Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
SKIn both literal fermentation and metaphorical fermentation the fermentation is breaking down previous forms into new forms. We don’t know yet what the outcome of this pandemic is going to be on us. I mean, as I was finishing my manuscript, it was clear that society was making this sort of abrupt shift in a way that I don’t know that I had ever... See more
Sandor Katz • Fermentation as Metaphor
“a lot of people are already living under collapse. Throughout history to today, people outside the countries we call ‘developed’ have seen their homes and land destroyed, and have experienced no shortage of violence under this paradigm. Those people still manage to have rich lives as they fight for survival and meaning. They still have children,
... See moreDense Discovery • 319 / Looking for Comfort in Collapse
Here’s one way to frame our situation with regards to information, knowledge, and the public sphere in three stages: 1. Pre-modern information environments were locally shared common worlds mediated chiefly by our embodied experience. 2. Modernity offered instead a de-situated public sphere built on a shared institutional and expert knowledge... See more
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
The real flat-earthers are the ones who make life into a flat-description. it will not serve now.
Nora Bateson, Combining
Most of us find it easier to digest ideas in the form of narratives,
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
In order to keep your options open, you need diversity. Diversity of perspective, thought, knowledge, and skills.
Farnam Street • Preserving Optionality: Preparing for the Unknown - Farnam Street
more opportunities means higher opportunity costs, which could lead to lower risk tolerance.
Adam Mastroianni • Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
In a densely interdependent world, our imagination must be shared as well as individual, and it must reach out into the deep future, not just the immediate future. Freedom in the moment is not a true freedom. Without alternative options, we cannot plan or choose. We become slaves to the ideas of others.