Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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If you ask yourself how to be more you in whatever you’re in the thick of, what happens for you?
We're not for everyone — and that's the truth
I’ve been there so many times, deep in the matrix of capitalism. Contorting my values and beliefs into a professional, ROI-shaped-object. It felt… not optional.
oof and on working
Why do I care about these topics ?
What is it about these topics that’s interesting to me ?
Whatever the answer is, that’s where your writing begins.
You’re just trying to find readers who have the same questions you do.
Which means that the act of writing for a reader is the act of trying to find those answers—those further questions beyond—together.
What is it about these topics that’s interesting to me ?
Whatever the answer is, that’s where your writing begins.
You’re just trying to find readers who have the same questions you do.
Which means that the act of writing for a reader is the act of trying to find those answers—those further questions beyond—together.
{D} 119: Yes but what's your question
We don’t need to define ourselves by the things we make, but we can still make them. This goes back to the idea of handiness, right? This isn’t a book about becoming an expert in any one thing. It’s about trying lots of things and becoming increasingly capable as a result. It’s about getting comfortable experimenting with something you’ve never... See more
Redefining "Handy" and Learning How to Make Things
on kindle, no one can see the type of book you are reading
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
the things in your immediate vicinity are the things that are going to dominate your life. So picking and influencing your neighborhood is really important... the neighborhood determines quite a bit about our life and our happiness.
3-2-1: On mental toughness, when confidence fools you, and the importance of neighborhoods
A publication isn't content. A publication is the exploration
of an idea.
of an idea.
In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world—in order to set up a shadow world of “meanings.”... See more