Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
In the face of this, organizations can become overly narrow, unable to look at the broader landscape of ideas or simply engage in a sense of play. Therefore, there is a need for organizations to create a space for more undirectedness, which involves thinking along longer time horizons and creating room for randomness and optionality.
arbesman.substack.com • ☞ Outlier Roles in Venture Capital (and other Organizations)
Worldbuilding, for me, was a form of expansive hope—a necessary imagination for being alive.
Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination
For a technology that’s billed as an architecture of the future, crypto is powered by a discourse that’s rooted in the past. Perhaps that’s why so few cryptocurrency-based, Web3-style projects meaningfully address big, future-facing problems. Instead, they seem to want to re-create financial structures that already exist, only with new people at th... See more
The Atlantic • How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star
Twitter subcultures are only a sliver of an expansive social deep web. Beneath this fuzzy graph is SQUAD SPACE, the network of inner-zones where digital microcultures are born: group DMs, Discords, Slacks, Keybases.
Other Internet • Squad Wealth
the way we perceive and value leisure has changed, problematically.
bbc • The way we view free time is making us less happy
Signal shows how values clarity creates strategic optionality. When privacy became culturally important, they didn't need to pivot or rebrand. Their ethical operating system was already optimised for the cultural moment that competitors scrambled to address reactively.
zoe scaman • The Work
One person’s ritual is all but useless to another, especially a really good ritual. This is because the good ones are repeatedly adapted and elaborated in the direction of providing better fit for the particular person – structure-preserving transformations, where the only test of whether the transformation is structure-preserving is subjective fee... See more
Ribbon Farm • Deep Laziness
But what is general knowledge in a world where virtually any information is freely accessible online?
Laura Hartenberger • What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing
All of this is arising inside the long-established paradigm of distinction, of relating to the world as made up of discrete objects — of which each of us is one.
We are trained from infancy in this paradigm; our parents point to things and people and name them, they repeat and insist and take great pains to ensure we see these things as distinct fro... See more
We are trained from infancy in this paradigm; our parents point to things and people and name them, they repeat and insist and take great pains to ensure we see these things as distinct fro... See more