Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
We should bring back more tactile tech —nothing was as comforting as that original gel textured iPod
peak y2K, born 2001 🫡🥹
need more of the soft/hard
juxtaposition in tech products
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It only recently occurred to me that what we actually needed was to grow up—get to know ourselves, learn to communicate. Trying to weasel out of all that with an app is, well, basically the entire value prop of Silicon Valley, but more importantly antithetical to growth.
Haley Nahman • #95: Are you baby? A litmus test
How do we leverage these technologies to make them transformational? It’s similar to what we talked about with the concerts. How do we think about the way music is consumed? In the metaverse, what’s the experience such that it will be 10 times better than doing it in the real world? That’s the path we’re on, figuring out how vertical by vertical,... See more
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
all standardised criteria for excellence, in upholding some fixed understanding of what excellence is, come to be seen as little more than marginalising forces exerted by capitalism, white supremacy or the patriarchy.
the critic • The death of Ideals
If one recognizes the stories, the same images evoke and comment upon a rich tapestry of narratives. If you are unaccustomed to the logic of the culture, you are visiting, the grocery store layout may seem random, but with an understanding of other aspects of the culture, the placement of the items and categories, unlike the ones at home, falls
... See moreDesigners and gamers call this kind of repetitive busywork “grinding,” which is perfectly evocative of its needless, anti-fun nature – and yet it’s surprisingly persistent in modern games, and I suppose, life.