Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
History holds too many examples of what happens when the masses suddenly wake up to a sense of overwhelming dread
Viviane Zandonadi • How to De-Zombify People
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[Image Description: two black cats sit on a roof and look up at a full moon. 1. in the mood to ask the moon how to engage in revolution 2. in the mood to embrace mystery and commune with my grief 3. in the mood to be guided by my intuition 4. in the mood to dream up a softer, liberated world 5. in the mood to... See more
instagram.comThe sensation is one of wandering aimlessly, picking up and putting down partly-interesting objects with a sense of generalized indifference. I started noticing something else, too: the impulses powering my behavior weren’t even articulated. The reason for checking and scrolling was rarely in response to an actual inquiry.
Lia Purpura • The Ecology of Attention
Indeed, imagination is alive and well in relation to technology: a future is being built where manufactured goods will mainly be grown rather than made, where wars may be settled in a matter of seconds thanks to AI, or where long-standing hopes for the colonisation of space may start to be realised. Technology has repeatedly expanded the space of
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Our understanding of the world is built up of innumerable layers. Each layer is worth exploring, as long as we do not forget that it is one of many. Knowing all there is to be known about one layer — a most unlikely event — would not teach us much about the rest. The integration of the enormous number of bits of information and the resulting vision... See more
The Marginalian • Pioneering Biochemist Erwin Chargaff on the Poetics of Curiosity, the Crucial Difference Between Understanding and Explanation, and What Makes a Scientist
Web3 101 and
3. Permanent agnostic archiving
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • After Crypto
When some of us hear the word community we think of Instagram. We think of Reddit. Or abstract concepts like the LGBT community or mental health communities, nothing real or solid. Which is why whenever someone says something like online communities are a lifeline for young people! I feel like screaming because it’s just so bleak. What have we
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