Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Metcalfe’s Law, which states that the value of a network is proportional to the number of people using it, cuts both ways for social experiments that need to establish network effects. It’s really hard to get the right people to use the right product in the earliest stages, and most network businesses fail because of this Cold Start Problem.
Packy McCormick • Social vs. Science Experiments
the differences between what we call time in space (physics) and what we perceive as time in our minds (psychology). The dissonance of the definition of time in both realms shows us how much we need to unlearn the fragmented worldview in order to recollect the pieces in a unified approach.
Nogueira de Menezes • #016 Unlearning time
Is burnout, then, really a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress, as the World Health Organization has classified it? Is it a form of depression? Or is it a mark of disillusionment with the fictions propping up our world of work?
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
There must be some way to partake in shared online experiences in a way that does not feel totally beholden to the convergence and optimization of digital life. Like, there must be some way to share what I am thinking and feeling and watching and enjoying with everyone in a way that does not attempt to replicate my preferences into a trend.
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resisting the rule of the algorithm takes energy and creativity and courage, and the risk for our culture is that our technological skill and our cultural exhaustion are working together, defending decadence and closing off escape.
Ross • Can We Resist the Age of the Algorithm?
The new scientific consensus is that the brain actually “sees” very little. Instead it constructs much of our reality through prediction. The vast majority of what we see and perceive is actually a predictive model.
Jasmine Bina • Five Ideas for Rethinking the World
When you trust in other people, really incredible and unexpected things can happen. Usually, it’s things where you’re like, “Oh, I didn’t even think of doing that,” or, “Oh, I don’t think that will work out well,” but it actually does. Part of trusting other people might involve letting go of certain images you have of what the outcome should look... See more
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
