Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Facebook and Donald Trump are both creatures of speculation in an age of volatility, at once beneficiaries and producers of chaos and uncertainty. It's not (necessarily) that one emerges from the other, but that both are consequences of a particular, financialized approach to the world — one that seeks to profit from, rather than eliminate, chaos.
Max Read • Web3 as a "speculative community"
without the spatial filtering of culture, time is the only source of amplitude. Counterintuitively, this ensures that the past keeps recirculating, always presenting itself as new.
Drew Austin • #187: A Rainbow in Curved Air
I've had a few tear-my-hair-out moments while trying to figure out how to incorporate statistics in my book. On one hand, they give a piece of nonfiction writing some heft. With a topic as big and broad as adulthood, the appearance of a number says, "Hey, don't take my word for it! This is quantifiable !" But as a reader, my eyes glaze over at a
... See moreAnn Friedman • The Stats vs. The Story
The tendency to craft fictional realms is a natural human instinct, argues media scholar Mark Wolf in Building Imaginary Worlds (2012), a comprehensive study on constructed worlds. Our fascination begins in childhood. Youthful proclivities for fairy tales (“Once upon a time, in a land far, far away”) and the imaginary “[do] not change over time,”... See more
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 1
Why did Carson feel so strongly the need to proselytize the wonders of wonder? Perhaps she sensed that, without it, an emotional connection with nature would be impossible; without it, the environmental movement had no hope.
inkl • What It Would Take to See the World Completely Differently
If Reddit were a co-op, or even just a regular nonprofit, it could probably operate usefully forever. Oh well! At least we still have Quora, where someone asked “ I am facing 30 years to life in federal prison. Should I take some clothes to prison? ” and every response told them to flee to Mexico
Today in Tabs • When You Start By Wrapping Your Arms Around These Powerful Tabs, Literally Everything Is Possible
What you learn about the world through fairy tales is to accept things that may not make obvious sense. Trust that there is order behind them, and by doing so slow down the entropy of life.
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
I don't think we're going to enter a world where any one way wins the day. But I think we are starting to wake up to the contemporary over-indexing towards the voice of the crowd, when it comes to the distillation of that being an algorithmic culture and understanding.