Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Put it all together—diagnostic inflation in medicine; prevalence inflation in media; negativity inflation in news—and one gets the distinct sense that Americans might be making themselves sick with pessimism, anxiety, and gloom. But that’s not all. Just as the U.S. has long been the global economy’s chief cultural exporter—from Coca-Cola to Mickey
... See moreWork in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
Attention is the muscle. Looking closely is the application of that muscle. It can be exercised through deliberate action. Meditation is one method.
Craig Mod • Looking Closely Is Everything
technology has come a long way since 2010, and even more importantly (and more depressingly), climate change has advanced rapidly, increasing regulatory scrutiny. Regulatory scrutiny pressures capitalism, which in turn jumpstarts more business creation.
Rex Woodbury • Building the Sustainable Economy 🌱
underpinning the zero-friction society is an insidious belief: that every instant that we spend with other people without transacting is a transaction cost getting in the way of efficient market exchange.
Friction: The Cure for a Society Bored to Death
Family connections have always been the real blueprint to fame and success, beyond the rags-to-riches stories peddled in the media. This is perhaps why YouTube, Soundcloud and now TikTok are popular avenues for working-class artists to get their foot in the door.
The Face • What TikTok’s obsession with nepotism babies says about class
I always feel very curmudgeonly saying this, but I think that mid-to-late Millennials and very young Gen Xers are this weird straddle generation. Like, one of my earliest memories is playing with a working rotary phone my parents had in the kitchen of our house. But, also, I was online for the first time at like 7 or 8 and very much was raised... See more
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
“diagnostic inflation”—the slapping-on of more (and more, and more) clinical labels to pathologize everyday sadness and stress.
Work in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
Generations of intellectuals have turned away from the future, dispirited at best, cynical at worst.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
I like the term generalist, it’s one of the best descriptions of my career(s) and also a good representation of something I see as vital: being able to understand different domains and translate between them.