Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
I used to believe that growing older and wiser would mean becoming increasingly attuned to the moods and thoughts of other people so that I could act accordingly. Only recently have I genuinely started seeing that way of being as a hindrance, or at least a complicating factor, to engaging in adult relationships.
Haley Nahman • #95: Are you baby? A litmus test
If social media platforms want to take on the mantle of being our arbiters of truth—then they have to be punished when people publish outright lies.
Get Matter • Pseudoreality
In Finland, your next warm shower could be powered by a data center.
Finland is turning data center waste heat into a clean energy source—heating thousands of homes while slashing emissions.
n the chilly Nordics, a surprising climate solution is heating homes: waste heat from data centers.... See more
instagram.com“For a very long period of time, our index of negativity in American news articles fluctuated around a stable average,” the UPenn economist J. H. van Binsbergen, a co-author on the paper, told me. But since the 1970s, negativity has gone haywire. “News coverage has just gotten more and more negative every decade in the last 50 years, especially
... See moreWork in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
Ambience offers the increasingly rare possibility of disengagement while still staring at a screen. Ambient television aims to erase thought entirely, smoothing any disruptive texture or dissonance. It provides glossy, comforting oblivion, or, as Matisse once wrote, of his own paintings, “something like a good armchair.”
Kyle Chayka • “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
“In our studies, something like almost 40% of young people [between the ages of 18 and 24], when they’re looking for a place for lunch, they don’t go to Google Maps or Search,” said Prabhakar Raghavan, Google’s senior vice president. “They go to TikTok or Instagram.” The type of queries and expectations that younger users have with search are
... See moreTerry Nguyen • The Future of Search
Music also plays an important social role, as it can coordinate actions and enhance cooperation and communication. Rhythm facilitates our interpersonal interactions in terms of not only how we move but how we talk and think (Lesaffre, 2017).
Shahram Heshmat • Four Ways Music Strengthens Social Interactions
The shape of the response needs to meet, not match the shape of the trouble.
Meet = many connections in motion
Match = singular static connection
Nora Bateson, Combining