Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
much of what gives one’s life meaning stems from accidents, interruptions, and serendipitous encounters: the “off time” that a mechanistic view of experience seeks to eliminate.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing
Bitter bias: The tendency to moralize the work or actions of people who make us feel inferior in some way.
Substack • #93: 5 new terms (that I made up)
Is wonder still possible, given our climate crisis? Wonder implies some degree of leisure and time; it requires slow, sustained, and contemplative attention—a luxury that, perhaps, we can no longer afford.
inkl • What It Would Take to See the World Completely Differently
1. Desire to learn 2. Desire to participate/contribute/build 3. Eager to earn 4. Seeking access to valuable networks 5. Looking for reach/syndication/distribution 6. Building reputation/credibility/status (Leaderboards, Portfolios, etc)
Wordcel • How do you build a web3 community the right way
This depressing observation struck me as one outcome of living on an internet that is stuck in the past. It might seem the other way around: that our fleeting attention is the result of an internet that’s unrelentingly feeding us the now. But my hunch is that people feel stuck or move on because online, these events feel like things that have happe... See more
Charlie Warzel • How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star
There are gaps in the mesh of the everyday world, and sometimes they open up and you fall through them into somewhere else. Somewhere Else runs at a different pace to the here and now, where everyone else carries on. Somewhere Else is where ghosts live, concealed from view and only glimpsed by people in the real world. Somewhere Else exists at a de
... See moreKatherine May • Wintering
Podhorzer told me this regional variation is “only surprising to the extent you believe that age explains almost everything about voters’ partisanship. But if you understand that the neighborhood you grew up in, the parents you have, the schools you went to, and the general politics that you are introduced into is a big factor, it shouldn’t be surp
... See moreThe Atlantic • Is Gen Z Coming for the GOP?
This could look like financing mechanisms for open-source vs. closed-source infrastructure in order to enable community resourcing and abundance, navigating careful partnerships with existing institutions to build polycentric governance in the face of corporate control, and empowering data and platform cooperatives modeled after the worker cooperat... See more
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
This algorithmic repetition isn’t just a fashion trend; it’s the prevailing spirit across multiple cultural domains. What Mull observes about clothes, the critic Ted Gioia has been analyzing in music, where the Spotify era delivers what’s already tested and popular while the opportunities for new artists diminish. Instead of entering a process of d... See more