Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Navigating mystery humbles us, reminds us with every step that we don’t know everything, are not, in fact, the masters of all.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
Staring down the barrel of human-driven climate change, an astronomical cost of living, and a poor economic outlook, most people recognize that they are far closer in life to desperate refugees than they are to the politicians, war profiteers, and rapacious capitalists who create them.
Nicholas Boni • No Matter How Rich You Are, You Can’t Own the Sea
As our current civilization begins to unravel on account of its internal failings, the strands that kept it tightly wound also get loosened. Every year that we head closer to catastrophe—as greater climate-related disasters rear up, as the outrages of racial and economic injustice become even more egregious, and as life for most people becomes... See more
Jeremy Lent • What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
I do think the internet used to be a lot weirder. Certainly more specific. It used to be a place you’d go for a specific interest. Now it is just the context of life and the way you communicate.
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
Climate collapse, institutional breakdown, technological disruption, cultural fragmentation - these challenges require strategic intelligence that's regenerative, not extractive. Collaborative, not competitive. Long-term, not myopic.
The transformation is already happening. In the margins, in the experiments, in the quiet rebellions of strategists
... See morezoe scaman • The Work
Social media virality increasingly positions the human user as a relay stations for memes rather than a source of original material—a disembodied avatar with a countable pair of eyeballs and a hand for clicking, for whom sharing is less and less distinguishable from creating.
Avery Trufelman compares this to the “random” humor of the ‘00s internet... See more
Avery Trufelman compares this to the “random” humor of the ‘00s internet... See more
Drew Austin • #185: The Painted Word
while trivializing soul-destroying health problems, the metaphor inflates the significance of trivial ones.