Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
There’s always going to be this chasm where it can only be leapt over through imagination rather than through empiricism. Empiricism can guide our imagination, but we still have to make that final leap on our own. To really get at this, you need to fuse the sciences and the arts. You need to think more broadly than just the products of research... See more
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
Ideas follow inspiration, which comes freely at a friendly intersection of diverse multidisciplinary, multi-industry, multicultural thinking – exactly the kind of thinking that our focused lives tend not to have enough of.
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
Stiglitz employs Isaiah Berlin’s positive and negative freedoms, and later threads the needle: neoliberalism believes only in ‘freedom to do’, and disparages the need of government to constrain corporations and the wealthy for the good of the rest:
workfutures • Doing Too Little
That's the second major confusion. There is no such thing as average!! An average person doesn't exist. This is an error of statistics. Average is a statistical concept. It doesn't and can't make sense outside of the context of statistical analysis. There is no such thing as average culture, or an average teacher, or an average school. Anytime you... See more
Andrew Rose on Substack
“…there’s a huge blind spot in the language of emotion, vast holes in the lexicon that we don’t even know we’re missing. We have…only a rudimentary vocabulary to capture the delectable subtleties of the human experience. Words will never do us justice, but we have to try anyway.”
Seth T. Harrell • Affective Foresight
an emblem of a generation starving for purpose while gorging on spectacle.
Spencer Kornhaber • What the Men of the Internet Are Trying to Prove
Beyond that, the community knowledge is also emerging, as the broader web3 community increasingly begins to document what works, even if, like magic, so much of this world can seem impenetrable to those not yet in it (and we need to work harder on magical user experiences).
Medium • Magic, belief systems + web3
Merch is always a physical object and a symbol