Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
I want to be realistic about how the mind works today, which is on multiple streams. And this situation isn’t going to change. We can set up full attention as an ideal, but our digital devices are producing a different way of attending.
Dirt • Dirt: Disordered Attention
even in places where there’s more optimism, there are fewer signs of social imagination than in the past.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Algorithmic surveillance aims to ensure that citizens behave in a manner consistent with a society’s core values—as interpreted by the state, in China’s case. But we can think of ours as a private credit system that regulates behavior algorithmically for the purposes of private gain rather than state control. Our version is pernicious in different... See more
José Marichal • Trust an algorithm, or trust your neighbor?
"Where is the edge of me? Where is the edge of you? When I ask, 'How can I be a better person?' — the question carries an illusion that is out of kilter with families, cultures, and histories that we are all responding to. I would rather ask: 'Who can you be when you are with me?' This is a more ecological question."
Nora Bateson, Combining
Chargaff cautions against the blinders with which specialization obscures the full scope of reality:
The Marginalian • Pioneering Biochemist Erwin Chargaff on the Poetics of Curiosity, the Crucial Difference Between Understanding and Explanation, and What Makes a Scientist
In our day-to-day lives, pure enjoyment of nature can seem somehow suspect or unproductive, and the justification of such time spent is often couched in utilitarian or economic terms. Walks are for clearing heads; hikes are good exercise. Carson anticipated this line of thinking. In The Sense of Wonder, she asks rhetorically, “What is the value of... See more
inkl • What It Would Take to See the World Completely Differently
All projects become memes, and then all memes become products. But the urge to celebrate the thing you love, and to communicate to others about the thing you love, is annoyingly human.
Celia Mattison • Deeper Into Smells
Criticism, to me, is ultimately a practice of paying attention.
Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"
Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a Gothic church beaming serenity into you—that is input too.
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to... See more
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to... See more