Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
The organizing principle of the modern world is pain. To build a world that is truly sustainable and just, pleasure needs to replace pain and become the new organizing principle of our future .
Pleasure Activism
Students need more exposure to the way everyday things work and are made.
“Making mathematics mandatory,” wrote Hacker, “prevents us from discovering and developing young talent. In the interest of maintaining rigor, we’re actually depleting our pool of brainpower.”
In a paper titled “A Mathematician’s Lament,” Paul Lockhart rails against the modern... See more
“Making mathematics mandatory,” wrote Hacker, “prevents us from discovering and developing young talent. In the interest of maintaining rigor, we’re actually depleting our pool of brainpower.”
In a paper titled “A Mathematician’s Lament,” Paul Lockhart rails against the modern... See more
The Atlantic • Against Algebra
In the city, meanings and connections are multiplied until we can’t see them at all. In the country or the wilderness, we may feel that our actions take place outside the grid of human meaning entirely.
phil christman • Small-Town USA
Museums of the future Should every city or nation have physical spaces dedicated to exploring the future, combining experiences (using virtual reality), visualisations, games and ‘objects of the future’? We could imagine a new cadre of curators and orchestrators who become skilled in helping people to explore possible future worlds.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Yes, squads are friends empowered by digital tools, but this is much more than new chat apps and online "community platforms." This is the movement. Squaddom is about new ways of being together, learning, and making meaning in an increasingly complex world. Squads are groups fueled by vibes, memes, and values, but they are not mindless swarms.... See more
otherinter.net • Squad Wealth
But the strange work ethic the rich have devised seems highly relevant for our understanding of burnout as a cultural phenomenon, especially as it spreads beyond its traditional victims—doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, anti-poverty lawyers—and courses through the ranks of knowledge workers more generally.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
November and December aren’t winter. They’re Locking. Next comes winter, January and February. Boy! Are they ever cold! What comes next? Not spring. ‘Unlocking’ comes next. What else could cruel March and only slightly less cruel April be? March and April are not spring. They’re Unlocking.
Jason Kottke • Kurt Vonnegut: “There Are Six Seasons Instead of Four”
If democracy consists of citizens deciding, collectively, what ought to be done, then the manner through which they persuade one another determines nearly everything that follows. And that privileges media ecology as the master political science. Some of its foremost practitioners, like Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman, sensed, far better than... See more
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic. —Hazel Henderson1