Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
As our current civilization begins to unravel on account of its internal failings, the strands that kept it tightly wound also get loosened. Every year that we head closer to catastrophe—as greater climate-related disasters rear up, as the outrages of racial and economic injustice become even more egregious, and as life for most people becomes... See more
Jeremy Lent • What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
Serendipity is luck + action. To be luckier, take more active action . Walk wherever you can. Take the stairs. When you have ideas, turn them into action steps and get to work.
chrisguillebeau.com • 36 Ways to Live Differently
The intersecting catastrophes unspooling all around us don’t offer an escape from reality, but an intensification of it. So we have a choice: (1) Accept this reality. Accept the full toxic soup of conditions we’ve put ourselves in, as well as the thick, messy, profoundly human dramas playing out amidst it. And awaken to the burdens — of grief,
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Regenerative Games: Regenerative games are designed to regrow, renew, or restore systems, especially those that are damaged or lost like the environment, financial systems, and the well being of society. Regenerative initiatives are frequently designed for environmental and biological systems, but can also occur at the individual and organizational... See more
Ryan Sean Adams • DAOs as Playgrounds for Growth and Development
To engage with the possible means to infuse ‘what is’ with new perspectives and, in doing so, to radically transform it (Gaggioli, 2020; Glăveanu, 2020a).
Vlad P. Glăveanu • Possibility Studies: A Manifesto
Visions of truly global DAOs representing billions of people are a fantasy. But if we apply our principle of "positive externalities" to include future citizens of the places we live, protocol-built public goods starts to look more like community-driven industrial policy.
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
Our measurements are our agreed-upon codes for what matters, but once they are installed into our culture, it can be very hard to know when it’s time to rethink how we measure things in the first place. Our beliefs and feelings have a tendency to move forward before we have the models to describe them and the artifacts of culture – language, norms,... See more
Creating New Units of Culture
Media scholar Henry Jenkins, in his 2006 book Convergence Culture, cites a conversation with an experienced screenwriter that reflects this shift in Hollywood: “When I first started, you would pitch a story, because without a good story, you didn’t really have a film. Later, once sequels started to take off, you pitched a character because a good... See more