Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Contributions to the squad are positive sum. And in return for their contribution, members have access to an expanded set of opportunities, claims on future economic flows and guarantees backed by the group. By risking together, a scrappy group can gain access to multiplicative yields—the path to SQUAD WEALTH.
otherinter.net • Squad Wealth
In so many ways to live in 2024 is to be subject to a constant and all-out assault on our attention . It’s the ability to attend to anything — a book, another person, ourselves — that is being eroded.
David Mattin from New World Same Humans • New Week #138
[New data work alert!] Do you recall the feeling of taking a dirt path, away from paved routes? 👣
Look out for 𝑨 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈, an upcoming artwork and data storytelling project which draws on fieldwork around Singapore and personal reflection in an attempt to plot how, why, and where we... See more
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If you cannot gain exposure at your day job, try to get some exposure outside of it. Network actively. You don't have to have an audience of thousands for an audience to be worthwhile -- for landing a new job, having an audience of one hiring manager is a darn sight better than having no audience at all. Blog and collect an email list. It's old and... See more
kalzumeus.com • Don't End the Week With Nothing
As organizers, we are builders in an era of collapse. Our work is set against all probability—and it is in that space of cherished improbability where our art will be made, where our joy will be found, and where our ingenuity will fashion ways of living and caring for each other, even as the ground shifts beneath our feet. Life will be a scramble,
... See moreKelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
Joseph Awuah-Darko, a 28-year-old Ghanaian artist and entrepreneur, announced on Instagram in early December that he wanted to die. His battles with bipolar disorder had crushed his will to live, he said, so he had moved to the Netherlands to pursue medically assisted death.
Three days later, he followed up with one of... See more
instagram.comTo be clear, I’d rather live in a world where corporations and billionaires put their money toward some public benefit than live in a world where they operate exactly the same but make zero social impact. That said, adding a charitable initiative to a business model that relies on extractive and harmful practices is a bit like frosting a rotten
... See moreVincent Sanchez-Gomez • The Case for a Values-Oriented Approach to Impact
We must build data infrastructures that embody multiple ways of knowing and understanding our world, and that help us advance both ecological and social ends, before corporations conquer this space for themselves.