Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Here 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.
Sara Campbell • Tiny Revolutions №114: F*ck Happiness
3. Permanent agnostic archiving
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • After Crypto
maybe in a society that only promises the limitless, the things we treasure most are, no matter how much we deny them, always limited. Watterson’s is a small, beautiful, contained world with a definite end, not a sprawling and infinite universe. Calvin and Hobbes isn’t omnipresent. It’s an object to seek.
Blaise Lucey • The Death of Calvin and Hobbes
Friedrich Nietzsche once said that our happiness consists of the possession of a non-negotiable truth. Today, we no longer have such non-negotiable truths.
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
"We really have seen an erosion in the employer-employee contract over the last 40 years," she said. "Why are young people being asked to make commitments to employers who no longer uphold their end of the bargain? Young workers don't get to work for a company until they retire. Those kinds of practices don't happen anymore."
Vox • Gen Z does not dream of labor
More anxiety diagnoses lead to more hypervigilance among young people about their anxiety, which leads to more withdrawal from everyday activities, which creates actual anxiety and depression, which leads to more diagnoses, and so on.
Work in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
Like clothes or memes or slang, we try ideas on for a while—put them in shareable graphics, temporarily link them in bio, express them via viral tweet or op-ed, maybe print them on a T-shirt—before putting them aside for something more relevant.
Haley Nahman • #100: New idea trending
a LARPER’s lifestyle is about seeing life from a different angle - not by discussing those angles but by inhabiting them.
Blaise Lucey • The Death of Calvin and Hobbes
our spectrum of leveraged surrealism: there’s the shadowy and ominous, the whacky and frivolous, and the nonsensical and untethered. Twin Peaks, The Eric Andre Show, and Tiger King, all surreal, reflect back unique, convoluted stories. To deal with our moment, there’s no discrimination in the dreams.