Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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I encourage you to tune into the experience of seriousness in your day-to-day life. What aspects feel tight, heavy, and constrained? In these areas, see if you can tune into any undercurrents of enjoyment. In the context of games, the way to let go of seriousness is to focus on just having fun. And the same applies in life.
Be Sincere—Not Serious
“How do you take a walk with someone on the internet?”
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
Where once a designer might have been hired to create packaging or campaigns behind the scenes, many are now brought forward as faces of collaborations – they’re photographed in their studios and interviewed about their process as part of launch. The designer’s body, personality, and public profile become a commercial asset. Like the long-running... See more
Elizabeth Goodspeed • Elizabeth Goodspeed on the rise of the designer as influencer
the new face of influencer collabs
‘fair game’
By the eighteenth century, a new ideology was taking form, especially in Britain, that “greed is good” (to use a recent summary formulation), because greed spurs a society’s efforts and inventiveness. By giving vent to greed, the logic goes, societies can best harness the insatiable ambitions, great energies and ingenuity of their citizens. While
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when creating vector, i thought of...
the zine theme is bypassing the invisible hand. When Adam Smith first came up with the metaphor of the invisible hand of the market, he was referring to how individuals acting in self-interest could promote good for the public. But what this was also an argument to allow market forces to play out.
Today, the invisible hand has our heads turned, and has placed efficiency on a pedestal. What results is a society characterised by clockwork.
Everything is clockwork.
When a group comes together, noise is easy. Just a few people have to make a commotion for noise to happen.
But silence requires everyone to be in sync.
But silence requires everyone to be in sync.
Seth's Blog : Silence vs noise
Popular culture seems to agree with this view. Morning routines, writing routines, exercise routines—these are the blueprints of modern self-actualization, shared online one after another for a perpetually searching public. We study them like clues that may lead us to the correct way to be. The correct way to repeat ourselves.
Too many businesses don’t really understand that the core of their business is making people feel good. Whether it’s walking into a store or a restaurant, or being on an airplane, most people go through life hoping that good things will happen to them, and they return to businesses that make those things happen.