Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Awash in a bleak mediascape, I had simply assumed that optimism had been long exiled to the realm of corny naivete, gone the way of “Live, Laugh, Loving” and #Girlbossing. So it came as a shock when my TikTok feed started filling up with posts about the “Indomitable Human Spirit.”
Dirt • Dirt: The indomitable human spirit
Optimism and
desire is a compass
New York Times • I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.
It’s no secret: Black culture drives pop culture. It is “the original avant-garde,” as Felipe Luciano, a former TV producer, has said. But I sometimes wonder if appropriation is a prerequisite of Black culture going mainstream.
Jason Parham • The Age of Everything Culture Is Here
* Curation as second-order creation: the possibility of creating spaces where NFTs can be placed in dialogue with one another, in turn creating new cultural relationships and narratives
JPG (pronounced jpeg) • Permanence, culture and decentralization - JPG achieves a new milestone
This is the logical endpoint of a frictionless society: when every external stimulation is instantly available, people are left with nowhere to turn but inward, and what do we find? Emptiness. The unending stream of content hasn't filled the void; it's simply distracted us from developing the internal resources to cope with it.
Friction: The Cure for a Society Bored to Death
What if we reframed “living with uncertainty” to “navigating mystery”? There’s more energy in that phrase. The hum of imaginative voltage. And is our life not a mystery school, a seat of earthy instruction?
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instagram.comThe poll found that while Gen Z follows politics closely, they also believe that the current political system has little to offer their generation,
Peter Hamby • Out with The Olds!
curation platforms are creating opportunities for emerging products, creators, and artists to be discovered, opening up the universe of products and contents that are discoverable to consumers by creating new high-quality supply.