Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Cultural Encoding:
• Normalised the idea that surveillance can be gift rather than violation.
• Taught users that their data exhaust contains insights about their "true self."
• Made algorithmic interpretation of behavior feel like personality assessment.
zoe scaman • The Work
Nevertheless, we need to keep showing our vulnerable hearts to each other. The stakes are enormous. We need more chances to connect and bond with each other in public. We need reminders that total control and complete divestment from others isn’t possible and it certainly isn’t desirable. We need to learn how to forgive each other and reassure each
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words by me, art is "The Festival of the Toadstool Dance" by @anniestegg
[Image Description: a painting of a magical looking landscape featuring toads holding hands and dancing in a circle amongst mushrooms, butterflies, and under a full moon. 1. cite my source? i saw 555 on a... See more
instagram.com“We used to think that our jobs were these things that should give us fulfillment professionally and completely,” Chapman says. “That’s very much the monogamy model.” For members of Gen Z like Chapman, that model’s grown outdated, particularly in the flexible world of online work and within the fluid organizational structure of decentralized
... See moreJessica Klein • Chase Chapman on DAOs and Professional Polyamory
When we don’t have the words or when our words are overly broad, we run into misconceptions.
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
We need to become better storytellers in such a way that we can, through a variety of media, give people a visceral sense of what a positive future would sound, taste, feel and look like. We need to create stories where the kind of future we want to see becomes commonplace, everyday. We need to tell stories with an underlying sense that the mere
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
curation, for a really long time, has been top-down. The idea of a very small pool of people deciding a lot of what people consume is never really a good idea. Injecting the voice of the people, and allowing for individuals who maybe would be talented curators on their own, to have the opportunity to pull new artists that we never would have... See more
Andrew Ryce • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
conventional attitudes about work are, without the owners even knowing it, nth-degree imitations of the attitudes of people who've done great things.
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
Create ownership in everything. Revenue shares in projects. Equity in micro-companies. Stakes in outcomes. The Old Game keeps you permanently renting everything: houses, cars, software, entertainment. The New Game makes you an owner of something real, however small.