Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
If we then fundamentally reorient that around a hugely increased emphasis on biodiversity i.e. not just human-centred design, stretching from the street corners out to the distant fields of agriculture and landscape that support them, we solve for climate, health, social justice, and pandemic simultaneously. That extends the ideas of social life to... See more
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
Group chats and adapted team workspaces create shared context and institutional memory. One necessary condition of the squad is this sense of persistence: co-presence and continuous availability to one another.
otherinter.net • Squad Wealth
What's something readers can do to improve themselves after reading your book? Make sure they're constantly hunting for match quality, which is the term economists use for the degree of fit between an individual's abilities and interests and the work they do. It turns out to be incredibly important for one's sense of fulfillment and for... See more
Alex Hickey • A Conversation With "Range" Author David Epstein
That, I think, is the power of ceremony: it marries the mundane to the sacred.
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
What makes it different to the long famed brand world is that it goes beyond creating a sense of the familiar which can be achieved via clever messaging and lifestyle marketing. Instead, a Brand Universe looks to expand its footprint across multiple cultural domains, and views them as genuine opportunities to forge connections and share real... See more
Christopher Morency • What Even Is a Brand Universe?
I like the term generalist, it’s one of the best descriptions of my career(s) and also a good representation of something I see as vital: being able to understand different domains and translate between them.
Patrick Tanguay • Generalists
“Our study shows that Gen Z is using the metaverse to cultivate connections and explore who they really are,” said Julie Arbit, Global SVP, Insights at VICE Media Group. “It allows them to dream and co-create a more idealized version of the world.
Business Wire • Razorfish Study Finds 52% of Gen Z Gamers Feel More Like Themselves in the Metaverse than in Real Life
Micha Frazer-Carroll: When you tell people in casual conversation that you are writing a book on mental health, the first thing they often want to talk about is diagnosis. I think it occupies a really central position in the cultural imagination right now. Lots of people I speak to seem to be coming to a diagnosis as a means of understanding their
... See moreDazed • This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy
Honest naming is a kind of ethical responsibility. We have a moral duty not to simply accept a harmful narrative, even if it comes cloaked in positive associations as a result of tradition, efforts by the powerful to preserve that power, or ignorance. We must not cave in to peer pressure from dead people.