Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Few people would deliberately lock themselves into an undesirable situation. Yet we often make small, rational decisions that end up removing options over time. This is the tyranny of small decisions.
Farnam Street • Preserving Optionality: Preparing for the Unknown - Farnam Street
Our suffering, our diagnosis and our treatment are far from objective or apolitical. If you are a marginalised person, your experience of all three of these things is likely going to be worse.
Dazed • This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy
With this sort of amenity-rich cocoon, there is a relentless focus on the object, absent of any context or community. The future of mobility is assumed to be car-dependent, while a vision based more on public transportation is thought to be old-fashioned. But isn’t planning for the car the thing that is most out of date?
Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda
Product Mistakes that Apply to Careers: focusing on acquisition instead of retention (focusing on networking instead of relationships & reputation). Or working in a space that doesn’t get more valuable over time (e.g working in a dying industry), or building another “me-too” product without differentiation (not taking enough career risk). Choosing... See more
Substack • See your Career as a Product
Tsing encourages us to look beyond those simplistic narratives, and to ask what else ruins might allow to emerge. As portals to past realities, ruins have the capacity to cultivate connection across history, geography, and culture.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
Gen Z and
The word complex comes from the Latin root plectere: to weave, entwine. In complex systems, many simple parts are irreducibly entwined, and the field of complexity is itself an entwining of many different fields.
Noah Brier • The Complexity Edition
We must build data infrastructures that embody multiple ways of knowing and understanding our world, and that help us advance both ecological and social ends, before corporations conquer this space for themselves.
Holly Jean Buck • Decarbonization as a Service
Collaboration doesn’t preclude commercialization. And participation — whether driven by a project’s fans or members — is an essential element to any long-term worldbuilding project.