Agalia Tan

It just means that in an industry where divergent thinking is an advantage, your divergent thinking is pulling from the same sources as your contemporaries.

(This is the “best practices” problem. When a platform or channel tells you what the best practices are, it’s a list of 1) what everyone is going to be doing for the next year, 2) guidelines for... See more

Inexperienced writers tend to seek the recipes for writing well. You buy the cookbook, you take the list of ingredients, you follow the directions, and behold! A masterpiece! The Never-Falling Soufflé!

Wouldn’t it be nice? But alas, there are no recipes. We have no Julia Child. Successful professional writers are not withholding mysterious secrets

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Fighting against catch-up culture isn’t easy because it involves challenging every element of what’s considered “productive” adulthood, where work, personal development and romantic relationships often take priority, while “unproductive” hours lounging around with friends fall by the wayside. It also may involve confronting our addiction to... See more

in choosing who you spend time with you choose who you are.

When I host, plan, or participate in intellectual gatherings, my purpose is always this: I want to escape the condemnation of Margo Roth Spiegelman. I want to talk about “anything that matters.”

Everything done at an agency has several audiences. Bad work happens when you pick the wrong one, and unfortunately, you will be constantly encouraged to pick the wrong one.

In his view, everything society now produced—including science and technology—served industry, not humanity, and thus was increasingly being purposed not to enrich our lives but to psychologically condition us so we wouldn’t resist what was being done to us and to the earth.

consensus theater