieve, but who we become in the process:
"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends,... See more
"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends,... See more
3-2-1: The Atomic Habits Workbook, how our quests shape us, and being kind to the future
When the facts change, I change my mind
— John Maynard Keynes
The difference today is that in Filterworld, the metrics-the number of likes, the preexisting attention-tend to speak louder than the piece of culture itself. Not only do they act as a measure of success, but they create success, because they dictate what is recommended to and seen by audiences in the first place.
— Filterworld, pg. 132
Every “overnight success” is the result of years of thankless work. Success comes not from great acts of genius but from doing lots of small things consistently
23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
When some of us hear the word community we think of Instagram. We think of Reddit. Or abstract concepts like the LGBT community or mental health communities, nothing real or solid. Which is why whenever someone says something like online communities are a lifeline for young people! I feel like screaming because it’s just so bleak. What have we... See more
Freya India • The Age of Abandonment
It empowers us to be worldbuilders. To create, for one another, the worlds we want to live in. To build spaces that encourage us to be more full and more whole — for strangers and for neighbors, for friends and for people on the internet we have never and will never meet.