Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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When access to knowledge is no longer scarce, the constraint shifts from getting answers to framing the right questions.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
Curiosity is not random inquiry. It is first and foremost, an astute understanding of constraints.
A well-framed inquiry concentrates resources and points effort toward high-leverage targets.
If you haven’t crafted the right path of inquiry, you could sit with an LLM and waste time and resources wandering through plausible answers without a clear destination.
Without the right path of inquiry, abundance flips from asset to liability. Cognitive bandwidth, which itself is scarce, is wasted in evaluating irrelevant options.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
How calligraphy shaped Steve Jobs and Apple’s typographic legacy - TypeRoom
A charismatic brand includes a dedication to aesthetics. Why? Because it’s the language of feeling, and in a society that’s information-rich and time-poor, people value feeling more than information.
Marty Neumier • The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design
Instead, when writing newsletters or pitching articles, mine your own work for content. Dig deep into your own subject matter, expanding on some details, reframing others, and sharing parts of your research that didn’t make the final cut. Establish your expertise, your passion, and your continued critical engagement in the debates surrounding your... See more
How to talk about your work in public
The role of planning/strategy is point imagination and resources (time, people etc) in the right tasks that matter (so that they can have maximum effect). Identifying and articulating the task with imagination and rigour is at the heart of a planner’s role. It’s the art of choice and point of greatest leverage.
... See moreGreat strategy isn’t about working forwards from backward-looking data in the form of numbers. It’s about working backwards from forward-looking data in the form of ideas.
How the work really gets done
Paradoxically, the illegible is where value is created.
Value emerges when we have to strive to understand meaning and truth. But now, the speed of conversion to commercial value is instantaneous . The metaphorical DRC is in our mouths immediately, without any processing, appreciating, learning, or pairing. The “new” is absorbed and digested in a... See more
Value emerges when we have to strive to understand meaning and truth. But now, the speed of conversion to commercial value is instantaneous . The metaphorical DRC is in our mouths immediately, without any processing, appreciating, learning, or pairing. The “new” is absorbed and digested in a... See more