Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
“What will happen if we give away free money? Won’t people just sit on the couch all day?” Underpinning these kinds of questions are two essential assumptions: (1) that money, a vehicle we use to exchange value, is intrinsically linked to labor, and to separate the two would be like reversing gravity, and (2) that leisure is something lacking in
... See moreSeth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
We could bemoan the fact that things have come to this, or we could steal the tricks and channel all of that weird energy into something productive, something that makes peoples’ everyday lives better.
Packy McCormick • How to Fix a Country in 12 Days
We’ve been told that doing “good work” will lead to economic success, but really, it might just be the other way around. With the help of large collective organising, worker-driven structures, and knowledge-sharing, we can accomplish better work conditions and more beautiful, more fulfilling creative work.”
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #82
Alongside technical tools, we need ways of defining and explaining social norms and expectations about contribution and value sharing. We need collective mechanisms for decision-making about shared assets, that make people feel heard while recognising the limitations, constraints and realities of their maintenance. We need people and organisations... See more
Creative Communities
What do I mean by non-goal directed activity? In spaces, instead of looking for actions that advance a goal, we follow paths of attention that lead somewhere interesting. In a conversation with friends, you might attend to what you could reveal about yourself. At a jazz jam, you might attend to dynamics contrasts. While dancing, you might explore... See more
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Let me state here that I am not refuting the benefits of channeling positive mental energy in the direction of your personal goals (if your Dad isn’t handing you a million-dollar cheque, how else are you supposed to do it?)
Phoebe Lovatt • Good Vibes Only™
fundamental structural ambivalence is inherent in an information society.
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
in an unstable, unpredictable world, ‘home’ becomes an increasingly fluid and emotional concept.
Eloise Hendy • Home is where the heart is, according to young people
