Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
The best thing that can be done to a problem is to solve it. False. The best thing that can be done to a problem is to dissolve it, to redesign the entity that has it or its environment so as to eliminate the problem.
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
we will win, because our hearts may be breaking in a million pieces, but they are not quiet.
Garrett Bucks • What a Rage-Filled Heart, an Exhausted Heart, a Terrified Heart, and a Grieving Heart Have in Common
Challenging the past as a viable template for the future is an important part of envisioning and enacting new futures. The parts of the brain responsible for creative imagination are directly linked to those that store and manage memories. Our ideas about the future are essentially tapestries remixed from of our memories of former days.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
Influencers, now a slowly fading cliché in the Internet’s tableau vivant, found success articulating the cult of personality, and marketing themselves as direct-to-consumer-goods. The shift away from this algorithmic surrender can be traced to the macro and micro “creator economies” spawned by the likes of Patreon, Substack, OnlyFans and even... See more
Dirt • Dirt: Are we post-platform?
societies that become too specialised, or too optimised in a particular way, are likely to struggle when conditions change. That is just as true if they seem to be doing well, since history never stands still. In this sense, imagination is functional rather than a luxury. It generates possibilities and keeps them alive.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
any picture of progress in society and politics has to involve some progress in how we think and feel: an escape from illusions and delusions, attachments and symbols that no longer serve us well, towards some deeper and more accurate truths. Much of what we count as progress has been a progress in consciousness of just this kind—progress in our
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
While e-commerce is accelerating to offer multi-layered experiences for customers and brands, bricks-and-mortar stores are becoming physical bastions of extraordinary, sensorial moments.
Vogue Business • From Jacquemus to Balenciaga: Luxury fashion brands go hyperphysical
curation, for a really long time, has been top-down. The idea of a very small pool of people deciding a lot of what people consume is never really a good idea. Injecting the voice of the people, and allowing for individuals who maybe would be talented curators on their own, to have the opportunity to pull new artists that we never would have... See more