Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
fashion and
this leads to static incentives in a dynamic world, and a sense of mindless repetition.
stealing • Retrofuturism
For the past decade, social media algorithms rewarded those who fed the machine. The more content you produced, the more views and engagement you received. But a noticeable shift has emerged. Online consumption among Gen Z and millennials is declining. Consumers are no longer eager for their lives to exist entirely through... See more
instagram.comRhythm eases people's interactions by synchronizing brain waves (Escoffier, 2015). Rhythmic sound not only coordinates the behavior of people in a group but also coordinates their thinking. That is, music can create a feeling of group cohesion and agreement.
Shahram Heshmat • Four Ways Music Strengthens Social Interactions
underneath the hood, Mad Realities aspires to be something more: a platform for user-owned content. YouTube for web3.
Rex Woodbury • Mad Realities and the Rise of User-Owned Content
underpinning the zero-friction society is an insidious belief: that every instant that we spend with other people without transacting is a transaction cost getting in the way of efficient market exchange.
Friction: The Cure for a Society Bored to Death
What is TikTok couture? It is a (sort of rude) way to describe the coalescence of trends that materialize on TikTok, whether from teenagers experimenting with clothes they’ve thrifted from their local charity shop, from older folks revisiting the subcultural styles of their youth, or from professional and amateur trend watchers combining aesthetic... See more
Rebecca Jennings • Fashion is just TikTok now
Not just from hours or deadlines, but from the mismatch between the work they know they could be doing and the work they're actually asked to do.