Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
7. On the internet, the past is a black hole sucking the future into itself.
stealing • Retrofuturism
The strategist augmented by Al can operate at new scales and speeds-while doubling down on what only humans can do.
Al does the lifting. The strategist does the listening.
zoe scaman • The Work
Have you felt it recently? That sensation of despair mixed with cynicism and powerlessness coursing through you?
That’s Weltschmerz
Christian Näthler • What You're Feeling Is Weltschmerz
We now live in a BANI world: brittle, anxious, nonlinear, incomprehensible. Old metaphors fail here. When we describe organizations as engineered systems, we expect stability and control. But today’s environment refuses both. The machine cracks under pressure. The “move fast and break things” mantra has contributed to a landscape of fragility,... See more
Robin Beers • What Story Is Your Organization Becoming?
New research suggests that AI is reducing complexity, or at least our experience of it. A recent study, The Platonic Representation Hypothesis , shows that as AI models become more powerful, they form increasingly similar statistical representations of the world. The result is that we are effectively simplifying our understanding of the world and... See more
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. Herbert Simon
Subconscious • All you need is links
“dissociation is always better than desperation.”
rayne fisher-quann • The cult of the dissociative pout
🏚️ Domicide
First time I come across this term (and framing), but it makes a lot of sense as an overarching theme. Our present is already very much defined by what one could generally describe as the disappearance of home **. And this will be even more so in the future due to wars, financial crises, housing prices, loneliness (or
... See moreCreative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #121
"Where is the edge of me? Where is the edge of you? When I ask, 'How can I be a better person?' — the question carries an illusion that is out of kilter with families, cultures, and histories that we are all responding to. I would rather ask: 'Who can you be when you are with me?' This is a more ecological question."
Nora Bateson, Combining