Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Not just from hours or deadlines, but from the mismatch between the work they know they could be doing and the work they're actually asked to do.
zoe scaman • The Work
When it comes to these services, some clients have a perception that while the work will be interesting, it may not necessarily be useful – a mere coffee table book to spark conversations. For these semiotic insights to succeed and inspire action, we must go beyond just the research and into the realm of application. It’s not enough to paint a... See more
Matt Klein • The Radical Potential of Semiotics & Cultural Strategy
The question of impact is my favorite. If the people doing the impacting are tired and sick and frustrated and have all these needs that are not being met, what good is that impact? The quality of work that we can do for each other depends on the quality of care that we’re experiencing and cultivating for ourselves. I can’t say that enough.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
As you read these words, you are rinsed with the gift of time. Yet, we are terrible recipients. We are no good at being helpless, humble, or indebted. Being needy is not celebrated on day-time TV shows, or in self-help books. We make lousy kindees.
Kevin Kelly • How Will the Miracle Happen Today?
if you’re thinking about a game is a place where you’re competing to win, very few Roblox experiences are like that. They’re almost all cooperative, shared experiences.
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
Secularism Is Complicated: the most crucial challenge to the promise of secularism—ie, that by separating church and state, religion became restricted only to the private sector. While it is true that secularization did happen at a specific point in European history (thus resulting in the Church being formally removed from political rule in... See more
Religiously Blonde • The Pitfalls of Believing in Separation of Church and State
an emblem of a generation starving for purpose while gorging on spectacle.