Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
The idea is that it's a system for imagining and executing big projects that actually works. The theory emerges from the intersection of two maxims.
First, there's William Gibson: "The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed."
Then, there's William Faulkner: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
Mashing those together, we get
... See moreHere is the hill I am prepared to die on: we as a culture have to stop believing that the goal is to eliminate discomfort. It’s time to dig deeper and learn to use these states rather than be used by them. To recognize that sometimes, feeling like shit isn't a bug in the system — it's a feature.
Grief is so metabolizing, but we shouldn’t wait for death to access it. We should actively build grief rituals for ourselves like we would any other mental health practice.

Gen Z and
In practice, it is not possible for the technical layer to be resilient while the social layer is not, as the social and technical dynamics of infrastructure are co-constitutive.