Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Mid-20th century the Western answer was easier: We exist to pursue human progress, to maximize human potential. It was about achievement in terms of technology, in terms of control and dominion over nature, over everything on the planet that isn’t human.
Medium • Humanity, the Ecosystem
what we’re witnessing goes far beyond cool teens and the extremely online to encompass anyone with free time, disposable income, and internet access.
time • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
Managers fail to diagnose the failures of the fads they adopt; they do not understand them.
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
To make diagnosis something ‘empowering’, the first step is to completely break it apart and acknowledge all of its potential different and conflicting functions. Diagnosis can give you access to community, or cut you off from community. It can give you access to benefits, or it can bar you from income through employment. It could get you your
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I think of the act of naming as diagnosis. Though not all diagnosed diseases are curable, once you know what you’re facing, you’re far better equipped to know what you can do about it.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
inside-out & outside-in thinking combined, alongside strong brand strategy, are how brands get to rich new spaces for breakthrough innovation.
Our fastest-growing age cohort is 17 to 24. That segment is growing the fastest. Roblox doesn’t really do traditional marketing. We grew entirely through organic network effects. One network effect is the UGC network effect. The more creators we have producing content, the more audience that attracts.
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
Stiglitz employs Isaiah Berlin’s positive and negative freedoms, and later threads the needle: neoliberalism believes only in ‘freedom to do’, and disparages the need of government to constrain corporations and the wealthy for the good of the rest: