Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
We still need to live in some sort of recognition that humans can't hive themselves off into cities and pretend that nature happens outside the city, and inside the city is some fantastically controlled biome over which humans have dominion. That's not the way that the planet or ecology works.
Matthew J. Haugen • Interview: Raj Patel on agroecology, reparative approaches, and land reform
Paradoxically, preserving optionality can mean saying no to a lot of opportunities and avoiding anything that will prove to be restrictive. We need to look at choices through the lens of the optionality they will give us in the future and only say yes to those that create more options.
Farnam Street • Preserving Optionality: Preparing for the Unknown - Farnam Street
There’s real damage to be made when famous faces, as well as people in our day-to-day lives, make an effort to conceal how nepotism benefited their career trajectories. Often, working class fans idolise the supposed trajectories of celebrities as a symbol that hard work can achieve anything – if they can do it, anyone can.
The Face • What TikTok’s obsession with nepotism babies says about class
1. Access to Networks
Wordcel • How do you build a web3 community the right way
You can’t have a true class liberation effort if the people next to you can’t adequately clock what class folks are really in! There needs to be more education right now than some have realized #foryou #politics #leftist #classwar #fyp
tiktok.comIn the interest of building a narrative (it's no coincidence that history and story are similar words), you take out everything not relevant, and end up with only a small sliver of the entire state of the world at any given time point. Of course, that sliver may contain some breadth, if you're writing a narrative of something large like "the... See more
Étienne Fortier-Dubois • History in the Space-Time Continuum
Figure out where you want your player to spend time critically thinking, and give them meaningful choices there that encourage creative expression.
Alex Kubodera • What is depth and how do you add it to your game?
Ruins have inspired similar kinds of objectification for millennia. For many, they’re visual objects, things to romanticize, fetishize and look at from afar. It’s a simplified way of seeing that lends itself to extraction more than engagement, a kind “over-aestheticization of past eras." Henri Lefebvre explored the phenomenon in 1968, writing that... See more