Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
Agalia Tan
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Kiser’s background is in news products — he previously worked as a product manager for Spin , Forbes and Business Insider — and he’s fascinated by how the way information is packaged shapes our experience of it. He’s been particularly influenced by the writer and photographer Craig Mod, who in a 2012 essay coined the concept of “edges”: the ways... See more
How to stay sane *AND* informed
Eichhorn responds to the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's 1970s concept of "cultural capital": the fluency in forms of high culture that could bestow social status and help members of elite classes to identify one another.
Cultural capital is knowing that cashmere is a more aspirational fabric than cotton or that a Jackson Pollock painting is much
... See moreLife is something to delight in, not to be dealt with
— Meditations for Mortals, pg. 164
defluxing isn’t about watering down. It’s about finding the heart of an idea. By iterating, adapting, and remixing, we find ways to invite others into the conversation. It is an exercise in gardening — engaging the world one practical, intuitive insight at a time.
🌀🗞 The FLUX Review, Ep. 167
The most common emotion people retreat from is some sort of identity insecurity. The most common emotion people retreat to is simmering resentment towards those who provoke the insecurity, which often drives a complex redemption-and-revenge life story.
Venkatesh Rao • Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People
Not even our sleep is safe. Nintendo recently announced “Alarmo,” a very cute alarm clock that uses motion tracking to play different sounds from various Nintendo games to help getting out of bed easier. Move to the left, and the sounds of Super Mario coins ring. Move again, more coins clanging. By the time you get out of bed, that little Italian... See more
Julia Alexander • Here's What the Fight for Your Attention Really Looks Like
pretty sure we had this one as an idea for a supermarket campaign hahaha
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a