Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
As a survival strategy, dissociation of this kind is ingenious, serving the precise function for our nervous system that a circuit breaker does for your house. Unfortunately, human minds don’t flip back on so easily. When they do, the process of “reintegration”—reconciling the traumatic memories with the preexisting self—can be painful.
Jayson Greene • The Rise of Dissociation Music
... See moreMost critically, these roles tend to be self-reinforcing. Organizations using fear-based future narratives often develop risk-averse cultures that further reinforce defensive positioning. Conversely, organizations with aspirational future narratives tend to attract optimistic, innovation-minded talent that strengthens their future-positive culture.
Patrick Tanguay (Sentiers) • 📡 No.338 — Is AI Progress Slowing Down? ⊗ Future Orientation ⊗ the Power of Critical Sensemaking
I want us to resist absolutist or binary claims about religion (ie: “Religion is violent!” “Religion caused all the major wars in the world!”) that release other agents of power from their accountability in the world’s problems.
Religiously Blonde • Do We Really Want to Give God Away?
57% of Gen Z gamers feel they’re able to self-express more openly to others in a game than they do in real life. The metaverse impacts the way Gen Z gamers think, socialize, and consume every day.
Business Wire • Razorfish Study Finds 52% of Gen Z Gamers Feel More Like Themselves in the Metaverse than in Real Life
The Otter Protocol does not directly tackle governance, but provides an additional primitive that governance frameworks can take into account. Governance power over specific domains could be distributed to holders of specific badges, or governance weight could increase based on ownership of a badge.
Ben Dobbrick • The Otters go Soulbound
Generations of intellectuals have turned away from the future, dispirited at best, cynical at worst.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
“Louvre heist aesthetic” is the rare TikTok we can enjoy guilt-free. As Caity Weaver put it: “How nice to read about a heist rather than a massacre.”
Chor Pharn • Human Surplus and Its Leftovers - By Chor Pharn
Because of symbiosis, ecosystems can sustain themselves almost indefinitely.
