Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Interwoven conversations among four friends explore the complexities and nuances of love, ranging from its beauty and joy to its darker and destructive manifestations.
tnsatlanta.orgprecarity, fear, competition, and ruthless self-optimization direct us away from the sort of solidarity and small and large sacrifice and patience that would enact change. And so we flounder, eager and anxious, wondering what it will take to actually act .
Anne Helen Petersen • Themes of a Year
It really isn't normal for points and leaderboards and achievements to be attached to everything we do.
Adrian Hon • How Did We Get So Obsessed with Streaks?
As futurists we look for signals—small, often weird things. They are usually new technologies, new behaviors, new narratives that don’t fit into the mainstream, but that are often precursors of important transformations. We then try to discern the larger patterns that these signals herald to understand where they might lead ten or more years down
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(3) When commentators give any attention to down-versus-up, they usually reduce the conflict to income disparities, but that is misleading. Down-versus-up is more attitudinal than economic. Sometimes the tension manifests itself along traditional class and wealth lines, with disputes focused primarily on money, but that’s only a small part of the
... See moreTed Gioia • 15 Observations on the New Phase in Cultural Conflict
I’ve always believed as an ideology, as a religion, as an absolute truth, that we should, every single one of us, tell our own stories.
Oldster Magazine • What Good Are Our Memories If We Never Share Them?
The inability to cope in one domain or another is part of being human, and attempts to eliminate it are for people who enjoy living in San Francisco.
Petersen writes • Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"
for most of us, our work would benefit from reaching out to others more, trusting more in our readers. I have seen, in many of my students, that the first proof of progress is that their stories become more cognizant of the existence of the reader – more fun, less unnecessarily dense, truer to life, fairer, warmer; they start engaging with issues... See more
George Saunders • Art vs. Commerce
Everyone is “dissociating.” Over the past few years, it’s become an open-source cultural term, ripe for applying (or misapplying) to all kinds of circumstances where people feel the need to turn off and tune out.