Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
If social media platforms want to take on the mantle of being our arbiters of truth—then they have to be punished when people publish outright lies.
Get Matter • Pseudoreality
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And yet this love is a projection. The phone creates a sensation of intimacy without providing true intimacy. On a rational level, we know this; but our actual experience happens in an ambient scroll state. Now there’s a dissonance between feeling like your phone is a home and knowing that it’s not.
Adam Aleksic • Your Phone Is a Fake House
“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself,” Bergson wrote, “and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.” Once again, the seemingly dispiriting message here is actually a liberating one. Since every real-world choice about how to... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Fermentation is ultimately a very hopeful practice because it does not yield immediate gratification. There’s always delayed gratification in fermentation, and so in a quite literal way it’s an investment in the future. If you are despondent and despairing and don’t know if there’s a future, why would you invest your energy into fermenting? It is... See more
Sandor Katz • Fermentation as Metaphor
Countries that used to define themselves through creating bold new institutions no longer do so—there are no recent equivalents to the NHS or the BBC in Britain; no equivalents of NASA or DARPA in the US. In much of academic life, too, you are more likely to succeed by slightly tweaking an established idea than creating a novel one.18
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Epics and lore are not opposed, but orthogonal. History features both, but perhaps the twentieth century taught us to overvalue the epic aspect and undervalue the lore aspect.
Venkatesh Rao • Epics vs. Lore
The thing is, there will always be more on the to-do list. There will always be people who need you, things to accomplish, deadlines to meet. You will never find the time to get into a hammock for an entire day and truly collapse into the knowledge that you got it all done. The best time to rest is today. You do have time, you do have the tools,... See more
Medium • This Is How You Rest
The most authentic, fleshed out, truly female-centered narratives (e.g. Little Women and My Brilliant Friend) all include Time as a main character.
Women exist in cycles, phases, periods, seasons. A snapshot in time of a woman is not what she once was or what she will be. We are maidens, mothers, and matriarchs. We... See more
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