Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
As Kristoffer Ørum, artist and self-proclaimed ‘misuser of technology,’ pointed out in a RADAR interview, as LLMs become “very good at drawing things that look like something,” humans have the opportunity to push in the opposite direction, reviving more absurdist and abstract forms of art — much like how the expressionists thrived after the advent... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
I believe “what effect do you want to have on people” is one of the most important questions we should ask when we are making something. Life isn't just a series of problems to be solved but experiences to be had.
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
When people say “love is not enough” they mean “the emotion of love is not enough to sustain a relationship”, and of course it isn’t. The emotion cannot lift you in and out of the bathtub when you injure yourself, drive across the country with you for the sake of your dream, wrestle with hex wrenches to put together flatpack furniture for the
... See morephirephoenix.com • labour of love
Put it all together—diagnostic inflation in medicine; prevalence inflation in media; negativity inflation in news—and one gets the distinct sense that Americans might be making themselves sick with pessimism, anxiety, and gloom. But that’s not all. Just as the U.S. has long been the global economy’s chief cultural exporter—from Coca-Cola to Mickey
... See moreWork in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
the “dreaded group dining table.” It was not an immediate hit when it first launched last summer. She attributed the initial hesitation to mixed attitudes toward COVID-19 guidelines, as well as potentially lingering feelings of social anxiety during the pandemic. These days, Jetta says, she can barely tell which groups came together or solo as they... See more
Emma Orlow • New Yorkers Are Turning to Dinner Party-Style Restaurants to Make Friends (and Find Dates)
When we don’t have the words or when our words are overly broad, we run into misconceptions.
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
For public authorities, the core challenge is that the instruments of decision-making — from cost-benefit analysis to capital appraisal frameworks — were built for predictability. They extrapolate yesterday’s data into tomorrow’s context, mistaking continuity for prudence. This produces a structural time lag between planning and reality, locking
... See moreSubstack • Infrastructure After Permanence: From Monuments of Certainty….
As an answer to this question, I propose this: We are discovering and awakening into an essential, animating, actionable awareness of ourselves as participants in ecosystems.
Medium • Humanity, the Ecosystem
Edward Cotton on LinkedIn: #strategy #innovation #futures #thefuture #dualmindset…
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