Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
“Vocational education has been promoted largely as a way of improving the transition from schooling to work, but it also appears to reduce the adaptability of workers to technological and structural change in the economy.”
Slate • General Education Has a Bad Rap
Our feeds are designed to “prod the would-be attender ever onward from one monetizable object to the next,” he writes. This has had a deadening effect on all kinds of culture, from Marvel blockbusters that optimize for attention minute to minute, to automated Spotify recommendations that push one similar song after another.
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
We are, each and every one of us, a collection of our lived experiences. Our lived experiences shape us, how we interact with the world, and how we live in the world. And our experiences are valid.
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
Consumerism and
“Google results don’t feel authentic, or even written by a real human because the top articles are all in this keyword-loaded language,” said Dmitri Brereton, an engineer who researches search engines and AI. “Social media, especially TikTok, solves that authenticity problem because some experiential things are just better seen. It can’t get more
... See moreTerry Nguyen • The Future of Search
(Things like stickers, posters, etc) become tokens that represent something more - a shared experience, a shared set of memories that only people who worked on that project will remember and understand. A sticker, like a web page, can be a conscious act of institutional memory.
Tom Critchlow • LF05 - Strategy is Memory
Aquarius is a symbol of stepping into your strangeness. Aquarius knows that the way forward is weird, and the path ahead is paved with prayer. Aquarius teaches us, “You must fight for your dreams, and you must fight for your neighbor's dreams.”
Follow Your Weird & Your Knowing
How frequently do we embrace Band-Aids, temporary treatment, and other inadequate solutions in lieu of doing the real work of addressing the core foundational flaws of our social systems?