Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
After the DTC era, brands have become present in every part of our lives, ambient, diffuse, meaning things to us. Sports, music, health, sleep, and person-to-person communication have become interpenetrated with brands. We all know that blue iMessage bubbles mean luxury conversation. Is luxury spirituality so absurd?
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
if you’re thinking about a game is a place where you’re competing to win, very few Roblox experiences are like that. They’re almost all cooperative, shared experiences.
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
Billable hours reward speed, not depth. Quarterly revenue targets discourage long-term thinking. Profit margins depend on eciency, not exploration.
zoe scaman • The Work
social acknowledgement of burnout, before it gets out of hand and things stop being sustainable, is really important.
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
People who got narrow, career-focused education were more likely to be employed right out of school and earned more right away, but over time both advantages evaporated; decades later, they had spent less overall time in the labor market and had lower lifetime earnings than workers who received general educations.
Slate • General Education Has a Bad Rap
Rhythmic interaction binds individuals together into cooperative communities.
Shahram Heshmat • Four Ways Music Strengthens Social Interactions
The notion of what community is, it’s starting to expand. Certainly, physical community does matter, but the lines are getting increasingly blurry depending on where people spend their time and where they socialize. For that generation, an increasingly large percentage of their social time is spent online, which is not necessarily bound by physical... See more
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
We now have the tools, resources, and means of coordination to reach heights that seemed impossible just four decades ago. Imagine the problems we could now solve and the feats we could achieve if we began to pursue a new, collective vision for the future.
cameronwiese.com • It's time to build: A New World's Fair
In a world where multiplayer mode is the norm, we transcend the traditional boundaries of collaboration, extending the concept far beyond gaming or professional teamwork to reshape the very fabric of society. Maybe then, they’ll start building statues of groups of people (and include our more-than-human co-conspirators, too)