Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
the world’s most visible public intellectuals today more often revive or reassert old ideas, rather than generating new ones. The result is that old zombie orthodoxies survive far longer than they should.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
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Web2 was built to scale up.
Web3 is built to niche down.
From @gaby_goldberg on “curators all the way down”👇 https://t.co/G43iSkbjEu
When analyzing the language sentiment from gaming subreddits vs. their no salt counterparts, it’s statistically clear: discussions within “Low Sodium” communities are in fact both more optimistic, less angry, and ultimately more enticing.
Substack • The Rise of Low Sodium & Gentle Gaming
Just to wrap this up and give a bit of a TL;DR: we are shaped by our introduction to skills in rather nefarious ways. The getting started kit is the worst way to get into something because it takes us down a path of likely mediocrity, and doesn’t encourage us to pick up the tools that fit our skills and interests as we discover what those skills... See more
Andrew Lovett-Baron • Avoiding Kits
In an age of all information all at once + decision abundance
The new luxury is deep context + slowness
The job for the brand then, is to be able to create environment. That attracts someone to explore the depth of references
Reggie Jamestwitter.comwhy curation... and
Stuck on a problem you can’t solve? Go bigger. Expand it. Make it giant. Do not try to contain it, or simplify it, or reduce it. Make it so large that you can begin to see a new pattern. Solve the larger problem and the smaller one will get solved along the way.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
It’s important that people—actual individuals—are doing the work for themselves to decide how exactly they want to group information together, because it’s this exercise that hones a person’s unique intuition. It’s personal intuition that gives a piece of information a unique shape to live in