Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
This is not meant to excuse the actual scams as fun experiments. Au contraire, the actual scams are doubly-destructive, because they harm their own users and they cast a shadow over the well-intentioned projects. Fuck the scammers.
Packy McCormick • Social vs. Science Experiments
Curiosity has the opposite effect of what Kristof described as Trump’s “corrosive acid.” It has the magical powers of rebuilding and reconnecting. Inquiry, when done honestly, builds bridges within communities.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
“Hyper-individualism turns feelings of low self-esteem and difficulty finding romance into a personal responsibility: if it’s a personal responsibility for you to learn to love yourself, then society is now off the hook,” they say. The solution, of course, is not to strive toward true codependency but interdependency, something disability justice... See more
i-D • Unpacking our generational fear of codependency
Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program is launching a new Love of Neighbor Initiative aimed at promoting love throughout many facets of society.
Comment READ to learn more about bringing love to public policy and why that matters for all of us.
commongood_maginstagram.comTruth, by contrast, reduces contingency. We cannot build a stable community or stable democracy on a mass of contingencies. Democracy requires binding values and ideals, and shared convictions. Today, democracy gives way to infocracy.
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Once you start looking for disassociation, it’s everywhere. It’s in the way we consume media, and how so much of what we consume is so targeted now, and you have to work hard to get another perspective, and we all spend time buying products that we know are not necessarily coming from an ethical place or arriving through an ethical process. But
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Brandonblgtylr.substack.comtoo much choice and
A generalist species can live in a range of environments, utilizing whatever resources are available; A specialist species needs particular conditions to survive.