Keely Adler

best examples are people who’ve spent time building skills & expertise, and then can build the network instantly, versus the people who build their network first, and then try to bolt skills / expertise on top.

Watching these shows, there’s a sense of someone whispering look what you made me do. They can’t decide whether their heroes are deluded assholes or low-key aspirational #goals. In some narratives, that sort of ambivalence is compelling; in these shows, it mostly feels hazy, like the ethical compass of the show itself is spinning wildly,

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People are generally pretty lazy. When confronting a challenge, we’ll usually choose the path of least resistance, because evolutionally speaking, the path with the least risk to success is the smartest choice.

If religion has become synonymous with violence or regression or injustice, it’s not just because it is embedded in so many matrices of power. It’s also because the people who are challenging the hegemony and seeking to carve out a different future have been overlooked, erased, or ignored. This is the destructive power of cultural norms.

Quantitative indicators — faulty proxies for qualitative truths — are our primary measure of success, and considerations of life beyond our own have, until now, been largely absent from our day-to-day decision making. What magic might unfold if we just adjust our aperture? And what’s at risk if we don’t?

How people experience the world is changing, with gamers saying that the most attractive element of an immersive game is the story, and with the majority of younger generations playing games, creating a compelling brand story is becoming an increasingly attractive point of differentiation.

When a place rejects you, you never stop wondering whether it’s your fault; the whole memory becomes like a test you wish you could take again, now that you’ve finally studied for it.

When we’re attentive to these series, to their form, their narrative structure, their genre, their history, their cultural context, the dynamics of their production, they reveal themselves to us. (This is, of course, what television studies, as an academic discipline, has always done.) It means we can see concretely what’s unique about a given... See more