Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
the overarching early 21st-century conundrum is not so much about problem-solving or policy innovation, but primarily a challenge of perception and imagination
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
If Reddit were a co-op, or even just a regular nonprofit, it could probably operate usefully forever. Oh well! At least we still have Quora, where someone asked “ I am facing 30 years to life in federal prison. Should I take some clothes to prison? ” and every response told them to flee to Mexico
Today in Tabs • When You Start By Wrapping Your Arms Around These Powerful Tabs, Literally Everything Is Possible
More specifically, a social norm is one that we follow because we expect others to follow it, and because we think others have the attitude that it ought to be followed.
Alexandra Plakias • Awkwardness: A Theory
The irony here is that the internet is a machine for solving collective action problems. Wikis let millions of people coordinate their labor to produce all manner of materials (most notably, the greatest encyclopedia the world has ever seen), and source-control systems like git let large numbers of people collaborate to build software together... See more
Medium • How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms
• You don't need to be a philosopher. But you do need to ask:
• What does this strategy reinforce?
• Who gains power from this frame?
• Who loses? Who's invisible?
• What assumptions are we leaving untouched?
zoe scaman • The Work
In this environment, the traditional virtues of infrastructure — permanence, scale, and linear efficiency — become strategic liabilities. A project designed to last a hundred years may now become obsolete in twenty.