Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
“Brands are forced to rethink not just the format, location and permanence of their stores but it also begs the question of how to measure their value when you can no longer use sales as a single success metric. It requires brands to look at the full equation,” says PwC’s Windsor.
Vogue Business • From Jacquemus to Balenciaga: Luxury fashion brands go hyperphysical
There are three primary dimensions by which people think about their secrets. One is what we call “social connectedness” — secrets that involve other people. Another dimension is how moral the secret is. A third is how it’s related to our goals, which often means our profession. Each dimension has a unique harm.
Elisabeth Egan • Unpacking ‘The Secret Life of Secrets’
Brands as Neo-Educators - Savvy brands that embrace the future of Edutainment will give audiences a behind-the-scenes look at the company. They’ll demystify professional processes, improve transparency, and make the impossible feel a little more possible. And they'll do it all in ways that feel accessible, engaging, and tactile.
Wavetable • Liquid Learning - The Edutainment 3.0 Report
Dreaming is about expanding our minds beyond the culture of white supremacy, and the perfectionism, hyper-individuality, rushedness, and passiveness it sees as normal. It asks us to see our connections to each other, and to tend to and grow those connections to build structures outside of the tables that were never built with care in mind.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Communal Dreaming
What if instead of waking up refreshed and starting every day with perfectly curated mornings and spotless emotional clarity, there's benefit to being an anxious, cranky, fearful, jittery wreck some days? What if we start recognizing that the jagged edges and rough mornings aren’t signs of failure, but essential features of fully lived life? After
... See moreSara Campbell • Tiny Revolutions №114: F*ck Happiness
As more and more of us sit with the question of what sits beyond intelligence as our true human premium, it seems that we’re doubling down on that ineffable quality that, as of yet, lies beyond the grasp of the machine: intuition.
It’s an entrance into a new era — a noetic era — coined and elaborated upon by Concept Bureau’s Zach Lamb, a brand... See more
It’s an entrance into a new era — a noetic era — coined and elaborated upon by Concept Bureau’s Zach Lamb, a brand... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Generative Tech is about what will actually touch us – what you can do with AI as a partner.
Until now, software has been used to refine our initial ideas into something useful; it was responsible for the second half of the process, if you will, of going from zero to something useful. But these new generative tools help you with the first half of... See more
Until now, software has been used to refine our initial ideas into something useful; it was responsible for the second half of the process, if you will, of going from zero to something useful. But these new generative tools help you with the first half of... See more
James Currier • Generative Tech Begins
We’re building Metalabel with these primitives because it’s hard for us to see why we would, in 2022, make a web product that would trap a creator’s work in a walled garden, that wouldn’t offer utility beyond our walls, and that wouldn’t share value with the people who create it. These are radical and important goals — radical in a way that many... See more
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • After Crypto
A republic requires citizens; entertainment requires only an audience.
– Megan Garber
– Megan Garber