Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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With each passing month, social media is less social and more about media.
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Social psychologists sometimes categorize our non-verbal communication into 3 basic types:
body movements: facial expression, gestures, posture, eye movements
paralanguage: quality and pitch of your voice, the number and duration of pauses, and nonverbal sounds e.g. filler words, and clearing one’s throat
proxemics: the use of personal space
— Sublim
... See moreRather than getting hung up on the technology itself, it’s worth thinking about how it works on us. The effectiveness of a generative artwork has a lot to do with the medium of its output. A single still image, for instance, affects us differently from a song, and they’re both different from a movie. That’s where Eno’s idea about the human brain... See more
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There’s a difference between success that’s just an endless pursuit and success that actually enhances your life and that you allow yourself to appreciate and enjoy
Rolf Potts • Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul: Rolf Potts — How to Find Soulful Success and The Dance Between Creativity and Business
Good work should do at least one of these things: fund the life you actually want to live, align with values you can defend at dinner parties, surround you with people who challenge you to grow, or teach you skills that compound like interest over decades. Great work does several of these at once.
The type of person I’m assuming we’re looking for here is 1) someone that you will find fascinating to talk to after you’ve talked for 20,000 hours, 2) you feel comfortable with them talking through the hardest and most painful decisions you will face in your life, and 3) the conversation is wildly generative for both of you, in that it brings you... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Looking for Alice
To restore cultural innovation, he proposes, paradoxically, that we once again need to become intimately familiar with all that has come before:
In the past, conservatives treated the canon as a sacred and complete archive, something to be preserved rather than expanded. This is precisely why the avant-garde sought to destroy it. But in truth, even... See more
Alexi Gunner • idle gaze 076: archive-futurism
culture and how do we make better use of our archives?
nothing is ever new. The past informs the future
we talk too much about near-death experiences, not enough about near-life experiences