Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Of course, possibility beliefs can, and often do, derive from abstract self-beliefs as we get older. But also, simple beliefs about possible actions and their limits might precede, and contribute to, the construction of our self-efficacy, our mindsets, and our identities over time.
Tamar Kushnir • How Children Learn to Transcend Limits: Developmental Pathways to Possibility Beliefs
just like a traditional resume, where we show off our best selves, this experiential CV can become a breeding ground for competition. Keinan believes social media exacerbates our focus on productive leisure. Referencing a 2021 research paper, she suggests people are pivoting to signal their status and accomplishments in alternative domains – in... See more
bbc • The way we view free time is making us less happy
As a concept, fusion stinks of the imperialist instinct to civilize foreign cultures and rehabilitate them into respectability.
Taste • Closing, Not Fusing, The Gap
Big Tech and
Several Facebook-group administrators and members described to me the conundrum of relying on an imperfect platform to create strong, and for many people invaluable, communities. They understand that their groups exist on a controversial site, but they also say that not many alternatives have the capacity to build fellowship the way that Facebook... See more
The Atlantic • The Communities Trapped on Facebook
GamesBeat: David Baszucki has also said that you’re creating a platform. You’re creating the infrastructure, but it’s your users that are creating the metaverse.Donato: Fair enough. None of the content on our platform is produced by Roblox. All the experiences, all the gear, all the avatars, anything that you can buy is produced by the people, our... See more
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
When people say “love is not enough” they mean “the emotion of love is not enough to sustain a relationship”, and of course it isn’t. The emotion cannot lift you in and out of the bathtub when you injure yourself, drive across the country with you for the sake of your dream, wrestle with hex wrenches to put together flatpack furniture for the
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According to the World Values Survey, in the early eighties, 44 percent of Americans thought their fellow citizens could be trusted most of the time, but that percentage fell to the mid-thirties by 2014. This lack of trust is particularly pronounced among partisans: according to Pew, in 1994, 21 percent of Republicans and 17 percent of Democrats... See more
José Marichal • Trust an algorithm, or trust your neighbor?
TikTok’s For You tab serves an endless stream of short videos that algorithmically adapt to your interests, sorting the content most likely to engage you. Using it feels like having your mind read, because all you do is watch or skip, focus or ignore, a decision made too fast to be fully conscious. Individual videos or accounts matter less than... See more