Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
the brain likely evolved to deal with the informational complexity of navigating and coordinating social relationships. If that’s true, she said, cognitive neuroscience that ignores sociality is probably pointless.
Sofia Quaglia • How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another
When more and more of the “things” we take up during the course of our day are digitized or virtual realities, which leave few if any traces in the world?
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
Sam Valenti IV (@sv4) started independent record label Ghostly International in 1999 after years in the Detroit club scene, carrying records for legendary DJ House Shoes and playing gigs with Mike Servino. Ghostly’s first release was Matthew Dear’s funky house track “Hands Up For Detroit.” Two decades later, he’s gathered that label’s evolution... See more
instagram.com“our ability to purchase and enjoy goods and services has risen much more rapidly than the amount of time available for us to enjoy them”. This pressure manifests in our decisions. “We feel like we want to have the best bang for our buck and minutes,”
bbc • The way we view free time is making us less happy
I also love that self-care is care for all. I think that one is pretty straightforward. If I’m showing up cared for, if I’m showing up embodied and at ease, that’s the energy that I’m bringing to the room and that’s the kind of experience that I’m going to illuminate for others.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
Fourth definition: Perhaps most important in our digital age, we say something is real if it’s authentic. When something is inauthentic, it’s fake. The physical world is full of inauthenticity, from counterfeit money to fake smiles. Inauthenticity runs even more rampant on the internet, where fake news, phony bots and Instagram filters that... See more
David Chalmers • Our Virtual Lives Are Real Lives
Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; but that’s where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.
Katherine May • Wintering
Where do we go wrong with comms? Cecilie Surasky of the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley reminds us: avoid zero-sum framing, stop fueling division, and focus on belonging.
View the Learning Lab takeaways and register for #ComNet26 San Diego before the early bird tickets sell out at ComNet26SD.org 🎟️... See more
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