Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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In this uncertainty, [the other] Anu argues, we see stability as the ultimate dream: “Ambition is reorienting from limitless ascension to find solid ground first.” For most, money is the logical path to stability. Some of it ensures basic needs are met. A lot of it offers security to weather whatever comes next (which nobody seems to really know).
stability as the dream
American journalist and intellectual Walter Lippmann wrote, “For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance. We are not equipped to deal with so much subtlety, so much variety, so many permutations and combinations. And although we have to act in that environment, we have to reconstruct it on a
... See moreIn this landscape, resonance isn’t about universality. It’s about strategic specificity—making things that speak directly to a subculture, and sideways to everyone else.
The best ideas don’t scale in size. They scale in dimensionality.
They feel intimate to one group, intriguing to another. They read as obvious to some, occult to others. They’re... See more
The best ideas don’t scale in size. They scale in dimensionality.
They feel intimate to one group, intriguing to another. They read as obvious to some, occult to others. They’re... See more
women’s closeness in the past— even up until a decade or two ago— was measured by endurance, obligation, and willingness to show up for the other person for life’s joys or hardships. By contrast, today’s aesthetic of women’s closeness, at least within the mainstream, has been flattened into a fantasy of constant emotional fluency and “softness.” It... See more
Maia Zelkha • The Female Loneliness Epidemic
friendship and RT
Friends With Benefits is a new type of cultural institution driving the adoption of emerging tech. Forged on the internet, FWB is a group of 5,500+ global members with a combined, cross-channel audience of 100K+ cultural producers, emerging tech builders, and early adopters. We partner with infrastructure companies, consumer brands, protocols, and... See more
Artist In Residence Open Call
Blame your tools
Blame the clients. And blame the conditions.
But then, you’re on the hook to get better tools, find better clients and work in better conditions.
It’s not convenient, but it’s possible.
If it’s not worth the effort, we can simply accept what we’ve chosen and get back to work.
Blame the clients. And blame the conditions.
But then, you’re on the hook to get better tools, find better clients and work in better conditions.
It’s not convenient, but it’s possible.
If it’s not worth the effort, we can simply accept what we’ve chosen and get back to work.
Seth's Blog : Blame your tools
Streamer Clavicular wants to spend 100k on a surgery that will take him from 6'2 to 6'6. As an orthopedic surgeon, this surgery will change your life for the worse. You will lose all of your athletic ability and will develop a high risk of injury that will haunt you till your last day.
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Dr. David Abbasi, MDtiktok.comMaterialists
Don’t Leave the Silly Out of the Serious, or the Serious out of the Silly
Sasha Chapin • Making Normal Conversations Better - by Sasha Chapin Making Normal Conversations Better
In investing, higher volatility usually equates to higher possible returns. In today’s world of online expression, we settle for lower expected value, market-level outcomes so as to not ruffle any feathers and not take any outsized risk. We’re basically hoping to allow people to know us enough so that they include us in their passive index of... See more