Keely Adler

@keelyadler

brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.

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Gen Z is the queerest generation in history: It’s stunning to watch the speed with which norms are changing. Gender, masculinity, and sexuality are each becoming more fluid, more complex, more multi-faceted.

As the queer community swells in both size and vibrancy, new businesses are emerging to serve the community. Millions of people who felt... See more

Rex Woodbury • 10 Characteristics That Define Gen Z (Part I)

We get older, we find life is riven with weirdness. We should be weird too. To know, tell, and create stories is a wonderous skill that keeps faith with the traditional and beauteous techniques our ancestors used when faced with the sudden mists and tripwires of living.

Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries

There is a specific uncanny nausea that comes when you begin to look at every image or paragraph, and wonder, “does this mean anything?” Not is it real. But does it have meaning, does it have intention? Is there an intelligence behind it, trying to communicate something to you, or is it a simulation?

Max Anton Brewer • The Mirror of Language

Philip Rosedale supposedly had the vision of Second Life while at the Burning Man festival and one of the first events they had in the game was a Burning Man recreation in 2003, and that helped set the pace and tone of what the community would be like. There was a heavy emphasis on serendipity and free-form engagement in the world. That might sound... See more

The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse

When you take away the crypto jargon, a DAO is intuitive, not intimidating. Self-organizing is our human instinct. Being in community is what enabled our survival as humans. Forming tribes improved our ability to gather resources, defend against enemies, and build collective knowledge. Coming together around a shared cause, deciding on group norms,... See more

Sarah Wood • Everything You Need to Know About DAOs… You Learned in Elementar…

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"

taste hierarchies like these stink. And they stink because they stand in the way of actually seeing the work on its own terms. Often, what this looks like is an artist or a viewer insisting on describing TV series by way of other media, praising a good show by calling it “cinematic” or “novelistic.” It’s a cliché by this point, but the early-aughts... See more

Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"

it’s easier to list small towns in American art that serve as sites for the examination of pathology, hypocrisy, or the ways a soul is stifled, than towns that serve simply as neutral settings.

phil christman • Small-Town USA

Bad ideas had a harder time scaling and reproducing, so lots of stupidity stayed local, and everyone else could happily overestimate the average person’s intelligence because they saw less of it. But then we connected everyone on the planet and gave them each the equivalent of their own printing press, radio station, and TV network. Now, even those