Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Like girls, boys openly express their desire for genuine connections with others, including with boys. They reveal the human capacity for mutual understanding, care, and empathy and demonstrate remarkably astute abilities to read the human world. Yet as they reach middle to late adolescence and as expectations of manhood intensify, they begin to... See more
changing face of masculinity
"what is the smallest amount of progress that will be useful and valuable to the essential task we are trying to get done?"
advice for when you wanna start something and when creating vector, i thought of...
minimal viable progress
On the flipside of hyperfantasy, there also lies hyperreality. Borne out of our desire to return to what’s fundamentally human in the age of AI and our growing distaste for the distraction economy that’s predicated on entertainment imperative and seamlessness, we are seeking realness in what we consume and do. Honesty and friction triumph.
When you wait, you lose momentum. And momentum is incredibly powerful because when you’re inspired, you act—and you do it with enthusiasm.
Erifili Gounari • literally just do things
There is no destination, only more embarkations and inceptions.
bobbyhundreds • That's Enough.
... See moreWhen you’re creating, you have to have an internal compass. An innate, inherent thing that I’ll call a passion-o-meter — a meter that measures when you really believe in something.
Something has to feel right to you, whatever that unknown thing is, in order for you to share it with others. It’s about having such a keenness to bring that thing you
The future won’t be built merely by those who move fastest, but by those who remember how to stand still. Until we recover the courage to receive what we cannot produce, we will mistake velocity for vision. And we’ll keep accelerating—not toward the good, but simply away from the ground.
Luke Burgis • Everything Is Fast
“in this version though, a lot of your story is written by others. You write your autofiction about yourself and others write their fictions about you, often anonymously, on Substacks, subreddits, messageboards like Lolcow, on Twitter and Instagram and podcasts too, and this makes things different from what has come before. The lives of these
... See moreFeedback is a gift
Honest, thoughtful feedback is a gift. While it's fun to think about how other people should change their approach, it's empowering to know that you have control as a feedback recipient. You're 50% of a one-on-one feedback conversation, so if the conversation isn't going the way you hoped, think about what you could do... See more
Honest, thoughtful feedback is a gift. While it's fun to think about how other people should change their approach, it's empowering to know that you have control as a feedback recipient. You're 50% of a one-on-one feedback conversation, so if the conversation isn't going the way you hoped, think about what you could do... See more