Agalia Tan

For this reason, I suspect that many of my friends who write and publish rapidly are shortchanging themselves. They generate texts filled with hidden doors and move on before they’ve opened them.

Lately, when I’m stuck on a piece, I will print everything I’ve written and re-read it with a pair of scissors in hand. As I go, I will cut out the pieces that feel like they’re working: a phrase here, a sentence there, entire paragraphs if I’m lucky. Then I’ll lay out all the cut-out pieces on my desk and move them around, trying to find the right... See more

The surge in searches for “real” reveals a deep tension in our collective psyche — a desire to pierce through the artificial, filtered, performative and algorithmic veil and to witness something fundamentally raw, human and intimate.

The paradox is that we seek authenticity through the very mechanisms of mediation (screens), which drive us to crave... See more

We are surrounded by remarkable technological advancements, advanced tooling and infrastructure. However, without accounting for culture or desire, these tools fall flat, lacking the spark that transforms pure functionality into meaningful creations. Successful design goes beyond the superficiality of aesthetics and the pragmatism of... See more

"If we're all going to live longer, how are we going to fill up those extra 20-30 years?"

We had the incredible privilege of posing this question to one of my favorite thinkers, researcher and professor Jean Twenge whose work is all over the news right now.

Dr. Twenge argues that instead of fitting multiple lifetimes into one (which was my... See more

Simplicity takes an enormous amount of time and effort.