Keely Adler

@keelyadler

brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.

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Identifying and defining the hierarchy of mental content, which, in order of increasing value, are: data, information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. However, the educational system and most managers allocate time to the acquisition of these things that is inversely proportional to their importance.

Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker

As we shift to a cookieless future, it’s time to find—and support—your fans.

Long Dash • Do you know your fans?

A mystery in the older sense is like a prime number, which cannot be resolved into any combination of factors, but remains fully, inexorably, and unchangeably itself. A mystery in the newer sense, however, is a puzzle that can and will be worked out, or solved.

the hedgehog review • Mystery

Future infrastructures will not function as fixed networks of assets, but as living systems — adaptive ecologies that sense, learn, and respond to their environments in real time.

Substack • Infrastructure After Permanence: From Monuments of Certainty….

Marshall McLuhan wrote that every new technology was an extension of the human body but also an amputation of the same function from the body itself, and computers’ ability to furnish us with a second brain implies that our first brains have correspondingly atrophied.

Drew Austin • #187: A Rainbow in Curved Air

Simply cutting out the process works in rebuilds. A concentrated group of people want their highway back more than they want a new thing, loss aversion and all that, and disaster brings the attention and will needed to push things through. Even California was able to rebuild quickly after the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, reopening the Santa Monica

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