Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
“Sometimes life feels a certain way that we call “absurd”: nothing matters, all efforts are for naught, everything seems random and perverse, positive intention is perpetually thwarted. This stance communicates darkness and edginess, which can feel like wisdom. But we don’t live as if life is absurd; we live as if it has meaning and makes sense. We
... See moreStaring down the barrel of human-driven climate change, an astronomical cost of living, and a poor economic outlook, most people recognize that they are far closer in life to desperate refugees than they are to the politicians, war profiteers, and rapacious capitalists who create them.
Nicholas Boni • No Matter How Rich You Are, You Can’t Own the Sea
I do think the internet used to be a lot weirder. Certainly more specific. It used to be a place you’d go for a specific interest. Now it is just the context of life and the way you communicate.
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
The slap is also a story about our lack of opportunities to get back on the same page. The yearn to sync up. The desire to share a moment. The extinct joy of watching and discussing something together in real-time again... and more specifically, something non-existential.
ZINE • Will Smith, Cultural Synchrony & A Climate Crisis
We tend to treat "ethics" as a philosophical layer; a footnote, a disclaimer. But in reality, ethics shape design.
Because what you centre, amplify, or ignore in a strategy becomes practice. Becomes product. Becomes power.
zoe scaman • The Work
Once, we made sense of the world with sweeping narratives that provided a comforting sense of mastery. Now, with those narratives shattered beyond repair by a reality too complex for us to fathom, a new kind of coping mechanism is emerging—one where we make peace with the limits of our agency rather than pretending to overcome them. The task is no... See more
Games of Chance – ZORA ZINE
we are losing our capacity to “conceptualize a tomorrow that [is] radically different from our present.