Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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The discipline of reality-recognition is the discipline of propriety, and sommeliers have perfected this discipline.
If you want to create value and sustain value in a world of consensus collapse, there are three strategies toward cultivating propriety: 1. build a discipline around knowing what’s real by blending your senses , 2. give matters their... See more
If you want to create value and sustain value in a world of consensus collapse, there are three strategies toward cultivating propriety: 1. build a discipline around knowing what’s real by blending your senses , 2. give matters their... See more
Matt Klein • Reality Somms: How to Cultivate A Discipline of Knowing What’s Real
Here’s what attention lavished on scrolling feels like to me. There’s very little texture, or nap to it—it slides and skids. That brief rise or ping we now know is a jolt of delicious dopamine, feels good and soothing at the outset, but it’s not a sensation that sticks, physiologically or otherwise.
Lia Purpura Published • The Ecology of Attention
networks are heat-seeking missiles for value. Provide the value, and the network is there.
Substack • See your Career as a Product
The rise of the ‘Luxury Worker’
The luxury worker does not compete on volume.
They do not scale by adding headcount.
They scale by increasing the perceived value of their participation. Their work is expensive not because it takes longer, but because it carries the weight of curiosity, curation, and judgment.
In many ways, this inverts the usual... See more
The luxury worker does not compete on volume.
They do not scale by adding headcount.
They scale by increasing the perceived value of their participation. Their work is expensive not because it takes longer, but because it carries the weight of curiosity, curation, and judgment.
In many ways, this inverts the usual... See more
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
it’s no longer products, but humans who are into the status signalling business
If you’re trying to figure out what you’re going to do next, you’re not downshifting, you’re trying to jump straight into your next upshift. I made this mistake. It’s natural. It will take time for your high achiever tendencies to quiet down (this is part of the ending phase). Not knowing what to do next will feel deeply uncomfortable. Sit with... See more
David Spinks • How to Downshift
Summer 24 fanzine
bottegaveneta.com
Writing increases your rate of revelation. This is true irrespective of the subject because writing is a process of reflection, assertion, and iteration.
Writing clarifies your own ideas. Writing begets new ideas too. Writing lets you explore ideas in depth even if you won’t have time to act on them all. Writing shows people how you think and lets... See more
Writing clarifies your own ideas. Writing begets new ideas too. Writing lets you explore ideas in depth even if you won’t have time to act on them all. Writing shows people how you think and lets... See more
Anu • Writer-Builders
It’s true that a farm family of the 1930s had to depend on their material intelligence for survival, while today’s city dwellers and office workers can get away with ignoring their physical environment and making a fine living. Maybe this feels like a sort of progress. But basic necessity is only one side of our relationship to materials. There are... See more