Agalia Tan

The short of it is that when we think about information diets we might fixate on the quantity of information but ignore the quality and the processing of it. That’s like only looking at calories to determine if a diet is healthy. We need to have a higher-fidelity picture of the information we consume – our entire perception of reality relies upon... See more

The agency model as we know it is broken — good work often sits static, collecting dust on client shelves; value is extracted, much more than its exchanged; communal spirit is claimed while old power dynamics remain; and it's far too easy to feel like we’re not doing anything. As a result, waves and waves of brilliant, curious folks have burnt out... See more

Cue The Visuals: Repackaged Sameness

The reason the same corny ideas cycle endlessly online isn’t just because people love bite-sized wisdom—it’s because graphic design can breathe new life into the same tired advice. The aesthetic evolution of a message—whether it’s slapped onto a hope-core edit, stock image or Canva template — makes it infinitely... See more

Novelist Ernest Hemingway on acting with confidence while living with humility:

"Be humble after but not during the action."

If AI chatbots and AI-powered search results are summarizing everything for you, why would you go to a website? And if we all stop going to websites, what’s the incentive to put new content on the web? What’s going to stop shady characters from flooding the web with AI-generated spam to try and game these systems? And if we succeed in choking the... See more

you’d assume that in moments like this, people would seek stability and comfort in their media. Instead, you see the opposite: let’s dial that shit up. It’s not always about escape. So sometimes it’s about translation – making the chaos palatable, survivable.

Looking for love sounds more like chasing the high of an extreme sport, trust falling with someone you don’t really know like that. It demands exacting reciprocity, extreme vulnerability. It brings out people’s basest and most primal instincts and a frightening desire to merge into someone else. When the girlies on TikTok talk about dating, they... See more