Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
"The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank." — Steven Johnson
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In a highlights reel of the past six years we’ve had: #MeToo, Brexit, Trump, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, the Capitol riots, Sarah Everard, Sabina Nessa, Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry, the Covid-19 pandemic, the cost of living crisis, #partygate, the protests against SARS in Nigeria, the escalation of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the Taliban... See more
marie-claire chappet • ‘What’s the point?’ syndrome, and why we all feel so disconnected right now
Where the 20th century built monuments to mastery, the 21st must build metabolisms of care.
This is not simply an engineering challenge; it is a redefinition of what it means to govern, to invest, and to belong. Infrastructure is becoming the operating system of collective life — the medium through which societies sense, interpret, and respond to
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Finally, to repeat one more time: productivity in the wrong direction isn’t worth anything at all. Think more about what to work on.
Sam Altman • Productivity
Constantly absorbing and commenting on things that have just happened sounds to me like a recipe for feeling powerless. Online, I frequently feel both stuck in the past but presented with a grim projection of the future. There is very little focus on the present, which is a place where we derive agency. We can act now.
Charlie Warzel • How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star
our spectrum of leveraged surrealism: there’s the shadowy and ominous, the whacky and frivolous, and the nonsensical and untethered. Twin Peaks, The Eric Andre Show, and Tiger King, all surreal, reflect back unique, convoluted stories. To deal with our moment, there’s no discrimination in the dreams.
Victoria Buchanan • Vol.17: Victoria Buchanan: Surrealism, World Saving Luxury + Fractional Work
At its heart, belief magic is a combination of community knowledge + solidarity networks + folklore.
Sarah Drinkwater • Magic, belief systems + web3
while critical thinking is studied, disciplined, and deliberate, big concepts, especially online, are often open-ended, malleable, and directionless. It’s not that the two are incompatible. It’s that big ideas without critical thought tend to stay shallow. To grow a thought to its full maturity and make it truly yours requires time, substance, and
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