Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Why did Carson feel so strongly the need to proselytize the wonders of wonder? Perhaps she sensed that, without it, an emotional connection with nature would be impossible; without it, the environmental movement had no hope.
inkl • What It Would Take to See the World Completely Differently
Infrastructure in the 21st century must anchor legitimacy not in how much labor it consumes, but in how much future it secures.
Substack • Infrastructure After Permanence: From Monuments of Certainty….
We need bubbliness. We need excitement. We need new ideas. And it’s not that I have any idea what the outcome needs to be. I just know that we can’t keep on doing what we’ve been doing. That we need to shift. We need to adapt because our circumstances are adapting. This is another way in which the metaphor of fermentation really is powerful because... See more
Sandor Katz • Fermentation as Metaphor
The nepotism babies community on TikTok is more than just a digital fad, and is “part of a wider trend,” explains Ahmed. “Of social justice, which has been going on since the beginning of the millennium. Young people have had enough of an unlevel playing field”.
The Face • What TikTok’s obsession with nepotism babies says about class
curiosity and
The question of impact is my favorite. If the people doing the impacting are tired and sick and frustrated and have all these needs that are not being met, what good is that impact? The quality of work that we can do for each other depends on the quality of care that we’re experiencing and cultivating for ourselves. I can’t say that enough.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
All projects become memes, and then all memes become products. But the urge to celebrate the thing you love, and to communicate to others about the thing you love, is annoyingly human.
Celia Mattison • Deeper Into Smells
[New data work alert!] Do you recall the feeling of taking a dirt path, away from paved routes? 👣
Look out for 𝑨 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈, an upcoming artwork and data storytelling project which draws on fieldwork around Singapore and personal reflection in an attempt to plot how, why, and where we... See more
instagram.comPodhorzer told me this regional variation is “only surprising to the extent you believe that age explains almost everything about voters’ partisanship. But if you understand that the neighborhood you grew up in, the parents you have, the schools you went to, and the general politics that you are introduced into is a big factor, it shouldn’t be
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