Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Mental Health and
suffering is conceptualized in ways that protect the current economy from criticism—namely, as rooted in individual rather than social causes, which means we must favor self over social reform
Devon Frye • Is Capitalism Making Us Sick?
Hypernormalization is collective performed holding. Everyone acting like the thing coheres when we can all see it doesn't. The gap between what's visibly broken and what we're supposed to pretend is working.
Just a moment...
Emergency-room visits for suicide attempts and self-harm have been skyrocketing for Gen Z girls across the Anglosphere in the past decade, including in Australia and New Zealand. But there is no rise in suicide or self-harm attempts in similar high-income countries with other national languages, such as France, Germany, and Italy. As Vox ’s Eric
... See moreWork in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
LLMs introduce a temporality that is genuinely new: one that forces us to invent new cultural modes of production. How do we write, create, and remember in an environment where our tools are discontinuous archives, replaced every few years? How do we treat cultural memory when it arrives in frozen epochs, each already obsolete the moment it
... See moreSachin • Meme Time vs Archival Time - By Sachin - Summer Lightning
What we have is a compounded problem, in which people with generational wealth pull the levers on a society that they don’t understand. Whether corporate policies or social welfare or college financial aid, nearly every aspect of society has been designed by people unfamiliar with not only the experience of living in poverty but the experience of... See more
Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #114
What's replacing the campaign is cadence:
Not what do we say next? but how do we stay in rhythm with the world we're in? Not what's the big idea? but what's the organising logic we return to, again and again, that builds trust, coherence, and cumulative meaning?
The strongest brands today don't just launch campaigns - they install a way of moving.
zoe scaman • The Work
The role of a successful place is to provide a catalytic context for missions.