Agalia Tan

There are many kinds of value. Time, space, personal freedom. Monetary worth is only one. You choose what holds the most weight.

In a fast-paced world full of intense economic/scientific/intellectual competition and decreasing opportunities for solitude, it is harder than ever before to justify spending significant time on intangible work that may or may not pay off. You can’t put on your resume—“I spend a lot of time thinking about ideas and scribbling notes that I don’t... See more

TikTok is creative and sprawling and often strange and anarchic, which mirrors the internet more broadly. There are few rules; the platform takes all comers. Chaos is inevitable. You can find absolutely anything; it’s incredible to witness how many different ways there are to be, how creative (or uncreative) people are, how we crave attention,... See more

As a recent article in Slate put it, “Unless organizations develop clear strategies, A.I. in the workplace becomes a bull in a china shop—with those who never even wanted it tasked with cleaning up the mess.”

Not to be Captain Obvious, but isn’t it just trust? People trust other people, particularly those with unique taste or who are obsessives about particular topics. Trying to scale that with faceless institutional brands was always going to be hard. And then you mix in the normal perverse incentives of the internet. To me, there are a couple kinds of... See more

But that was just it – we were doing it our own way, at our own pace.

Comparison is the thief of joy and sensible business strategy too.

It’s worth asking not just whether to post, but what kinds of exposure feel worth giving.