Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
“There’s so much interest in content that categorises and explains trends. It helps make sense of the discourse online and distinguish trends from fads.”
The Face • Our obsession with nostalgia is driving a trend revival spiral
Hope, writes the moral philosopher Kieran Setiya,18 “keeps the flicker of potential agency alive.”
Brad Stulberg • Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You
These aren't revolutionary ideas. They're ancient patterns: small groups of humans doing hard things together repeatedly. We just forgot they were necessary because institutions used to provide them. The institutions are gone. Time to build our own.
Anderson • "Zihilism", and Why Young Men Are Choosing the Roulette Wheel
those kind of illogical blessings happen when you are open to a gift.
Kevin Kelly • How Will the Miracle Happen Today?
suggests that the self and its relation to the world is not merely a mental phenomenon. It has a sensual, embodied, and material dimension, and changes, even subtle ones, to the texture our experience can have profound consequences.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
Organizers seek to impact all of these things—the way people reconstruct the past, the way we understand the present, and ultimately the way we envision what could be. Creating against the grain. What stories are we telling ourselves? What are we sowing into the world when we speak? Our politics are the product of this world-building process. And
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It’s like any other comfort food, Keval says. “It comes from a longing for home. Second- or third-generation immigrant kids might not ever be able to taste what our families originally ate, but we still long for it—the taste is coded into us.”
Taste • Closing, Not Fusing, The Gap
Another example is hiring. Before I came back to academia a couple of years ago I was out doing startups. What I noticed is that when people hire they are almost always hire based on experience. They're looking for somebody's resume trying to find the person who has already done the job they want them to do three times over. That's basically hiring
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Ethnographic Mind – Exploring Ethnographic Thinking in All its Forms
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