Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
I’d let those likes be an evaluation of the time I spent on the experience I just lived.
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
Hong Kong’s zine scene serves as a refuge for creative communities on the fringes of society, offering them a place and space to heal and be heard, writes @shabisou.
The punk cousin of scrapbooks and junk journals, zines are DIY publications produced in limited batches by writers and artists, and are usually devoted... See more
instagram.comglobalisation ‘has stripped us of imagination because it’s all about replication, it’s all about spreading your brand around the world. In order to do that, you have to reach the common denominator, you have to routinise, make things the same. It’s the opposite of imagination’.19 Local economies, she told me, are by nature more imaginative as they
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Relational infrastructure is only really seen when you know what you're looking for - much like the web of mycelium connecting trees in our forests that make the flow of communication, resources, and mutual intermingling possible, and enable life to thrive.
Sam Rye • On Relational Infrastructure
The other day some friends and I were reminiscing about an app idea we had years ago that would allow you to “blind cancel” on your friends. That is, flag if you were open to canceling a plan, which your friend would only see if they also flagged it. Basically, it was Tinder for bailing. This was our ultimate dream: an official, guilt-free conduit... See more
Haley Nahman • #95: Are you baby? A litmus test
In their enthusiasm to smash the past, what the futurists didn’t see was how the broken social pieces would seek shelter from the storm by re-forming through identity politics that ended up in the fascist movements that fomented world war. That is something to ponder in our own fraught time of fragmentation.
Nathan Gardels • The Perils Of Smashing The Past
I find most meetings are best scheduled for 15-20 minutes, or 2 hours. The default of 1 hour is usually wrong, and leads to a lot of wasted time.
Sam Altman • Productivity
Investment and time are required to establish a foundation for lasting community; members need to feel as if they have a shared emotional connection, not just an affinity toward a product or brand, but with each other. It’s rare to come across this collective third space that blends together the public and private, Gát said.
vox.com • Brands want to be more than your friend. They want community.
Many people in the tech world get solace from today’s torrid pace of innovation—they think that we’ll innovate our way out of the climate crisis. And they might be right. I’m somewhere in between—we probably should be freaking out right now, but I also get some solace from the caliber of entrepreneurs working on the climate crisis.