Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Dead Week… is a week off from the forward-motion drive of the rest of the year. It is a time against ambition and against striving. Whatever we hoped to finish is either finished or it’s not going to happen this week, and all our successes and failures from the previous year are already tallied up. It’s too late for everything; Dead Week is the
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Web3 101 and
Alignment is best facilitated with small groups of people. With each person added to a community, the alignment naturally shifts.
Steph Alinsug • A Culture of Intimacy: a thesis for building enduring web3 commu…
Energetic Fieldwork: Paying attention to cultural "temperature," social tone, behavioural rhythms; the
zoe scaman • The Work
Wakanda is the stuff of fiction — but it doesn’t have to be. The success of Black Panther revealed a hunger for experiencing other narratives; cities need to tell new and different stories, and that will occur only when more people get to tell them.
Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda
Working on the house has started to feel like an ongoing dialogue. Rather than imposing our preconceived ideas onto a bunch of inert matter, we often find ourselves asking, What does the house want? People who visit sometimes remark on the special feel of the place. They’ll ask, How did you make this house so cozy? The answer, as Bennett has shown
... See moreMorgan Meis • The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things
The aim of all of these was to shift the culture so that citizens felt a shared responsibility for their city, while expanding their sense of what might be possible after a long period of depressed fatalism.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Futures where we move past tired promises of “freedom from”—from established institutions, from regulation, from responsibility—and towards the shared capacity for building “freedom to”—to create, to learn, to struggle, to strengthen collective institutions, to ensure shared security.