Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
In the old world of broadcast communication that Naomi Klein wrote about, promotion was limited to a few channels, so multinationals with massive advertising budgets had the power to sell a brand monoculture. Now every night, on Twitter, on Instagram, on TikTok, we scroll and see brands smushed up next to real people in the feed. Branding
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Success in New Games looks nothing like success in Old Games.
You won't have a prestigious job at a famous company. You'll have equity in something you built with friends.
Anderson • "Zihilism", and Why Young Men Are Choosing the Roulette Wheel
Our head of developer relations, before he became our head of developer relations, he worked at Zynga and ran a development studio. He said, “I’m going to build a game on Roblox and I’m going to crush it, because I know everything about building games.” He showed us his plans, and we said, “Well, you need to have some other things. You need to have... See more
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
a manufactured neediness so that we might be all the more beholden to the goods and services marketed with the promise of alleviating our plight and addressing the very neediness they cultivate
L. M. Sacasas • Embracing Sub-Optimal Relationships
The nature of the medium of token ownership and unstoppability means we no longer need to extract profits to realize value creation. We can create ‘for-public’, with a new underlying value system that means the value created in Hyperstructures far exceeds any amount of profits that can be extracted in the immediate term, and can be recognized for... See more
Rex Woodbury • Zora and the Rise of Cryptomedia
No matter whether we are talking about realistic or unrealistic possibilities, at the heart of this notion stands a commitment to the idea that the world is not yet finished, that it is in a continuous process of becoming, and that this becoming – for as much as we might anticipate it – is never entirely predictable. Beyond ‘what currently is’,
... See moreVlad P. Glăveanu • Possibility Studies: A Manifesto
how design has become mass user-centered, driven by rules of optimization, efficiency and engineering.
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
I’m excited to announce the My Sweet Dumb Brain Hope-Mail Exchange : a sweet, simple experiment in connection and kindness. If you sign up, my editor Becca and I will match you with another reader, and you’ll each send one piece of hope-mail to the other (or more than one, if you wish!).
You could send a letter, a postcard, a drawing, a trinket —
... See moreSubstack • Instead of Waiting Around for Hope ...
Certain kinds of distress are more socially acceptable to express at work than others, Kanov said via email. It’s okay to openly grieve the death of a spouse or parent, but much riskier to share the struggles of a breakup, office politics, or financial worry, for example. The bereavement expert Kenneth Doka calls these losses—the kind we feel we... See more