Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
To do something well you have to like it.
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
Exploring where impediments are hard, where they are soft and when they can be ignored is powerful.
Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism
... See more“We live in the era of the symbolic executive, when "being good at stuff" matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff, where "what's useful" is dictated not by outputs or metrics that one can measure but rather the vibes passed between managers and executives that have worked their entire careers to escape the world of work. Our economy is
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #121
On a week like this, I find myself oscillating between two strategies: staring directly at the crisis, and seeking temporary and necessary reprieve from it.
Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"
A metalabel is like an indie record label, but for all forms of art, culture, and ideas. A book publisher, a local collaborative creative project, an online community, an activist movement, an artist collective, a record label, and other collective cultural projects are examples of metalabels: groups of people using a shared identity for a shared... See more
Yancey Strickler • Rethinking labels: the origins of Metalabel
There are no real absolutes when it comes to religion. Commonly accepted cultural beliefs about religion need reexamining.
Religiously Blonde • Is Religion Violent?
The university is a public space as well as an ivory tower, and it can become a more organic part of the shared imagination of the place where it is based. I’ve long been convinced of the potential for more ‘challenge-based’ universities, which organise more of their output around unanswered questions rather than just bodies of knowledge, and which
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Any industry or organization can benefit – indeed, thrive – by adding generalists to the mix.
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
That's the second major confusion. There is no such thing as average!! An average person doesn't exist. This is an error of statistics. Average is a statistical concept. It doesn't and can't make sense outside of the context of statistical analysis. There is no such thing as average culture, or an average teacher, or an average school. Anytime you... See more