Keely Adler

There's no such thing as wasted contributions.

We conventionally use G.D.P. and other material measures to evaluate how nations are doing. But these are often deeply flawed measures of how actual people are experiencing their lives.

Our thinking is changing far less quickly than our circumstances.

The digital dominance of the 21st Century has sorted us into our own tailored versions of online reality, where we drown in ads and information. It's overwhelming, noisy, and ephemeral. It's hard to have a simple conversation, let alone align the globe on a future worth building.

1. Hotel occupancy is 100% back to 2000-2020 avg 2. Manhattan subway ridership isn't even 40% back to 2019 levels. ... putting these stats in my Hot Take File under "travel bounced back to normal, but (especially urban, white-collar) work has changed for good"

perhaps it is fitting to say then that inspiration comes from everything. But we have no exact way of pinpointing what part of everything it derives from, and so open, freethinking is essential for its emergence. It could even come from the interplay of everything with everything else, in which case inspiration is most at home in highly... See more

how Jack Conte of Patreon once framed online community: you may think your interests are niche—maybe only 1 in 1,000 people like the same things as you—but with 4 billion people online, that’s 4 million people who share your interests. On the internet, no niche is too niche.