Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
In order for the internet to be a tool that brought a sense of learning and joy, I had to hack it in a way that would allow for that multiplicity. That’s how I approach being online right now.
Katja Vujić • Is Somewhere Good the Future of Social Media?
Embodied sense-making isn't "soft." It's often sharper. Faster. More culturally fluent than a 50-slide deck of abstractions. Because when you can feel the dissonance, you don't need another round of data. When you can sense the signal, you don't have to wait for the insight to calcify. The best strategists aren't just clever. They're tuned in.
zoe scaman • The Work
Integrity is loyalty to the ambiguity of my own edges, and permission for you to be blurry too. I do not need precision to know myself, or you. I need room for all of our selves to hold counsel.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles
in that silence - where the words remain but contact is gone - something essential fades.
Anna Branten • The Collapse of Communication
Enchantment is not apolitical. Disenchantment from ourselves and the world is a tool of colonialism.
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
The concepts of learning, unlearning, and relearning belong in every futurist’s repertoire in the sense that we need to learn our bias for progress, unlearn its primacy as a societal objective, and relearn that the human condition is best served by achieving homeostasis–steady equilibrium.
Medium • Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight
While there’s a strong individualistic streak in town, there’s also an appreciation for the mutual aid that living in such an intense environment requires. Living in places where life takes extra effort means that going it alone isn’t an option.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
The bottomless diner cup reflected abundance and openness. Starbucks reflected globalization and the craving for experience. Third wave reflected craft and discernment. Luckin reflects something else entirely: the relentless pursuit of efficiency in a city that already runs on
TREND RADAR #8
Religion is just one category of power that is animating our world. In the fight for reproductive justice, for example, religion is accompanied by capitalism (a system reinforced by the traditional family unit and household), sexism (the belief that women’s bodily autonomy should not be determined by women themselves), and the state (which benefits... See more