Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
A simplistic explanation of Hong Kong’s anorexia surge—along with koro and hysterical fugue—would be that mental illness is always and everywhere a case of social contagion. That’s wrong. What we call worry and sadness are universal human traits, and many psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, show up around the world. Watters’s most
... See moreWork in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
Trust, the willingness to be vulnerable to others, is an expression of faith that they will do the right thing. It is how hope lives between people. By eroding trust, cynicism steals our present together and dampens the futures we can imagine.
Jamil Zaki • Hope for Cynics
If the 20th Century was about mass consumption, the 21st Century is about “bespoke consumption.” We have more production than ever—the internet and AI both continue to make it easier than ever to produce—but that production is composed of more tailored, customized products designed for individuals, rather than for the masses.
Rex Woodbury • The Hyper-Personalization of Everything
“It’s very much about how the space makes you feel and how memories can be created there. Physical retail can bring so much to the customer that then the transaction will follow,” observes The Future Laboratory’s Buller. “Online shopping, social commerce, live-stream selling and all of those things have their place. But, in a physical space it’s... See more
Vogue Business • From Jacquemus to Balenciaga: Luxury fashion brands go hyperphysical
"I don’t believe in self-care, I believe in collective care, collectivizing our care, and thinking more about how we can help each other."
Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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In both cases, there’s a sense of mystery or necessary key to unlock understanding, powered by secret knowledge that travels back and forth. And, while there was an initial steward or creator, this folklore tends to be decentralised, community-led and learnt from peers.
Medium • Magic, belief systems + web3
Here’s Kevin Kelly, futurist and Wired founder and brilliant, brilliant man, pondering the future of the book: Over the next century, scholars and fans, aided by computational algorithms, will knit together the books of the world into a single networked literature. A reader will be able to generate a social graph of an idea, or a timeline of a... See more
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
2 - CAN I DO THIS IN AN AGENCY?
No. Probably not. The sausage factory isn't made for this type of thinking or work.