Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
post-algorithm;
an era of accidental friendships, a generation that refuses to be sorted
algorithm is knowingly manipulated as a wayfinder; algorithm becomes tool for autonomy
nametwitter.comthe illness was not just my own; the silence around suffering was our society’s pathology.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
wtf is: researching by katarina — https://www.are.na/wtf-is-living/wtf-is-research
instagram.comA nation that once exported productivity now exports volatility, and when that too fails, it begins to export its pain .
Chor Pharn • Human Surplus and Its Leftovers - By Chor Pharn
We’ve come to believe that people who specialize early and narrowly—like Tiger Woods, who was already on national television golfing at age 2—have an insurmountable advantage. But the research shows that those stories are in fact the rare exception en route to success, and typically confined to repetitive domains, in which work next year will look... See more
Slate • General Education Has a Bad Rap
If we want a better democracy, we need the same for community entrepreneurs. For too long now, these people have done this work without being paid, recognized, or even acknowledged. On Facebook, they are called group admins; on Reddit, they are moderators. But they aren’t just admins or moderators. They are leaders. They are entrepreneurs - forging
... See moreNew_ Public • Celebrating the labor that holds up our democracy: the community entrepreneur
If Reddit were a co-op, or even just a regular nonprofit, it could probably operate usefully forever. Oh well! At least we still have Quora, where someone asked “ I am facing 30 years to life in federal prison. Should I take some clothes to prison? ” and every response told them to flee to Mexico
Today in Tabs • When You Start By Wrapping Your Arms Around These Powerful Tabs, Literally Everything Is Possible
One major benefit of subcultures is that they open up necessary space when the mainstream becomes too crowded. Now, thanks to the internet, everything is supposedly a subculture—the mainstream has supposedly broken into a thousand fragments. One would assume this creates more room for everyone to spread out, literally and figuratively, but even
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