Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
As the globetrotting Airbnb generation that’s increasingly susceptible to income, housing and job insecurity, millennials are perhaps the first generation to embody a sense of placelessness.
Dense Discovery • Dense Discovery / Issue 183
within the greater content ecosystem, fans are “active agents collectively determining the validity of the ‘official’ storyline.” Their engagement matters more than their canonical contribution.
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2
To garden is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads. It’s a way of being that is intimately interwoven with the real truths of existence—not the things we’re told to value (money, status, ownership), but the things that actually matter (sustenance, perspective, beauty, connection, growth).
Georgina Reid • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground
Meta is throwing money at the problem without throwing much wisdom at it.
The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse
Some seven types of stupidity..
via @mrianleslie
https://ianleslie.substack.com/p/seven-varieties-of-stupidity?s=r…
Obviously there are complications, but these are just complications. They are not physical limitations we can’t overcome. So, granting the complications and difficulties, the task at hand is to imagine ways forward to that better place.
Kim Stanley Robinson • Dystopias Now | Commune
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
... See moreHeather Havrilesky • The Rise of Emotional Divestment
The most authentic, fleshed out, truly female-centered narratives (e.g. Little Women and My Brilliant Friend) all include Time as a main character.
Women exist in cycles, phases, periods, seasons. A snapshot in time of a woman is not what she once was or what she will be. We are maidens, mothers, and matriarchs. We... See more
Kyrasubstack.comAs long as the broader we continue to see things as inherently, essentially distinct, systems thinking will remain a primarily academic or specialist practice — a set of tools rather than a paradigm-shifting force.