Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Today, identity expression isn’t just performed through the act of contributing to digital media, but consuming it, too. The algorithm has become so fundamental to identity formation that a recent qualitative study of 13- to 17-year-olds in the US found that participants felt their 'For You' page on TikTok wasn't just for them but about them – a... See more
Lore Oxford • The egostack
adding on the impact of consumption
» related to how do we distinguish what’s our own taste and what’s the taste we’ve merely consumed and adapted as our own?
"If we're all going to live longer, how are we going to fill up those extra 20-30 years?"
We had the incredible privilege of posing this question to one of my favorite thinkers, researcher and professor Jean Twenge whose work is all over the news right now.
Dr. Twenge argues that instead of fitting multiple lifetimes into one (which was my... See more
We had the incredible privilege of posing this question to one of my favorite thinkers, researcher and professor Jean Twenge whose work is all over the news right now.
Dr. Twenge argues that instead of fitting multiple lifetimes into one (which was my... See more
Jasmine Bina • How to Create a High Performance Information Diet
I am only interested in people as long as they are unpredictable to me. If I can predict what you’ll do or say, I’ll lose interest in you rapidly. If you can keep regularly surprising me in some way, forcing me to actually think in unscripted ways in order to respond, I’ll stay interested. It’s reciprocal. I suspect the people with whom I develop... See more
Venkatesh Rao • Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People
t c on TikTok
vt.tiktok.com
Will it be that we define ourselves more by the tools we don't use, or the moments we don't use them?
Starter pack memes reverse engineer the demographic profile: people are composites of products they and similar people have purchased, identified through credit card data and internet browsing behavior tracked across the web.
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
The internet used to be an escape from reality.
Now, reality is an escape from the internet.
In so many ways to live in 2024 is to be subject to a constant and all-out assault on our attention . It’s the ability to attend to anything — a book, another person, ourselves — that is being eroded. I’m increasingly convinced, then, that the next big vector for inequality is around this most fundamental of human capabilities. The elites are going... See more