Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Instead of asking an implicitly judgmental question like, "Is this a person with high or low potential?" we encouraged managers to ask themselves questions like,
"What growth trajectory does each person on my team want to be on right now?" or "Have I given everybody opportunities that are in line with what they really want?" or "What growth
... See moreAll emotions are useful for writing except for bitterness .
Good writing requires the consideration of other minds—after all, words only mean something when another mind decodes them. But bitterness can consider only itself. It demands sympathy but refuses to return it, sucks up oxygen and produces only carbon dioxide. It’s like sadness, but stuck... See more
Good writing requires the consideration of other minds—after all, words only mean something when another mind decodes them. But bitterness can consider only itself. It demands sympathy but refuses to return it, sucks up oxygen and produces only carbon dioxide. It’s like sadness, but stuck... See more
Adam Mastroianni • 28 slightly rude notes on writing
Expert judgment only seems automatic because it channels the 10,000 hours of reps they’ve done before. In fact, AI may soon have better taste than you because it’s trained on that data. Humans, well, you better study up
Jasmine • are you high-agency or an NPC?
taste is cultivated
Who we choose to orbit defines, over time, the texture and colour palette of our becoming. Love becomes a technology of transformation, a living interface between selves. To love well is to take part in someone else’s unfolding, even as they take part in yours.
maja • Some Parts of You Only Emerge for Certain People
love and dating and RT
We very often do not have the time to create what we need by ourselves. It’s reasonable to ask who on Earth is expected to return our emails or make our dinners while we wile away our time crafting. We’ve increased the distance between ourselves and the things we need or want—and also made for ourselves a steeper learning curve for meeting our own... See more
Redefining "Handy" and Learning How to Make Things
You need to let yourself have time! The effects are intangible but so so important
WeTransfer is a breakthrough brand because it has ignored conventional brand thinking. It operated for years without a “brand book” and instead thought of itself as an artist and expressed itself accordingly. WeTransfer has interests, friends, hobbies, things that it’s inspired by, and those things have changed over time. Like a person, your tastes... See more
Michael Fitzsimmons • How do you build a brand people love?
If you think someone is normal, you don’t know them very well. Normalcy is a fiction. Your job is to discover their weird genius.
