Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Semioticians rely on a certain amount of gut and leaps of faith beyond obvious logic. An advertised balance of science and art, and a recognition of a uniquely trained “sense” helps showcase rigor and justify the role this work can provide.
Matt Klein • The Radical Potential of Semiotics & Cultural Strategy
To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?
Georgina Reid • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground
Razorfish Study Finds 52% of Gen Z Gamers Feel More Like Themselves in the Metaverse than in Real Life
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Instagram disruptors like BeReal, Poparazzi, Dispo, and Locket have promised a more authentic, less curated reality. But even authenticity, over time, becomes performative; “photo dumps” become carefully-crafted compilations of artsy images that show us in a good light (“Look how this blurry photo implies I’m too busy having fun to take non-blurry... See more
Rex Woodbury • The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology
The tone of action in context, alters possibility.
The possibility pesticide of rationality within the existing system will likely monocrop the awaiting ecology of potentialities.
The familiar is not the only way, but it is in fact, the way to keep the unnamed unfound, unseen possibilities in exile. That which does not make sense can be called
... See moreTo avoid doomism, Focus 20 percent on problems, and 80 percent on solutions. He’s come to understand that there’s a lifetime of work ahead, and concentrates on grassroots movements and affecting local change. “That work fulfills me,” he said, “and keeps me optimistic about a future in which we can still survive and thrive.”
New York Times • ‘OK, Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late
collective thinking behaviors are treated as epiphenomena at best, and pathologies at worst.