Agalia Tan

Like, if that’s the Netflix legacy with Hollywood: make people do things they don’t feel comfortable doing. Creating this streaming paradigm in this way that everyone has to catch up to you—and as soon as they start to catch up to you, just say, “No, we’re actually going to do what you guys did. Thanks for spending all that money on completely... See more

About one in 10 PR professionals say their biggest challenge with writing a press release is not having enough newsworthy content to work with.

As D’Angelo put it: “It’s important for PR people to do a clinical assessment of news value before they send something out, because there is so much garbage out there.”

Forget everything we know and love about physical magazines. Forget their length. Forget their size. Forget their weekly or monthly publishing schedule. Forget all these qualities except for one: What it’s like to come to an end, and to take a deep breath.

What does a bookend — an edge — mean for narrative arc? Broadly, it helps define the shape of... See more

Up till about 1985 it was still not clear what would happen with mechanical watches. By 1990 it was. By 1990 the custom of using expensive, highly-branded, conspicuously mechanical watches as status symbols was firmly established. [7]

Obsolete technologies don't usually get adopted as ways to display wealth. Why did it happen with mechanical... See more

That environment doesn’t produce “nihilism.” It produces rational repositioning.

If the expected value of the traditional path collapses, people move further out on the risk curve. Not because they’re delusional, but because they can do basic math.

the more we have the confidence and ability to make things from what we already have, the less we feed the capitalist system that doesn’t care about us or the people making our stuff or the planet that our rampant consumerism is actively making uninhabitable.

Don’t Leave the Silly Out of the Serious, or the Serious out of the Silly