Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
the dominant model of conducting foresight will not suffice in building new worlds that “embody deeper and more dynamic interactions, relationships, friendships, families, organizations, communities, alliances, and collectives of all kinds.
Medium • Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight
It used to mean something, finding your people, your herd, your crowd, your familiar souls. It used to mean something to stumble upon people who cared about what you cared about. But now, even amid the internet’s turn back toward the notion of scarcity, it feels like all of our symbols have lost their capacity to signify.
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Because of the limited token model on which they operate, DAOs are forced to rely on implicit and interpersonal mechanics. Human intervention is necessary because there is not enough trusted information captured on-chain about an individual in a DAO.
Ben Dobbrick • The Otters go Soulbound
even a study looking at the dynamic between two individuals lacks certain aspects of the diversity of interactions that emerge naturally in organic, more complex social groups – including attention allocation, creating subgroups, and recruiting allies, says Julia Sliwa.
Sofia Quaglia • How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another
A reckoning with what it costs to hold things together, and what becomes possible when you stop holding so tight.
Just a moment...
Signal shows how values clarity creates strategic optionality. When privacy became culturally important, they didn't need to pivot or rebrand. Their ethical operating system was already optimised for the cultural moment that competitors scrambled to address reactively.
zoe scaman • The Work
all of today’s so-called subcultures are being routed along the same paths, like a Waze-induced traffic jam clogging the streets of a quiet subdivision
Drew Austin • The Culture of Cope
The republic that once tamed the frontier has bureaucratized it.