Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
it’s wildly fun to pay attention to things. To think about smallness. To look back at the overlooked. But it’s even more wildly fun to do such things and then share in the results of that attention with others.
Devin Kelly • Yanyi's "Detail"
PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM
(in increasing order of effectiveness)
- Constants, parameters, numbers (subsidies, taxes, standards).
- Regulating negative feedback loops.
- Driving positive feedback loops.
- Material flows and nodes of material intersection.
- Information flows.
- The rules of the system (incentives, punishments, constraints).
- The distribution of
donellameadows.org • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
Futures of regenerative scale and shared growth, that combat monoculture through a stronger, broader, and more rooted ecology of adaptation and co-evolution.
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
I’ve been thinking about the ways that capitalism organizes time. Notice its undercurrents in language: “How are you spending your time?” “Don’t waste your time.” “Let’s save time and go this way.”
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water
“Gen Z gamers view the metaverse as a safe place to freely express themselves, experiment with identities, establish friendships, and ultimately create a world they want to live in. It’s important that brands don’t dismiss the metaverse as a passing fad, but view it as a paradigm-shifting trend that’s just getting started.”
Business Wire • Razorfish Study Finds 52% of Gen Z Gamers Feel More Like Themselves in the Metaverse than in Real Life
The changes that take place in winter are a kind of alchemy, an enchantment performed by ordinary creatures to survive.
Katherine May • Wintering
This two-cultures thinking, moreover, distorts the empirical realities of data collection, the challenging work of forcing unruly phenomena to speak in clean, distinct, ideally quantitative phrases
Melanie Feinberg • The Myth of Objective Data
As a concept, fusion stinks of the imperialist instinct to civilize foreign cultures and rehabilitate them into respectability.