Agalia Tan

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then differentiation is the sincerest form of insult.

I believe publishing my thinking is the best way to discover my true opinion. Even if it’s just in a group text. Writing about anything usually shows me that I didn't know it quite as well as I thought.

Furniture is the heavy things that hold down the corners of your life.

Song has said that although she embraces the escapism inherent in the genre, she included the concrete figure quite deliberately, prodding audiences to talk about money openly even if culturally it’s still considered impolite. “Let’s be realistic about that: It’s not polite to people who don’t want you to know how much money they have,”

I think of experience design as the creation of containers. Spacial, emotional, temporal, behavioral. And for containers to exist, they must have edges. Thresholds between what is, and what is not, the experience.

Spacial: Think the doors between rooms. The fences that enclose these gardens where we play. The changes in environment that signal we... See more

Nintendo Music, on the one hand, is another Nintendo standalone digital product emerging out of the corpses from previous apps including the 2016 social game Miitomo and quirky products like the Power Globe. On the other hand, I fucking love it — and there are four specific reasons why:

1. It creates further reliance on the integrated Nintendo

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