Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
God, I mean, I think capitalism has infiltrated almost everything on the internet at this point. I think the reason a lot of people are spending more time in group chats and discord servers is because it's a reaction to all of this. They want spaces to express themselves that are free from algorithms and brands.
Embedded • How Taylor Lorenz Went From Tumblr Queen to Internet Historian
Our thinking mind is limited by two Big Bad Bottlenecks: our attention and our working memory.
Ness Labs • Cognitive bottlenecks: the inherent limits of the thinking mind
Let’s see how this great gathering unfolds… 😏
This is what I mean when I say, gathering need not be complicated (or maybe folding a fitted sheet is, depending on who you ask). A simple and hilarious conceit and I’m so here for it. (Pssst: the sheet doesn’t matter, it’s the spectacle.)
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priyaparkerinstagram.comTikTok, like all social media, is a similarly volatile space. Your FYP algorithm is supersensitive; “vibes” are constantly “shifting” for occult and obscure reasons; everything is temporary; and your chief means of expressing preference is to either click or keep scrolling. For this reason I suspect that the experience of electoral volatility is
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Consumer Social and
First definition: Something is real if it makes a difference.
David Chalmers • Our Virtual Lives Are Real Lives
There’s a reason, for instance, that TikTok has declared not just a handful of but twenty-something aesthetics to be the next big thing in 2022: It’s because TikTok’s bread and butter is creating microtrends that flare up fast and die out faster. Whether or not they actually last (or exist in any meaningful way at all) is besides the point; as... See more
Rebecca Jennings • Fashion is just TikTok now
Roblox is not an overnight success. We’ve been around for about 15 years. The vision of our founder was something he called human co-experience: people doing things together in synchronous 3D spaces. I think people call that the metaverse now, but it’s always been what we focus on. A lot of people called us a game company, for years. We kind of... See more
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
The best thing that can be done to a problem is to solve it. False. The best thing that can be done to a problem is to dissolve it, to redesign the entity that has it or its environment so as to eliminate the problem.