Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Points lack context. And that's exactly the problem with zero-dimensional history: a true point contains very little data.
Étienne Fortier-Dubois • History in the Space-Time Continuum
The same data pipes that deliver sports odds deliver political futures and economic sentiment indices; the same behavioural nudges that drive betting apps calibrate voter turnout. By monetising volatility, the state has discovered how to turn despair into cashflow.
Chor Pharn • Human Surplus and Its Leftovers - By Chor Pharn
Why is it conventional to pretend to like what you do? The first sentence of this essay explains that. If you have to like something to do it well, then the most successful people will all like what they do. That's where the upper-middle class tradition comes from.
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
03 / The Narrative Engine
What ongoing story does the brand tell; about the category, the culture, the self? Is it linear, cyclical, mythic, speculative?
This isn't about taglines or campaign themes. It's about story architecture. The deep narrative structure that governs how the brand understands its place in time.
Linear stories: progress,
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A 2017 study published by four economists in the United States, Germany, and China analyzed education and employment data in 11 countries with large vocational education or apprenticeship programs, comparing people within each country who had similar backgrounds—including test scores, family background, and years of education—but differed in... See more
Slate • General Education Has a Bad Rap
now, in a world of climate emergency and anxiety, loneliness pandemic, growing social/economic inequality, deteriorating mental and physical health, no wonder young people want to escape. reality shifting is also part of the toolbox one can use to escape the current reality
Rodrigo Turra from The Nexialist • 🪈✨The Nexialist #0176
These positions require a more generalist perspective, as well an organization that is willing to embrace an outlier as a legitimate role.
arbesman.substack.com • ☞ Outlier Roles in Venture Capital (and other Organizations)
Longing is lost in having. It is an art to ache. It requires stoic strength and unshakeable trust matched by equivalent portions of impatience and naked vulnerability. Stretching into the delirious pull of just-out-of-reach love, lights every cell.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles
much of what gives one’s life meaning stems from accidents, interruptions, and serendipitous encounters: the “off time” that a mechanistic view of experience seeks to eliminate.