Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
The Fundamental Mismatch
This approach requires:
• Extended uncertainty
• Iterative development
• Systemic perspective
• Ethical deliberation
• Cultural immersion
• Temporal patience
Agencies optimise for:
• Rapid certainty
• Linear delivery
• Tactical focus
• Neutral positioning
• Conference room isolation
• Deadline urgency
zoe scaman • The Work
Hope isn’t always a bright and shiny thing. It doesn’t always stem from a beautiful, flourishing garden. It doesn’t always feel good and light and easeful.
It also shows up in the deluge. In the muck after the flood has subsided.
Its tone is not always “hopeful”. It can sound like rage,... See more
instagram.comWhile baking is an unquestionably sweeter activity than any sort of grind, many quickly found this did nothing to curb burn out or exhaustion. Ca
pitalism not only defines how we spend our time, but our relationship to the things we fill our time with. Are you knitting a scarf to learn a new skill, to indulge in a pleasure, to take breaks from
... See moremary retta • close but not quite
Like an IRL community, you’re not going to make friends in an online community unless you get involved, are kind, and are a productive member of the community.
Jason Levin • Decentralized friendships
Social media, mainstream news, and an explosion of Substack newsletters often painted pictures of cities quelled and hibernating, in some ways diminished, and of urbanites either turned inward toward self-betterment, or outward, toward their local communities or country homes.
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
In Indigenous cultures, everyone has a place in their community regardless of age and experience and they see themselves first as collective groups of kin, then as individuals. We live in a mostly fragmented society where the young are prized for their youth and more experienced members of the working force are abruptly pushed to the side once... See more
Medium • Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight
To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire. You have to be able to say, at the end, wow, that's pretty cool. I think the best test is one Gino Lee taught me: to try to do things that would make your friends say wow.
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
belief magic is ultimately decentralised and community-led
Medium • Magic, belief systems + web3
Theorists commonly identify two forms. There is “bonding” social capital created within existing social groups and “bridging” social capital created by relationships between existing social groups or across conventional lines of social segregation.