Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
A memory commensurate to the complexity of the past and the whole cast of participants, a memory that includes our power, produces that forward-directed energy called hope.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Everything that is spoken and can be spoken is merely a figurative term we use to nominate the unnamable, an inventory of “metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms” that we have mistaken for the real and fixed. All we have is language and we cannot get beyond it.
Tan Tuck Ming • My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
Teaching has been too closely associated with the transmission of knowledge as an object, the exchange of information from someone who knows to someone who seeks to know.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Emergency-room visits for suicide attempts and self-harm have been skyrocketing for Gen Z girls across the Anglosphere in the past decade, including in Australia and New Zealand. But there is no rise in suicide or self-harm attempts in similar high-income countries with other national languages, such as France, Germany, and Italy. As Vox ’s Eric
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We are stuck in a doom-loop. You cannot open your phone or turn on the television without experiencing and absorbing untenable levels of grief.
Charlie Warzel • How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star
In his 1947 essay “On Fairy Stories,” J.R.R. Tolkien wrote that a creator should “hope that he is drawing on reality,” to shape the qualities of his world.
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2
starting in the late 1980s, with the explosion of the knowledge economy, people who were broader—who had worked across numerous technological domains—started making the biggest impacts. That's continuing today.