Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
The key implication is that while you have not yet found the unique opportunity that will be the engine and purpose of your empire, you have to adjust your sense of value. Value is very legible within a clear plan to reach a clear objective. But you cannot pursue interesting novelty—things that no one else is doing or which you have never seen... See more
palladiummag.com • Quit Your Job
“The evil scientists from my childhood have become big tech bros.”
Jasmine Bina • Five Ideas for Rethinking the World
projects like Invisible Seattle and Loot prove that inventive and imaginative r
esults can emerge from collaboration, producing works that defy easy categorization and commercialization.
Consumers don’t need to fully reject franchise offerings, but perhaps they can find creative reprieve and representation within worlds that they can contribute to.
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2
Biology is history is communication. Anthropology is architecture is agriculture is what some old women have known all their lives.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles
Belonging feels like you are seen and heard. You feel alive. You’ve been invited into any given group, and you know you can be honest with the people in it.
Stanford Engineering Staff • Design to make a difference: How do we foster a culture of belonging?
What holds anything together? Glue is superficial, so not that. Thread is better, sewing, mending the torn-apart seams of perception—possibly. It is the right question—what is holding it together?—and the question alone might be the source of inquiry. Surely a search for the elegance in a mess of weighted compensations, and river-washed shapings of
... See moreNora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles
“Whenever I have encountered any kind of deep problem with civilization anywhere in the world [...] somewhere at the end of the long chain of events that gave rise to the problem at issue I have always found one and the same cause: a lack of accountability to and responsibility for the world.”
The Convivial Society • Amulets Against the Spirits of the Age
The idea that disasters autogenerate panicked, aimlessly violent hordes of people who must be controlled with an iron fist is an authoritarian fever dream. While the powerful would have us believe that frightened people are always selfish and hypervigilant, cooperation and collaborative care are common human responses to disaster.
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
But what if the next Stars Wars isn’t created by George Lucas, but by a group of people on the internet? What if the next Marvel isn’t the brainchild of Stan Lee, but is crowdsourced by thousands of tokenholders? What if Pixar fans could vote on the next Pixar character, and reap the rewards of that IP’s profit? What if the next Bachelor isn’t... See more