Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Ambition isn’t the problem, attachment is.
You can chase big goals without losing your lightness.
You can care deeply without carrying it all.
The most grounded people I know hold both:
focus and play
drive and... See more
instagram.comThe latest in a long line of belief systems that encourage people to see a lack of society-defined ‘success’ as the result of personal failure.
Phoebe Lovatt • Good Vibes Only™
Now, if your platform is in good health, with a vibrant, creative user base, and your recommendation algorithms do a good job of quickly assessing your users’ preferences, then it might work out for you. But if your user base is slowly atrophying due to the network decay I described above, or if your algorithms are pretty mediocre at understanding... See more
Charlie Warzel • Welcome to Geriatric Social Media
The proliferation of “-core” style nicknames reminds me of what Kaitlyn Tiffany described as a staple of digital life, dating back to MySpace, Tumblr, and BuzzFeed quizzes: the urge to identify with esoteric aesthetic subcultures such as “cottagecore” and “romantic academia” and “pastel goth” because you want to locate your niche and belong... See more
No Bells • Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
Some centers will be receding while others increase in intensity. Even those who crave strict, unchanging routines must adapt their routines to life changes; the deeply lazy are constantly adjusting. Sometimes a behavioral center slips away gradually; sometimes it disappears suddenly. The remaining structure must be adapted, through gradual... See more
Sarah Perry • Deep Laziness
we need permission to unsubscribe from a life where every thought is for sale, every opinion a performance, and every move an attempt to keep up.
In Defense of Thinking Small
By community knowledge, I mean beliefs, truths and cures passed down over time.
By solidarity networks, I mean acting with trust, in small self-selecting groups.
By folklore, I mean the ritualistic repetition of the first to build the second.
By solidarity networks, I mean acting with trust, in small self-selecting groups.
By folklore, I mean the ritualistic repetition of the first to build the second.
Sarah Drinkwater • Magic, belief systems + web3
I’ve argued before that culture isn’t stagnating so much as migrating into forms we don’t have the language to recognize yet — internet personalities as continuous works of art, TikTok as digital vaudeville, and aesthetic curation as a kind of immersive storytelling.