Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
This act of “really looking” is deceptive. It requires an almost “unlooking” to see closely, a kind of defocusing. Because: We tend to see in groups, not details. We scan an image or scene for the gist, but miss a richness of particulars. I suspect this has only gotten worse in recent years as our Daily Processed Information density has increased,... See more
Craig Mod • Looking Closely Is Everything
The kind of online engagement that matters isn’t just saying what you think, but creating the zones into which others may plug their thinking, find themselves welcomed and supported, and learn from one another.
Aidan Walker • Better Ways to Imagine the Internet
“Genre, medium, and format are secondary concerns and, in some instances, they seem to disappear entirely.” One piece of intellectual property inspires a feeding frenzy of podcast, documentary, and miniseries offshoots. Single episodes of streaming-service TV can run as long as a movie. Visual artists’ paintings appear on social media alongside... See more
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
ON LIBRARIESI was visiting public libraries and ultimately writing my dissertation about them and realizing it’s not about people engaging with kind of romanticized documents. There is some of that in the library, but it’s also compromised bodies interacting with compromised bodies, often the most marginalized people in societies and also really... See more
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
i have thought about this hacker news comment nearly every day since november ninth twenty seventeen https://t.co/mz5auDBkKl
Entrepreneurship and
‘exploratory social science’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Management as a concept no longer means doing "work," but establishing cultures of dominance and value extraction. A CEO isn't measured on happy customers or even how good their revenue is today, but how good revenue might be tomorrow and whether those customers are paying them more. A "manager," much like a CEO, is no longer a position with any
... See moreCreative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #121
Next, you need to figure out w hat drives your community. What are their motivations?