Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
At the heart of her essay lies a simple framework that captures the dual reality many of us inhabit: There and Here.
“ There is where I earn a living, and it’s where I have a mortgage, and order groceries for pickup. It’s where growth is uniformly seen as good, and we’re told that social problems have to be ameliorated while still upholding
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To do something well you have to like it.
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
Awash in a bleak mediascape, I had simply assumed that optimism had been long exiled to the realm of corny naivete, gone the way of “Live, Laugh, Loving” and #Girlbossing. So it came as a shock when my TikTok feed started filling up with posts about the “Indomitable Human Spirit.”
Dirt • Dirt: The indomitable human spirit
Optimism and
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
Elsewhere, while COVID-19 may have abated from peak hellish weirdness, the narratives that collapsed then have not been put back together again
ZORA ZINE • The Laws of Lorecore
Polycrisis and
In a still-raging pandemic and cascade of atrocities, there’s a governmental and cultural push to rush through grief, to get back to business and move on. A cultural “correction” of time, to get back on the “right track.”
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water
Curiosity is a drive to acquire new information, or to gain new perspectives and new skills. It is through the acquisition of new information that new possibilities for the organism (and social organism) become activated. While that acquisitional (and novelty-centric) account has been useful over the years in studying curiosity from a variety of
... See morePerry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
As a beautiful response to this quote, we want to draw your attention to the last slide.
Created by @mattprebeg , the Corners of the Internet Database is a collection of "websites + digital places that reignite feelings of joy, excitement, and curiosity while exploring the Internet."
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instagram.comTwo and a half years and a pandemic later, we have Chaos, a group of musicians, visual artists, engineers, economists, lore masters, and more behind the internet’s first-ever "headless band."