Agalia Tan

AI is becoming emotional infrastructure at scale. 67% of people use AI for emotional support at least monthly; 15% daily; 43% weekly. One in five individuals would rely on AI emotional support even knowing it isn’t “genuine.”

Architectural literacy is knowing how to build when all the templates are null and void.

The traditional structure - holding companies, creative shops, the pitch-retainer-fee model - doesn’t work anymore. And no one’s handing out a blueprint for what comes next. Most people respond to that by trying to save the old model. Optimise it. Make it more... See more

Will you use this opportunity to grow and evolve or will you use it to beat yourself up?

Ideas start out small, weak and fragile. 

In order to grow, ideas need financial capital. 

But they also need emotional capital — good energy, positivity, and resilience. The best way to control your emotional capital is to fine tune your internal monologue and... See more

What city you live in. Who you date or marry. Which job you choose. What clothes you wear.

We all think we make these choices ourselves. It certainly feels like we’re in full control. But it turns out that our choices — both in our startups and in our lives — are more constrained than we think.

The unseen hand in them all is the networks that... See more

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen a group of humans tagged as a bowl of olives and a mezcal negroni. I'm not even hurt when this happens; it feels societally accepted at this point and I’m actually a little camera shy. But if you really think about it, doesn’t that say something about our priorities?

The paradox of human sexuality and social politics, and the tension between public performance vs. private desire is worthy of significantly more of our attention. I don’t say this lightly. Public condemnation often masks private fascination.

This data doesn’t just reveal our hypocrisy, but the intricate ways desire, itself, navigates social stigma.... See more