Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Fiction is often really much more useful than lived experience; it takes much less time, costs nothing (from the library), and comes in a manageable, orderly form. You can understand it. Experience just steamrollers over you and you begin to see what happened only years and years later, if ever. Fiction is much better than reality at providing
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Across Finland, dozens of daycare centers have been given money to rewild yards and increase children’s exposure to the microscopic biodiversity that lives in nature.
It is part of a growing body of research linking two layers of biodiversity: the outer later that includes plants and animals, and the inner layer that... See more
instagram.comRadical Curiosity questions commonly held beliefs to imagine flourishing futures. To be radically curious is to challenge the narratives inherited from the past and author new stories that reflect who we are and what we value today. It is to recognize when our collective wisdom, like any outdated technology, needs an operating system upgrade.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Part of the problem is an increase in physical misery. In 2006, 30 percent of people who rated their lives the worst said they experienced daily pain. Last year, 45 percent of those people said they live with daily pain. Before the pandemic, the experience of living with pain increased across all age groups.
New York Times • Opinion | The Rising Tide of Global Sadness
Humans as ecological: edged and edgeless, and deeply relational
Ecological Organisations pt 2: Being Ecological (Edgeless And Edged, And Deeply Relational)
nihilism and
What is the purpose of technology?
It is to enable more people to have more ideas and experiences in order to expand the universe.
Given that, it is a cosmic imperative to build, to create, to travel beyond the earth and spread human consciousness throughout the universe so that the Universal Consciousness can better know itself.
We have an imperative
... See morePacky McCormick • The Return of Magic - Not Boring by Packy McCormick The Return of Magic
technology is the answer but what was the question?
Human centric woof
fashion and
In ordinary language, we frequently speak of machinery or ideas ‘doing’ things in our lives. But they do nothing. People – human persons – produce, operate and apply their creations. The problem with assigning agency, even informally, to the nonhuman is that this disguises the strength of human control, limited though it is in other respects. It... See more