Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
A reason for optimism is that Gen Z’s know their mental health is poor, and they’re taking action. Talking about depression is no longer stigmatized; more and more people are going to therapy. And new companies are emerging to provide support (e.g., Pace, Headway, Sondermind, Grow).
Rex Woodbury • 10 Characteristics That Define Gen Z (Part I)
With the Web3 would-be metaverses, I think they put the cart before the horse. If you put out a speculative offering, like a new coin that gains people entry into a digital world, people might show up, but I don’t know why they’d necessarily keep coming back. On a basic philosophical, human level, a thing is only valuable if a group decides it is.... See more
The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse
Incubated by SongCamp, the project saw this decentralized cohort of 77 artists embark on a wild Web3 experiment: What would it look like to collectively create music, artwork, tokenomics, lore, a novel distribution mechanic, a website, and custom smart contracts within an intense eight-week timeframe? What would it be like to lean into chaos?
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • Inside the Internet's First 77-Artist "Headless Band"
Information is economic sunshine. Do you capture it and trade it around or do you let it bounce away?
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
Third spaces — the hug spaces — need to be physically designed for conversational distance (a literal rubbing of elbows) and they need to incorporate intentional programming that creates opportunities for spontaneous, unpredictable communication and connection. The necessary work of bridging societal divides to strengthen democracy, then, may be
... See moreThe Healing Power Of Social Friction | NOEMA
Underneath the eloquence, the glamor, the scholarly associations, however stirring or seductive, the heart of such language is languishing, or perhaps not beating at all – if the bird is already dead.
Toni Morrison – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.org
As modernity took shape, the function of language shifted. We began to divide.
Anna Branten • The Collapse of Communication
it’s easy to identify how transphobic direct violence (assaults, hate crimes, murders) is influenced by cultural transphobia (rigid enforcement of the gender binary, erasure of trans people in the public square) and structural transphobia (laws barring gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth, or removing access to public bathrooms). All... See more