Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can’t write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you write the first draft, don’t let the judgy editor get near. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgment.
Noah Smith • Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist
Brands spend a lot of time embodying statements, but of course they’re really asking questions.
Just Do It is really asking what’s stopping you, besides yourself?
I’m Lovin’ It is really asking why feel guilty?
A Diamond Is Forever is really asking yes but how much do you really love her you fickle piece of shit ? or something like that anyway.
Just Do It is really asking what’s stopping you, besides yourself?
I’m Lovin’ It is really asking why feel guilty?
A Diamond Is Forever is really asking yes but how much do you really love her you fickle piece of shit ? or something like that anyway.
{D} 119: Yes but what's your question
The Beckham saga is what fragmented media looks like in practice. Without a single source of truth, it takes the shape of parallel stories unfolding simultaneously. What it ultimately reveals is a shift in how meaning is produced for younger generations. Stories are no longer simply reported and accepted, but heavily negotiated, while morality is... See more
Divided = Attention: What the Beckham Saga Reveals About Modern Media
Some people like to know exactly what they’re getting themselves into when trying something new. And some people would rather not know, for fear of crippling anticipatory dread. Don’t assume! While your inclination might be to detail exactly what is to come in order to make people more comfortable, consider how you might create tiers of information... See more
Now, AGI is a repetition and an escalation. First comes the lights-out factory, then the lights-out office, then, finally, the lights-out mind. Any questions?
wow everything about AGI is bleak. And it being a rhetorical black hole means no one exactly knows what it is.
It’s a demystification exercise
when reality is this negotiable, the soil for preferred futures is fertile.
The Art of (Attention) War
The funny thing about coming up with your own definition of success is it becomes easier to make decisions.
Lessons I'm still learning
Style is a means by which a human being gains contact with others; it is personality clothed in words, character embodied in speech. If handwriting reveals character, style reveals it still more.
F. L. Lucas, Style