Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Having complete responsibility for and power over my domain seemed like the ultimate rite of passage into adulthood. I’d consumed plenty of media that reinforced the idea, too. Looking back, I don’t regret my choice to try it, but I wonder what I actually proved.
Haley Nahman • #96: Why Do We Aspire to Live Alone?
An earthwork reimagining of the “farm-to-table” idea, where the table itself is carved from soil, and the meal grows from within it. Farm Is Table invites 30 diners to eat in community, seated in the earth, surrounded by weeds, wildflowers, and crops.
A meditation on hyper-locality, material, and the act of dining... See more
instagram.comOne of my favorite reviews for I Contain Multitudes was a one-star review on Amazon, someone saying that this is a book about feelings, which makes it not a science book. There are no figures and tables or charts and numbers, and it’s not serious enough. That science should be opaque and serious. I think it should be exactly the opposite.
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
1. The decline of platform lock-in: The blessing (for the company) and curse (for the customer) of most Web2 businesses is lock-in — your most important data stays on the platform where you created it.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • After Crypto
These trends work together to keep us stuck in a permanent past because they make it harder to follow different trajectories, to see meaning, to grow as people. It’s a world that rewards predicting over inventing.
stealing • Retrofuturism
Radical Curiosity is what allows us to experience the joy and the wonder of bringing absurd impossibilities to fruition.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
What does it mean to put one's foot down, though, when the other option is so terrifying? When the system doesn't give a shit whether your foot is down?
Ann Friedman • Rock the LOTE
It’s difficult not to dream when you send work into the world, but try not to dream quantitatively. We’re not in it for the numbers.