Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
In contrast, the improvisational spirit lives inside that gap, and it can be surprisingly full of ingenuity and joy even when the situation is dire. As something we share with our nonhuman brethren, the capacity to form new responses is how you know you’re alive, today, here. So when my mum says, “whatever happens, happens,” what I hear is not
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What they don’t see, and what we continue to experience, is that while collaborating can be hard, it’s also a more rewarding, fruitful, and uplifting experience than doing things on our own. Yes, it’s true that groups of people collaborating will run into some well-known problems, but it’s also true that we see ways to make that experience better,
... See moreYancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
Just to wrap this up and give a bit of a TL;DR: we are shaped by our introduction to skills in rather nefarious ways. The getting started kit is the worst way to get into something because it takes us down a path of likely mediocrity, and doesn’t encourage us to pick up the tools that fit our skills and interests as we discover what those skills... See more
Andrew Lovett-Baron • Avoiding Kits
Reputation, quality of work, social capital and experience are already being used by DAOs to make decisions about how to treat specific members, but if these qualities could be inferred from an on-chain record, DAOs would become more autonomous and permissionless. Decisions could be made automatically, such as unlocking new spaces or granting... See more
Ben Dobbrick • The Otters go Soulbound
As Anaïs Nin wrote, “When we go deeply into the personal, we go beyond the personal. We achieve something that is collective.”
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy
“I shall act always to increase possibility.” — Heinz von Foerster
There’s real damage to be made when famous faces, as well as people in our day-to-day lives, make an effort to conceal how nepotism benefited their career trajectories. Often, working class fans idolise the supposed trajectories of celebrities as a symbol that hard work can achieve anything – if they can do it, anyone can.
The Face • What TikTok’s obsession with nepotism babies says about class
Positive Friction encourages an alternative design practice in order to restore human agency within online spaces