Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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One of the benefits of producing consistent creative work is that it comes with a narrative network effect: The more people who know and love the story of an object, the stronger the tie to that object becomes. For a brand like MSCHF, success might not always come from money—sometimes, it comes from products that reinforce how they want to... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
If digital media has proven itself to function as an existential photocopier – with each of us as the source material – the next generation of AI-enabled tools promises even more rapid and radical replications of selfhood.
Lore Oxford • The egostack
Repetition — helping people make muscle memory to help them remember
Routine — using familiar structures to make comprehension easier; to tune out what’s the same and tune into what’s different
Ritual — doing something again and again as a means of giving meaning. ritual is devotion through repetition; a practice
“the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
A quote from The Utopia of Rules
i do worry that it has become easier to appear interesting than it is to actually be interesting given our easy access to tools that are supposed feed our idiosyncrasies, washing away the work it takes to actually develop a unique opinion. i find that people often mistake “coolness” for “interest” as if their Prada Collapse sneakers were a packet... See more
RT and being interesting
I didn’t fancy the linearity of conventional biographies,” he said. “Lives don’t run in straight lines, and every time we think about them in retrospect (i.e., every time we start remembering) we actually rethink them. Our lives are stories we write and rewrite. There is no single reliable narrative of a life.”
archive.ph
ather than create clocks that produce uniformity and ensnare us in regularity, why not create clocks that suit your pattern of being, whose minutes follow the length of your breath, or match your circadian rhythms?
“can we not set a timer anymore?”
time with you feels like _______
• post-tragic (meaning and agency on the other side of despair)
• post-extrinsic (driven by new societal purposes)
• post-rational (open to ways of knowing that transcend and include the intellect),
• post-exploitation (reflective about the uses and abuses of power)
• post-tribal (whole-hearted togetherness in a world of love and power; an expansive
... See moreCreative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
You always hear people say, "Well, it's the market, it's the market." What the hell does that mean? I don't even know what that means as opposed to what did you do to ... I mean, the world's going to exist whether you like it or not. I always say I got to live in this world; I don't create it. The world's happening, what are you going to do about... See more