Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
all of today’s so-called subcultures are being routed along the same paths, like a Waze-induced traffic jam clogging the streets of a quiet subdivision
Drew Austin • The Culture of Cope
you can change an entire timeline just by sending a risky text or talking to a stranger. you need to be playing with the fabric of reality
Diyaasubstack.comAs long as the broader we continue to see things as inherently, essentially distinct, systems thinking will remain a primarily academic or specialist practice — a set of tools rather than a paradigm-shifting force.
Medium • The Ecosystem Hypothesis
a good futurist spends a lot of time trying to decipher the present and to try to see it through the mask of present-day biases.
I sometimes think of “seeing the present” as trying on alien eyes; looking at the world as if I were an alien from another planet.
Trying to see beyond the immediate cycles of news is a challenge, because rather than being... See more
I sometimes think of “seeing the present” as trying on alien eyes; looking at the world as if I were an alien from another planet.
Trying to see beyond the immediate cycles of news is a challenge, because rather than being... See more
Kevin Kelly • How to Future
Media scholar Henry Jenkins, in his 2006 book Convergence Culture, cites a conversation with an experienced screenwriter that reflects this shift in Hollywood: “When I first started, you would pitch a story, because without a good story, you didn’t really have a film. Later, once sequels started to take off, you pitched a character because a good... See more
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 1
A decade ago, Greed was signified by the rise of investing apps. Coinbase let us buy and sell crypto, minting thousands of Bitcoin millionaires. Fast forward to 2021, and 48% of Americans invested in crypto, with 63% saying the primary reason for doing so was to make money.
Rex Woodbury • The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology
ultimately how this is going to evolve in a lot of ways for brands is that this is almost going to seem for a lot of them like the next generation of social media.
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
the energy on Bluesky is exciting, that the app and website are very usable, and that, as a journalist, I appreciate a platform that does not and says it will not punish links in any algorithm and which mostly operates in reverse chronological order… What’s happening on Bluesky right now feels organic and it feels real in a way no other Twitter
... See moreBrian Merchant • Bluesky's Success Is a Rejection of Big Tech's Operating System
cultures, audiences, and meaning operate on layered time:
• Spiral time: What's old returns transformed not repetition, but reformation.
• Deep time: Strategy shaped by legacy, myth, generations. Moves beneath the quarterly surface.
• Rupture time: Crisis, collapse, revelation. Not gradual change but cultural fracture and reassembly.