Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Our goal should be to make algorithms into tools to help us expand—not restrict—the ways we can live our lives.
José Marichal • Trust an algorithm, or trust your neighbor?
“Hyper-individualism turns feelings of low self-esteem and difficulty finding romance into a personal responsibility: if it’s a personal responsibility for you to learn to love yourself, then society is now off the hook,” they say. The solution, of course, is not to strive toward true codependency but interdependency, something disability justice... See more
i-D • Unpacking our generational fear of codependency
platforms have risen to become the monolithic, centrally-managed household names that we are so familiar with—where we comfortably upload our memories and fantasies, our arguments and aspirations.
Eileen Isagon Skyers • Dirt: Are we post-platform?
It takes a deeply personal, in the bone, in the blood, in the spine recognition of the variables in motion. An abstracted version, an impersonal version, or seemingly "objective" or professional version will pop into modeling and mapping, and lose the necessary tangibility of the details – thus losing access to the realms of possibility to meet
... See moreultimately how this is going to evolve in a lot of ways for brands is that this is almost going to seem for a lot of them like the next generation of social media.
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
although mental illness is global, the experience of mental illness cannot be separated from culture. If there is a surge of Anglospheric gloom among teenagers, we have to study the culture that young people are consuming with their technology. In the past generation, the English-speaking world, led by the U.S., has experimented with a novel
... See moreWork in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
“Every way of seeing is a way of not seeing.”
Robin Beers • What Story Is Your Organization Becoming?
By internet friends, I do not mean mutual follows. I mean friends I feel comfortable calling when I need a second opinion on an idea or just want to shoot the shit. If I visit any of these cities, I know I’ll have someone to show me the cool spots.
Jason Levin • Decentralized friendships
Dr. Maslach outlined some of the factors that research has found leads to burnout: * Excessive workloads * Lack of flexibility in schedule * Lack of worker autonomy * Destructive competition among co-workers * Getting shut out of opportunities * Loss of shared common meaning and purpose at work * Workers feeling they are not meaningful change... See more