The version of Acela corridor identity that has been cranked past its natural limit into exhausting, almost self-satirizing overload. Hyper acela is the person who name-drops three senators in one sentence, who has three Substacks and two podcasts and a newsletter, who treats every social gathering as a networking event and every conversation as an opportunity to workshop their next pitch. They are technically within the Acela world but they're running at a frequency that makes even their peers tired.
He was hyper acela at the dinner — couldn't stop pivoting every conversation back to his portfolio of policy work.
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