Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
A social body is united not only by the things it makes use of, but by a multitude of shared traits, including geography, ethnicity, religion, taste, culture, history, and values. This is why, no matter their claim to universality, instantiations of public goods are always local . Locality is created and felt through shared space, time, or
... See moreSam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
Public Goods and
Cultural companies design products from the core of the community they want to serve, and are open to expanding their brand story into something more akin to a lifestyle vs. a one-off product. Bringing your co-creators upstream with you, and knowing exactly what you’re designing for is a way to guarantee adoption and amplification. Identifying a
... See moreGrace Gordon • How to Build Brand Energy
one way to preserve the capacity of a symbol to signify is to limit its quantity or access to the symbol. Things only have meaning if not everyone has access to them, or so the logic goes. It’s an old idea. The heart of all emulation, really.
Brandon • martin luther's wordle starter - by Brandon martin luther's wordle starter
Multiple stories build and connect to form a larger narrative. That narrative can be a road map for a society, a nation. And unlike a story which is about someone else and has an ending, a narrative is opened ended and impacted by your actions. A narrative gives a call to action and a roadmap to the future. For many it creates their entire
... See moreTaryn O'Neill • The 4th Act — A New Narrative.
We all benefit from a future imprinted by curious Gen Z.
Sarah DaVanzo • Gen Z’s Curiosity Fingerprint for the Future
I think rituals are important, rituals that mark the passage of time. Well, it’s just time, I hear you say, just a man-made construct. Our lives run in tandem with a certain perception of time as backdrop — for most of us, that’s “clock time”. Even then, that has been quite forcefully upended by the proliferation of async communication channels of... See more
Sixian • 008. indications
we’re not so much tripping over nostalgia, revivals and retro but hoarding them. We have become pack rats of our collective past.
The Face • Our obsession with nostalgia is driving a trend revival spiral
The conventional wisdom of the Tower of Babel story is that the collapse was a misfortune. That it was the distraction, or the weight of many languages that precipitated the tower’s failed architecture. That one monolithic language would have expedited the building and heaven would have been reached. Whose heaven, she wonders? And what kind?
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