Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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There is something beautiful in that. MSCHF is the rare company where being true to yourself allows you to make a comfortable living. If the MSCHF thesis turns out to be right—if taste becomes the key competitive advantage in an age where creation is cheap—then aren’t taste-based businesses the best possible outcome for the world? All you have to... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
The embodied cognition researcher and ceramics artist Camilla Groth calls this ‘making sense through the hands.’
Making, for Groth, is ‘a form of thinking through actions, tools, things, and materials.’1 Lambros Malafouris, an archeologist who studies how materials affect the mind, has a sillier name for this — he calls it ‘thinging’:
Making, for Groth, is ‘a form of thinking through actions, tools, things, and materials.’1 Lambros Malafouris, an archeologist who studies how materials affect the mind, has a sillier name for this — he calls it ‘thinging’:
“Cognition and... See more
Jesse Meadows • Why Fast Minds Love Slow Crafts
The first social media babies are adults now. Some are pushing for laws to protect kids from their parents’ oversharing | CNN
edition.cnn.com
“sharenting” — where do you draw the line between the private and public sphere now?
relates to those wedding proposal videos people love sharing now
In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world—in order to set up a shadow world of “meanings.”... See more
Susan Sontag • "Against Interpretation"
About one in 10 PR professionals say their biggest challenge with writing a press release is not having enough newsworthy content to work with.
As D’Angelo put it: “It’s important for PR people to do a clinical assessment of news value before they send something out, because there is so much garbage out there.”
As D’Angelo put it: “It’s important for PR people to do a clinical assessment of news value before they send something out, because there is so much garbage out there.”
Paul Hiebert • Press Releases Have Become Way Too Hyperbolic
To paraphrase Marx, we might hunt for jobs on LinkedIn in the morning, fish for compliments on Instagram in the afternoon, criticize each other on Twitter after dinner, and be as lascivious as we like on Tinder in the late evening, without letting any of these identities define us... Nevertheless, something is lost in this fractionalization of the... See more
David Phelps • People are the New Platforms
This is the 4U Framework from Design Sprint Academy, which helps you make choices by deciding which choices you don’t have to choose in the first place.
a principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something
#215: Do you think of yourself as beautiful?
Beneath the capris and cotton tanks, there’s a deeper desire to return to a time when working out felt fun and accessible rather than expensive and unachievable. “It’s so expensive to buy workout sets, and I feel like people are going back to things that can be accessed on YouTube instead of taking a class,” says Satenstein. (We’ve seen that this... See more
The Vintage-ification of Activewear
vintage activewear gets popular
A new type of self-presentation where we’re adding a little more whimsy