Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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The culture that thrives in Filterworld tends to be accessible, replicable, participatory, and ambient. It can be shared across wide audiences and retain its meaning across different groups, who tweak it slightly to their own ends. (In Filterworld, everything must be a meme, like a remixable joke or image optimized to travel across the Internet.)
This leap from pre-trained instinctual responses (”System 1”) to deeper, deliberate reasoning (“System 2”) is the next frontier for AI. It’s not enough for models to simply know things—they need to pause, evaluate and reason through decisions in real time.
Sonya Huang • Generative AI’s Act O1
In any creative endeavor, it’s possible to define success as the big win, the moment when your dreams match reality. Success is the end of imposter syndrome, stability and finally making it to the other side.
By this definition, it’s clear that success isn’t going to happen. It’s incompatible with the reason you do this work in the first place.
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By this definition, it’s clear that success isn’t going to happen. It’s incompatible with the reason you do this work in the first place.
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Paul on Defining Your Point Of View | Paul Smith's Foundation
paulsmithsfoundation.org"Digital technologies privilege our impulses over our intentions ."
ESTRATIJIRONES vol 156.
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yourworldoftext.com
“Grunt work” can be central to building community, but only if you do it yourself.
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2026 will be a struggle. The legacy institutions and tech platforms are consolidating, and this gives them more power. It’s reassuring to see how poorly they exercise that power—churning out reboots and retreads. (If they were smarter, the culture would suffer even more.) Their mistakes offer an opportunity for the outsider.
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Ted Gioia • Fifty People Control the Culture
“the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”