Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
there are no futures without histories.
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
The nature of the medium of token ownership and unstoppability means we no longer need to extract profits to realize value creation. We can create ‘for-public’, with a new underlying value system that means the value created in Hyperstructures far exceeds any amount of profits that can be extracted in the immediate term, and can be recognized for... See more
Rex Woodbury • Zora and the Rise of Cryptomedia
you cannot optimize for resilience.
Mandy Brown • Against Optimization
What could happen if we replaced the philosophy of rugged individualism with a philosophy of rugged cooperation? What if we swapped out the scripts we’ve learned in an individualist culture with the curiosity and care of a collaborative culture?
Sure, Mr. Hoover. • Hope beyond individualism
when we face uncertainty, we should be open to the quixotic and the unconventional.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
hanging out as a way to reclaim time as something other than a raw ingredient to be converted into productivity
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
A public investment is legitimate not because it keeps people busy, but because it secures continuity of life-supporting systems — energy, mobility, water, data, health — through cascading shocks. The public return lies in the prevention of systemic collapse, not in the volume of concrete poured or payrolls supported.
Substack • Infrastructure After Permanence: From Monuments of Certainty….
One thing that sets these intensely creative individuals apart, as far as I can tell, is that when sitting with their thoughts they are uncommonly willing to linger in confusion. To be curious about that which confuses. Not too rapidly seeking the safety of knowing or the safety of a legible question, but waiting for a more powerful and subtle
... See moreHenrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
Bigger breeds conformity and homogeneity, not creativity and experimentation.