Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
We see each release as a chance to increase the surface area of our purpose.
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
Cognitive bottlenecks: the inherent limits of the thinking mind
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Readingnesslabs.com
Put simply, the masses hate experts. If forced to choose between the advice of the learned and the vague impressions of other people just like themselves , the masses invariably turn to the latter.
Ted Gioia • 15 Observations on the New Phase in Cultural Conflict
Structuration is a process of reciprocal interaction between human actors and the structural features of organisations, including organisations defined by technology. Human actions are both enabled and constrained by organisational structures; and those structures are the result of previous interactions.
stealing • Retrofuturism
Why have institutions such as the church and the state always been so threatened by magic? Part of the answer derives from who practices it; again, there are few robust studies of the trials, but less than 15% of those executed were men. Often the women prosecuted were unmarried and intelligent, while lacking the formal education given to their... See more
Medium • Magic, belief systems + web3
Biology is history is communication. Anthropology is architecture is agriculture is what some old women have known all their lives.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles
It’s normal to feel these emotions, and every consumer-facing company—in some way—taps into the negative emotions as well as the positive. Social networks, for instance, are as much about spreading kindness as they are about spreading malice. They are conduits for human communication, which runs the full spectrum of emotion. Both the good and the... See more
Rex Woodbury • The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology
things don’t have to be better than us to be extraordinary. I really wanted the writing to capture this feeling of nature as both being kind of goofy at times but also deeply wondrous.