Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Sherry Turkle made a provocative observation in her 2016 book Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. She claimed that it takes seven minutes for a conversation to really get good. In those first seven minutes, participants are mostly giving standard answers to one another’s questions. However engagened and genuine they may be,... See more
What Brands Can Learn from the Beckham Saga
- Don’t deliver a story, start one
Gen Z treats information as improv material. Drop seeds and tempt them to interpret, remix and expand, rather than just consume. - Truth is a group project
When everything feels like a PR strategy, truth can’t simply be claimed. Let multiple perspectives coexist and show
Divided = Attention: What the Beckham Saga Reveals About Modern Media
The expected reflex in our generation’s female friendships is to immediately validate and emotionally coddle, no matter what. Everyone wants the village, but nobody wants to be a villager.
Maia Zelkha • The Female Loneliness Epidemic
have we all become narcissists?
time is richer than just unfolding seconds. It’s textured, charged with emotional valence and energy that are arguably more indicative metrics to consider besides its objective duration. In its focus on the quantitative measure, it forgets the subjective quality of time – otherwise known as kairos – that is not measured, but experienced in deep... See more
in this world, you measure time in emotional valence.
when creating vector, i thought of... and seeds
people aren’t paying for the creative work that people actually wanna do!
sometimes it’s better to not know the rules, coming in like “you can’t do that you can’t do that”
If AI chatbots and AI-powered search results are summarizing everything for you, why would you go to a website? And if we all stop going to websites, what’s the incentive to put new content on the web? What’s going to stop shady characters from flooding the web with AI-generated spam to try and game these systems? And if we succeed in choking the... See more
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
the ouroboros
When did life become a landmine of possible performative gestures?
instagram.com • Psalm 27:1-2 Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the
WHEN REVIEWING WORK, THINK IN THEMES. Let the CD worry about plot holes.