Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
After 18 months of learning and filtering with that lens, there were three changes made possible by blockchains that I couldn’t unsee:
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • After Crypto
Our knowledge of winter is a fragment of childhood, almost innate.
Katherine May • Wintering
Introverts are able to spend a lot of time with an area or activity of interest. They are repositories of specific knowledge, ready to travel the world to obtain a coveted item or experience, and passionately talk about their latest acquisitions.
Ana Andjelic • Personal branding for people who hate personal branding
Happy Friday! 🌸 What we now call “wellness” is often a repackaging of these traditions—stripped of their cultural, spiritual, and political contexts to fit Western frameworks of credibility, marketability, and whiteness.
This thread explores the epistemic injustice at the root of that shift:
Who gets to be... See more
instagram.comTo me, the key is the identification and redistribution of latent value back to the community through compelling engagement loops, and the encouragement of long-term incentive models for group coordination.
Richard Kim • From Nothing to Something with R.N.G.
It’s this idea that we’re all communicating informally, but at the same time we’ve adopted a lot of the practices of public figures or like, I dunno, brands. And that is a really weird and stressful thing.
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
through curiosity can reveal people to themselves. But formal education largely remains a vocational enterprise in which, Sir Ken argues, we are being steered away from the things we love “on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that.” Love has been rationalized out of the system of education, but it is central to the deeply personal
... See moreSeth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
ON WRITING INSPIRATION:
Anything is interesting if you’re honest enough. Anything. I cannot stress this enough. You could tell me how you decided what to eat for dinner last night, and if you did it with the right combination of lucidity and fearlessness—unpacking the little idiosyncrasies behind why you think the way you do and the backstories... See more
Anything is interesting if you’re honest enough. Anything. I cannot stress this enough. You could tell me how you decided what to eat for dinner last night, and if you did it with the right combination of lucidity and fearlessness—unpacking the little idiosyncrasies behind why you think the way you do and the backstories... See more
Haley Nahman • #104: On Red Scare, finding writing inspiration, and America’s hero fetish
while shared stories and singular sources of truth are comforting, they also run the risk of over-simplification and easy-to-ignore exclusion. On the face of it, it feels like the most dystopian of our existential themes — more fear than question. But what if there’s a potential upside to decentralized reality? What if the fragmentation of reality... See more