Keely Adler

The peak of consumerism as performance is Ye x Julia Fox “Date Night,” leading into Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga collab. Life x culture x art x commerce.

That’s not to say that Hype doesn’t impact public perception of science experiments. AI was famously always “ten years away” and “just linear regressions with a fancy name”... until it wasn’t. But AI’s success didn’t depend on getting a lot of people to use not-yet-good-enough chatbots; it depended on keeping a relatively small number of nerds... See more

Stewardship requires measuring systemic health:

Sprint metrics: Cultural relevance, immediate engagement

• Season metrics: Narrative development, trust building

• Generational metrics: Legacy impact, systemic change

Success becomes:

• How deeply does this land?

• How long does it last?

• Does this create more capacity than it consumes?

• What unintended

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To do something well you have to like it.

The influence of commercial consultancies has reinforced this con-servatism, promoting approaches to philanthropy that never question, let alone challenge, power structures or systems, seeking niche solutions rather than structural ones, and backing already proven ideas rather than opening out to new ones. The net effect of these big consultancies

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Where the 20th century built monuments to mastery, the 21st must build metabolisms of care.

This is not simply an engineering challenge; it is a redefinition of what it means to govern, to invest, and to belong. Infrastructure is becoming the operating system of collective life — the medium through which societies sense, interpret, and respond to

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conventional attitudes about work are, without the owners even knowing it, nth-degree imitations of the attitudes of people who've done great things.

In order for design to transform business, it must first transform itself. It must leave behind the language and mindset of engineering. Get past scalability and extensibility. Systems and components. Agility and usability. Usefulness and seamlessness. Efficiency and friction. Data and metrics. Patterns and code.

The digital dominance of the 21st Century has sorted us into our own tailored versions of online reality, where we drown in ads and information. It's overwhelming, noisy, and ephemeral. It's hard to have a simple conversation, let alone align the globe on a future worth building.