Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Design The Future
youtube.comDesigning for Emotion / Emotional Ergonomics - Shuya Gong
our machines often work only to the degree that we learn to conform to their patterns. Their magic depends upon the willing suspension of full humanity.
Substack • LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment
Awash in a bleak mediascape, I had simply assumed that optimism had been long exiled to the realm of corny naivete, gone the way of “Live, Laugh, Loving” and #Girlbossing. So it came as a shock when my TikTok feed started filling up with posts about the “Indomitable Human Spirit.”
Dirt • Dirt: The indomitable human spirit
Optimism and
Community-funded research: Strategists are bypassing client gatekeeping and building direct relationships with culture. Paid by readers, not briefed by brands.
zoe scaman • The Work
“We emphasize domination and competition in the management of trees in forests… We emphasize factions instead of coalitions,” wrote Simard. It applies to the web, too. Social media companies segment and isolate us in order to package us up in tidy tranches for advertisers, just as big timber clear-cuts healthy, complex ecosystems and replaces them... See more
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
Teachers are the new DJs: We see a strong parallel emerging. The skills, tribes, and culture DJs brought to the table in the music & entertainment world match closely with new forms of learning, particularly those powered by the internet. The new breed of teachers are to education what DJs were to music. They are... Less likely to have formal... See more
Wavetable • Liquid Learning - The Edutainment 3.0 Report
When we focus on building new models of moving through the world that do not rely on violence and genocide to function, that is abolition at work.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
these emotions weren’t distractions to be soothed with meditation apps or dietary changes. They were born from the raw, combustible energy of dissatisfaction, that uncomfortable but essential force that powers transformation, both personal and collective.
Sara Campbell • Tiny Revolutions №114: F*ck Happiness
not every action, speech, or conversation about climate should be an apocalyptic snapshot, for the same reason that not every protest against police brutality should be a die-in.