Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Create ownership in everything. Revenue shares in projects. Equity in micro-companies. Stakes in outcomes. The Old Game keeps you permanently renting everything: houses, cars, software, entertainment. The New Game makes you an owner of something real, however small.
Anderson • "Zihilism", and Why Young Men Are Choosing the Roulette Wheel
while voting is symbolically powerful, this model misses an important truth: we do not discover shared values through individually revealed preference. If public goods are to satisfy shared values, then public discussion of what's of value matters!
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
Stress can change the body at a cellular level.
Akilah Johnson • Stress Is Weathering Our Bodies From the Inside Out
Religion is just one category of power that is animating our world. In the fight for reproductive justice, for example, religion is accompanied by capitalism (a system reinforced by the traditional family unit and household), sexism (the belief that women’s bodily autonomy should not be determined by women themselves), and the state (which benefits... See more
Religiously Blonde • Do We Really Want to Give God Away?
precarity, fear, competition, and ruthless self-optimization direct us away from the sort of solidarity and small and large sacrifice and patience that would enact change. And so we flounder, eager and anxious, wondering what it will take to actually act .
Anne Helen Petersen • Themes of a Year
Through our ability to acknowledge the layers of loss, we can truly discover our capacity to respond, to protect, and to restore what has been damaged.
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
Tackling Wicked Problems - As organizations look to activism to help solve the world’s “wicked problems” and foster audience loyalty, they’ll need Edutainment initiatives that focus on Science, Social Issues, or Sustainability. Edutainment alone can’t solve these problems. But brands and organizations can break down these topics in simple and... See more
Wavetable • Liquid Learning - The Edutainment 3.0 Report
I realized something which is fundamentally true of a lot of day jobs. Nothing I did at the job mattered, in the long run. No matter how much I spun, nothing about my situation ever changed. I worked my week, got to the end of it, and had nothing to show. The next week there would be more emails and more tickets, exactly like the week before. The... See more
kalzumeus.com • Don't End the Week With Nothing
Social commerce was valued at $585B in 2021, projected to reach $727.6B this year with 8.53X growth by 2030 based on average time spent on social media driven by TikTok