Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Games can therefore be understood as imagination infrastructures—engines for imaginative engagement. There are so many games out there these days, endless virtual worlds, that the utopian potential of this medium to break far beyond the limited possibilities for collective imagination in “normal” society also seems endless.
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Rahel Aima • Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds
The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
Russell Ackoffthesystemsthinker.com
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Not because of the role it plays in some national mythology, not because of the values it embodies (it probably doesn’t embody them any better than lots of other places), and not because it makes the ethical life somehow realer. It is worth saving because people live there.
phil christman • Small-Town USA
it’s about connecting people through a shared experience of chaos (whether you participated or just scrolled the hashtag), that’s not only fun, but has nothing to do with any of the realities of the world that get us down.
Lore Oxford • Issue #24: It's a chaotic world. We're just living in it (for now)
What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver? We might be forced to conclude that the real business of human life is not contributing toward something called “the
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After all: who gets to decide what is impossible anyway? If the future only exists in our imagination, then who gets to say what belongs between or outside the boundaries of the Futures cone?
Loes Damhof • Imagining the Impossible: An Act of Radical Hope
Everyone will have different profiles for levels of attention and working memory, and your cognitive capacities also vary throughout the day and throughout the years. Being aware of the existence of these cognitive bottlenecks can help you avoid being overconfident in your cognitive capacities, and to make more sound decisions at work and in your... See more
Ness Labs • Cognitive bottlenecks: the inherent limits of the thinking mind
Social media should inherently be social. It should be used not just for seeing your high school friend’s baby pics, but for joining communities and making new friends.
Jason Levin • Decentralized friendships
Fuller decries specialization as the enemy of synergy and proposes a reframing of culture that could “get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.” At its epicenter he places the value of wide curiosity and generalist knowledge.