Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
We’ve come to believe that people who specialize early and narrowly—like Tiger Woods, who was already on national television golfing at age 2—have an insurmountable advantage. But the research shows that those stories are in fact the rare exception en route to success, and typically confined to repetitive domains, in which work next year will look... See more
Slate • General Education Has a Bad Rap
To me, the key is the identification and redistribution of latent value back to the community through compelling engagement loops, and the encouragement of long-term incentive models for group coordination.
Richard Kim • From Nothing to Something with R.N.G.
“Instead there is a constant attempt to recreate atmosphere. In the fantasy culture of the 1980s there is no real history, no real past; it is replaced by an instant, magical nostalgia, a strangely unmotivated appropriation of the past.” Put simply, it’s that hit of nostalgia, and the discovery of a new niche, that we’re after.
The Face • Our obsession with nostalgia is driving a trend revival spiral
We keep trying to manage ambiguity, and it keeps proving itself unmanageable, ungovernable. I’m coming around to thinking that ambiguity, like change, is a constant companion. And maybe instead of manipulating or avoiding it, we need to listen to what it has to say.
12 54 p.m • Disambiguation
The kind of pain that spurs a culture out of Entrenchment and into the next phase of Tension is deeply personal and emotional. It’s the pain of cognitive dissonance where there is a conflict between one’s self-image and their behaviors.
Jasmine Bina • The 4 Phases of Culture Brands
"Where is the edge of me? Where is the edge of you? When I ask, 'How can I be a better person?' — the question carries an illusion that is out of kilter with families, cultures, and histories that we are all responding to. I would rather ask: 'Who can you be when you are with me?' This is a more ecological question."
Nora Bateson, Combining
When I contrast Nusantara with comparable terms like “America,” “Christendom” or “Ummah,” the contrast is stark. Nusantara is to those ideas as the internet is to a mainframe computer. To bring Eric St. Raymond’s metaphor for software back around to built environments, if those imaginaries are civilizational Cathedrals, Nusantara is a Bazaar.
Venkatesh Rao • Nusantaraphilia
What if setting boundaries at work wasn’t seen as selfish—but as an act of solidarity, mutual respect, and movement sustainability?
In an excerpt from her new book The Future Is Collective, Niloufar Khonsari, a movement lawyer and co-founder of Pangea Legal Services, writes about setting workplace boundaries and... See more
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