Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of
... See moreThis is an uncomfortable truth. Retrofitting the beginning to fit the ending sounds like cheating (which it isn’t.) It sounds a bit chaotic (which it is.) It’s not something we speak about in public. It’s not an easy process to sell. It’s creative and intellectual alchemy.
How the work really gets done
As a strategist, if you want rare insight, you need to have access to rare perspectives and those come from people, not publications or posts on social media.
Information Nutrition
Promotional Principles for Creative People
docs.google.com“The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small.”
3-2-1: On progress, friendship, and how to improve your writing
What could be your snow? How might you make the opportunities for care more visible? And what would it look like to create a culture of “yours plus one?”
Yours plus one
The difference today is that in Filterworld, the metrics-the number of likes, the preexisting attention-tend to speak louder than the piece of culture itself. Not only do they act as a measure of success, but they create success, because they dictate what is recommended to and seen by audiences in the first place.
— Filterworld, pg. 132