Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
social media has created a mass ability to publish images and curate them. On Tumblr and Pinterest and Are.na, you can group images into categories and comment on them. Through cheaper, consumer-grade media production tools, ideas once restricted to the underground or the zine now have glossy indie magazines, self-burnt mixtapes, and dozens of
... See moreToby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
We hardly notice, because language is water we live in, but words are how we embed meaning, indicate that concepts are juxtaposed or similar or reminiscent, and form our own mental maps of reality. Words are our embeddings, and language is our latent space
Jon Evans • Language Is Our Latent Space
“Imagining good things ahead of us makes us feel better in the current moment,” said Simon A. Rego, the chief psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who has written extensively on the effect of anticipation on mood. “It can increase motivation, optimism and patience and decrease irritability.”
Holly Burns • To Enjoy Life More, Embrace Anticipation
Category Shift Overview
Traditional paradigm: Infrastructure as hard, fixed, spatially bound provision — singular, monumental assets (bridges, power stations, roads, pipelines).
Emergent paradigm: Infrastructure as dynamic, distributed, and temporally adaptive provisioning — a continuous service maintained through autonomous, renewable, and
... See moreSubstack • Infrastructure After Permanence: From Monuments of Certainty….
Third, labels provide their releases a stamp of approval and a context to exist within. The best labels lift their projects up by association.
Yancey Strickler • Rethinking labels: the origins of Metalabel
people seem to be surprisingly bad at using their freedom to feel good, and especially at using it to feel deeply good.
Sarah Perry • Deep Laziness
imagination is an extremely powerful force for change and humanity can build bridges and empower us to create worlds that are more in line with our values. Imagining allows us not just to see a different future but to explore the impacts of it happening
Medium • Rewilding the Imagination
we imagine the digital pluriverse as a space that can make way for a mosaic of communal, alternative, and autonomous cultural and economic worlds.
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
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