Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
What may seem like disparate philosophies are all rooted in the same belief: that facilitating multiplayer futures means cultivating a healthy, generative, mutually-beneficial, and vibe-rich environment where people want to be , where people care about the outcomes, yes, but more importantly the people and the process, and where people can activate... See more
Em Howell • Multiplayer Futures
There's something in academia that is definitely an inspiration for me, the H index, though it is not perfect. An H index is a measure of an influential paper and what it does. Let's use CRISPR as an example. CRISPR is probably one of the most advanced and important technologies of the past 20 years, but we don't measure its importance by the... See more
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
everything has these kinds of convergent aesthetics.
Brandon • martin luther's wordle starter - by Brandon martin luther's wordle starter
“to hone sensory receptivity to the marvelous specificity of things.” I would argue that this is another way of talking about learning to pay a certain kind of attention to the world. In so doing we may find, as Andrew Wyeth once commented about a work of Albrecht Dürer’s, that “the mundane, observed, became the romantic”— or, the enchanted.
L. M. Sacasas • If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
magical thinking and
Challenger brands treat their consumers as more than just people who buy their stuff. They focus and speak to them with respect, unafraid of the fact that some people might reject them. Through the overcommitment to a specific tribe and mindset, along with the acceptance of rejection by others, Challengers create more exciting brand worlds,... See more
eatbigfish. • Fear Indifference Not Rejection
People operating just below the threshold of collapse often give more, tolerate more, and push back less. High-performing women, caregivers, and leaders who have been rewarded for holding complexity become especially valuable in these conditions. Their competence masks the cost until the cost becomes unavoidable.
Substack • The Workplace Runs on Dysregulated Women
Broad history is very much non-narrative, which is why, I think, it's a somewhat less common approach than deep history. Because h umans like stories. They're one of the major ways we make sense of the world.
Étienne Fortier-Dubois • History in the Space-Time Continuum
This is a different kind of aspiration than the one found in closet tours of young influencers and celebrities. Many of those figures seem focused on stockpiling luxury brands and reacting to trends. Part of why Rockmore and Woodall feel so reassuring is that, like all cool older people, they seem comfortably past all that, as though they’ve... See more
New York Times • The Rise of the Over-50 Fashion Mentors (Published 2022)
Truth, by contrast, reduces contingency. We cannot build a stable community or stable democracy on a mass of contingencies. Democracy requires binding values and ideals, and shared convictions. Today, democracy gives way to infocracy.