Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
We should be optimistic not because our problems are smaller than we thought, but because our capacity to solve them is larger than we thought.
Kevin Kelly • 💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
Optimism and
Edutainment 1.0: In 1952 the FCC set aside 242 television frequencies for non-commercial educational purposes. Public broadcasting, an emerging counter-culture influence and aesthetics, and an idyllic 'neighborhood' ethos led to the first wave of Edutainment.
Wavetable • Liquid Learning - The Edutainment 3.0 Report
By community knowledge, I mean beliefs, truths and cures passed down over time.
By solidarity networks, I mean acting with trust, in small self-selecting groups.
By folklore, I mean the ritualistic repetition of the first to build the second.
By solidarity networks, I mean acting with trust, in small self-selecting groups.
By folklore, I mean the ritualistic repetition of the first to build the second.
Sarah Drinkwater • Magic, belief systems + web3
Speculation makes the crypto world go round, and I can’t see many degens apeing into static tokens that there’s no exit from. The idea that we’ll grind away at building a reputation so that we get some power in a decentralised society is still a bit utopian for now.
Nick Almond • Soulbound
Being kind boosts mental health more than seeking joy.
Evidence: Doing 3 random acts of kindness a week is enough to reduce depression, anxiety & loneliness. It's more beneficial than doing nice things for yourself.
Self-care feels good, but generosity builds lasting bonds.
Adam Grantsubstack.comI’m going to settle for small, random stabs of extreme interestingness – moments of intense awareness of the things I’m about to lose, and of gladness that they exist
Helen Garner • Helen Garner on Happiness: ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’
I love queerness so much as a beautiful and belligerent tradition of people whose sense of love and beauty and justice and art and adventure and family is too expansive for the examples that were set for us. But rather than keep quiet, we insist on something truer for ourselves.”
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
The deep knowledge about a place is most likely held by farmers and engaged locals. But it is not likely to be in a form demanded by policymakers to substantiate calls for spending. It’s not just about quantifying, it’s about qualitative data of the kind that amounts to a form of collective intelligence.”
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #84
Every culture falls on the spectrum from tight to loose: from highly structured and normative to loosely held and evolving. When a culture veers too far in one direction, there is often a reaction in the opposite direction.