Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Work with NOBL
Consulting Slop
a funny quirky AI system that churns out consulting slop > to redirect clients to their own services. love the CTA
And then I paid attention. Not just to what the tools could do, but to how they made me feel. How were they changing me? The nature of work? What it feels like to be human.
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
- “Are you two a couple?” - which has become a recognised catchphrase
- “Would you mind telling us the story of how you first met?”
- “X years in, what's your favourite thing about her/him?” or
variations like "What's the secret of X years together?" - the
interviewer always establishes the length of the relationship - "What are your names?" marks the
Formats Unpacked: Meet Cutes LDN
MeetCutes NYC: “I see this format as a contemporary form of Documentary (which is my heartland) and just as effective at documenting our times as any of the more traditional doc formats. This is especially true when taken as a whole (rather than individual films), it’s a kaleidoscope of love, connection and human interaction today.”
"Ask for things. Ask for things that feel unreasonable, to make sure your intuitions about what's reasonable are accurate (of course, try not to be a jerk in the process). If you're only asking for things you get, you're not aiming high enough."
3-2-1: On finding the best way to do something, how timing shapes communication, and making unreasonable requests
"Go deeper and weirder and make something that is so human and so strange that it can't be duplicated by an algorithm."
Richard Whittaker • Just a moment...
for certain people
maja • Some Parts of You Only Emerge for Certain People
These are the run clubs and swim clubs with very robustly branded websites for some reason, websites that greet you with full-width videos of delighted people being very sweaty together. New ventures for “group conversation” or exclusive social spaces or curated clubs with sign-up flows and membership levels that evoke the rigor of a bank account... See more
Elise Granata • What We Lose When Optimizing Community
What are you optimising for?