Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Two-thousand years ago, concepts of work and leisure were associated with servitude and freedom, respectively. In Ancient Greece, explains Aeon, most of the labour was outsourced to slaves, while wealthier parts of society pursued other activities. “Leisure was an active state of mind. Good leisure meant playing sports, learning music theory,... See more
Aysha Imtiaz • The way we view free time is making us less happy
In my experience, the way you end up doing good in the world has very little to do with how good your initial plan was.
Nate Soares • Dive in
@TaylorLorenz I say this about too many things, but it's hypernormalization. It's a large-scale effort to pretend that we returned to 2019 when we haven't. And, at its most benign, it just makes life very surreal. But at its toughest, it means we can't actually understand the world anymore.
Ryan Brodericktwitter.com“If I told someone to be more vulnerable in an essay or book, what I would mean is that not everything the reader needs is making it onto the page,” I wrote to her. “You want people to understand and relate to your story, not just intellectually but viscerally—but there are certain tools and information you have to give them to do that.
Jess Zimmerman • A Cow with a Hole in It
Stories are thought experiments that cut through contemporary interests and structures to imagine an alternative world. Stories help us understand the current system but also provide the tools to investigate how that world is changing and reveal solutions to work to a different futures.
Marjolein Pijnappels • Designing the Future Using Science Fiction
Meanwhile, a fixation on honesty continues to pervade popular arts discourse, music included. Indie scenesters have historically been the ones to agitate most over authenticity, but in the golden age of confessional pop music, the aesthetic concern with honesty isn’t limited to subculture anymore. Direct access to artists’ personal lives seems more
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We live in a time where, in the words of social theorist Roberto Unger, we are governed by people who ‘confuse conformism with realism’.6
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The last piece was holdback. We kept 10 percent of this pie held back, so that [a committee of 14 members from Camp Chaos, including team stewards, music guides, and core operations members] can make the decision to flow value to emergent and undervalued work that was less visible in camp and therefore did not receive [as much].
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • Inside the Internet's First 77-Artist "Headless Band"
Epstein looks at multi-decade research about forecasting and how specialists constantly can’t predict with any accuracy while generalists manage to do better. In short; people who are broadly curious, and interested in multiple fields, fare better and adjust their models more easily when proven wrong.