Keely Adler

@keelyadler

brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.

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Austin Kleon (@austinkleon)

“The U.S. coffee scene has always been a mirror of national character” —

The bottomless diner cup reflected abundance and openness. Starbucks reflected globalization and the craving for experience. Third wave reflected craft and discernment. Luckin reflects something else entirely: the relentless pursuit of efficiency in a city that already runs on

TREND RADAR #8

We need to replace irony, sarcasm, and cynicism—which have contributed to our self-debasement—with softer, gentler attitudes. Cynicism is useful in criticizing, but is impotent when we need to build something better. Irony only destroys, never builds.

David Foster Wallace Tried to Warn Us About these Eight Things

Stuck on a problem you can’t solve? Go bigger. Expand it. Make it giant. Do not try to contain it, or simplify it, or reduce it. Make it so large that you can begin to see a new pattern. Solve the larger problem and the smaller one will get solved along the way.

Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules

you can always tell when a product has no soul.

& it’s almost always crafted based on feedback loops, not vision.

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Tina Roth Eisenberg • Thin Slices of Anxiety

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