Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
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Social media seems to have this intrinsic character of convergence. I talked about that in a previous newsletter. The idea that once you become a part of a digital community, your very participation in that community further optimizes the platform’s convergence upon a single set of ideas, idioms, modes, or what have you.
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Marginalized people are criminalized for spending time outside of gaining capital
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water
Spotify optimised for engagement and brand love without considering how their model would teach an entire generation that intimate behavioural tracking should feel like birthday presents. They didn't just create marketing content - they normalised surveillance capitalism as self-care.
zoe scaman • The Work
Most compelling of all is the evidence that having a capacity for abstraction and the ability to transfer concepts is the key to success in our “wicked” world.
Quartz • To thrive in a "wicked" world, you need range
If DAO membership were represented by more specific units, decisions about the rights, permissions and powers of individual members could be differentiated.
Ben Dobbrick • The Otters go Soulbound
That, more than anything else, feels energizing to me right now. As I’ve written before: Most of the things we need to do to heal the planet and our society are the same things that would heal ourselves. Figuring out how I’m going to live Here makes my life better right now, today. At the same time, it prepares me for a future that feels very
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All four dimensions of the imaginary need to evolve in harmony for imaginative ideas to last; they gather around them meanings and associations and become part of people’s identity. Visions that remain only visions do not survive, but equally, practical ideas that don’t have any supporting superstructure of ideas tend not to thrive because they
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