Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
When I allowed my language and my views to change—informed by wanting to be a better friend, colleague, partner, community member for the people around me—I could feel my heart start to change, too. I wondered (in typical white, neoliberal fashion) why it was so hard for people to embrace complexity rather than conforming to binary ways of thought.
Religiously Blonde • Is Religion Violent?
The nepotism babies community on TikTok is more than just a digital fad, and is “part of a wider trend,” explains Ahmed. “Of social justice, which has been going on since the beginning of the millennium. Young people have had enough of an unlevel playing field”.
The Face • What TikTok’s obsession with nepotism babies says about class
What you are feeling right now, be it volcanic anger or exhaustion or guilt or confusion or incapacitation isn’t just real, it is sacred. It is your heart reacting, in any number of ways, to its own sudden expansion. You are feeling something deeply, and it may or not yet be pulling you in a clear direction, but in either case it is a gorgeous
... See moreGarrett Bucks • What a Rage-Filled Heart, an Exhausted Heart, a Terrified Heart, and a Grieving Heart Have in Common
Here, you can be in touch with artists and their work in a way that feels fluid and in tandem with your own life. You can witness all of us grow while growing yourself. It's a place where you don't have to be secretive or competitive, your contribution is part of an ecosystem. We’ve been lucky to be around a community of makers who share, are fair,... See more
The Company You Keep
there’s also a rising widespread realization that we must adopt this framing if we are to solve the humanity-level problems that it seems we must solve. We might say that viruses and glaciers and CO2 and storms and heat have only so much parental patience for our infantile, childish behavior.
Medium • Humanity, the Ecosystem
- Off TikTok: I have a vague feeling that a few of you reading this are in India – if so, this is for YOU (and for Americans, should the TikTok ban actually go ahead, about which I continue to be...sceptical, frankly). This is a simple website that lets you watch TikTok’s off TikTok, meaning that it should let you view them even in countries in which
Pale Flare • Webcurios 02/08/24 – webcurios
There is another remark to be made about the conditions of this unconscious work: it is possible, and of a certainty it is only fruitful, if it is on the one hand preceded and on the other hand followed by a period of conscious work. These sudden inspirations (and the examples already cited sufficiently prove this) never happen except after some... See more
The Marginalian • Inclining the Mind Toward “Sudden Illumination”: French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works
“if we’re setting out to change the character of technology in our lives, we’d be wise to learn from the character of places.”*