Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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You can make a thing so perfect that it’s ruined.
Derek Thompson • What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture
My latest column at The New Yorker is about the revenge of homepages: Why we're turning toward individual websites as the platform era of the internet continues to disintegrate.
I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a... See more
I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a... See more
... See moreTwitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey explained why succinctly in an email he sent out to the whole company. "If you have to use someone else’s name or authority to get a point across, there is little merit to the point (you might not believe it yoursel), If you believe something ro be correct, focus on showing your work to prove it. Authority derives
I notice we tend to talk about challenger brands from the implicit position of ‘Blimey! Who would have guessed that would work?!’ Yet from the very first second you hear a good challenger idea, it’s screamingly obvious when it’s gonna slay⁵. The whole challenger approach IS JUST ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE BOOK OF CONVENTIONAL WISDOM INNIT.
And if I’m honest in the work, maybe I could be honest as a person. Maybe.
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
“People call romantic films ‘chick flicks’ as a way to diminish them, which I find unspeakably sad, not just for the way it excludes ‘chicks’ from the realm of ‘serious people,’ but also for the way it excludes ‘serious people’ from the realm of romance and love.
Dakota Johnson and director Celine Song rethink the rom-com with 'Materialists'
The thing beneath the thing is the process.
The process of humans coming together.
Sharing ideas outside of the cookie-cutter norm.
And making something beautiful.
Because that’s what humans do.
The process is the point.
Because it is only through the process
that a squishy little grey blob
can become
something sublime.
The process of humans coming together.
Sharing ideas outside of the cookie-cutter norm.
And making something beautiful.
Because that’s what humans do.
The process is the point.
Because it is only through the process
that a squishy little grey blob
can become
something sublime.
The story of Sublime's logo
Over the past ten years, media companies have responded to their loss of audience by creating “viral” editorial that performs well inside the platform’s engagement-at-all-costs ecosystem. Predictably, however, quality editorial – the context journalists create for a living – rarely qualifies as viral.
John Battelle • John Battelle's Search Blog Marketers Have Given Up on Context, And Our National Discourse Is Suffering
26. Escapism is an art.
In a polyreality world, escapism is no longer about fleeing reality—it’s about moving fluidly from one reality to the next. Romantasy, fantasy, alternate worlds, retreats, gaming, virtual reality, social media, AI: today’s physical and digital technologies increasingly aim to become indistinguishable from magic. But this is... See more
In a polyreality world, escapism is no longer about fleeing reality—it’s about moving fluidly from one reality to the next. Romantasy, fantasy, alternate worlds, retreats, gaming, virtual reality, social media, AI: today’s physical and digital technologies increasingly aim to become indistinguishable from magic. But this is... See more