Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Curiosity is a drive to acquire new information, or to gain new perspectives and new skills. It is through the acquisition of new information that new possibilities for the organism (and social organism) become activated. While that acquisitional (and novelty-centric) account has been useful over the years in studying curiosity from a variety of
... See morePerry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
strategy as living practice; responsive, responsible, and radically attuned to the world as it actually is.
zoe scaman • The Work
You're not here to outsource your brain. You're here to expand its field of play.
zoe scaman • The Work
folklore is by its nature not handed down by an authority. It is of the people, by the people—even if those people are children. So although kids may crib from pop culture and adopt things they learn from adults, making something their own and using it for their own purposes is what transmutes it into childlore.
Julie Beck • Why Did We All Have the Same Childhood?
We might think of it as a puzzle whose pieces are distributed amongst several people. All must be present, supplying their own pieces, in order for the whole to emerge. And when it does, each person receives a bit of themselves back as a gift.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
In order to develop and express their culture and achieve such feats of coordination, children require time and space apart from adult supervision. In the West today, outside of tiny pockets, this independence is almost exclusively the prerogative of poor children surrounded by crumbling cultures that lack the will to monitor and protect them.
Simplicio • The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth
going back to that idea of awareness of algorithms, I think one thing that really separates people online generationally is the divide between who has really tried to create stuff online. The savviest older-generation users are usually people who work in media, and they are exposed to how online content is made and travels. It’s not that they can’t... See more
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
This project is inspired by the transformative power of intimate gatherings. Most of my transformation has happened in intimate group settings where my care is prioritized.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
This is a concept some people call skill stacking, where you don't have to be the best at any particular thing, but you accumulate diverse experiences, then bring these unique skills that are ordinary in one area to some other area where they're extraordinary. It gives you a unique place and special power in your work.