Keely Adler
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brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Chat, they noted, can be cozy, intimate, casual, revelatory, expansive; it also has an emotional undercurrent. “Chat’s immediacy emphasizes response, reminding us that we do not simply create and express ourselves in writing, but create and express our relationships,” the editors argued
Anna Wiener • The Age of Chat
Trust, the willingness to be vulnerable to others, is an expression of faith that they will do the right thing. It is how hope lives between people. By eroding trust, cynicism steals our present together and dampens the futures we can imagine.
Jamil Zaki • Hope for Cynics
Orientate to what feels like truth. Endless fictions fatigue us. Be your naturalness, then commit to the lively disciplines such naturalness is calling forth in you.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
When something is normative, it’s aspirational. It is also ideological.
Ana Andjelic • Not Normal
Cultural Moneyballism, in this light, sacrifices exuberance for the sake of formulaic symmetry. It sacrifices diversity for the sake of familiarity. It solves finite games at the expense of infinite games. Its genius dulls the rough edges of entertainment.
Derek Thompson • What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture
All this is to say is that for design, as for other fields, the road to greatness is often paved with obsession—an immoderate, unjustifiable surplus of care. Doing things that no-one asked for with a love that no-one could reasonably expect.
Ben Strak • Nobody asked for this
In tough times, most brands will tend towards path dependency . A study published in the Academy of Management Review showed that good practice quickly becomes best practice, which becomes preferred practice, which becomes locked-in practice. This kind of incumbent thinking will perhaps be even more familiar to those working in an organisation with
... See moreeatbigfish. • The Cost of Mediocrity
"How do we write, create, remember when tools are discontinuous archives replaced every few years?"