Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Is it possible that we must be passive to experience resonance? Do we only hear those loud, clear, deep, and continuing sounds—perhaps the heartbeat of the universe—when we forfeit control and let the wind blow us where it may? Does our grammar know more about the world than we do—does it embody wisdom that eludes the modern mind?
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
If magazines were containers for taste, the creators of the creator economy are vessels.
Daisy Alioto • The Taste Economy
With a global focus on a deeper and more sensitive understanding of consumers comes the prerequisite to also understand the structures in which they operate. For example, understanding how spaces are designed, the significance of images people are exposed to, or how objects communicate meaning through design. This is the operating system which all... See more
Matt Klein • The Radical Potential of Semiotics & Cultural Strategy
“Between 2006 and 2023, happiness among Americans under 30 in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand declined significantly [and] also declined in Western Europe,” the report says. But here’s the catch: In the rest of the world, under-30 happiness mostly increased in this period. “Happiness at every age has risen sharply in Central and
... See moreWork in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
So, if cooperation and collaboration has been key to our survival and some of our most impactful innovation, why is it so hard?
One of the biggest culprits is the pervasive influence of zero-sum thinking. While commonly associated with Western capitalism and competitive markets, it’s not an exclusively Western artifact. Civilizations across the... See more
One of the biggest culprits is the pervasive influence of zero-sum thinking. While commonly associated with Western capitalism and competitive markets, it’s not an exclusively Western artifact. Civilizations across the... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Now the internet has given us access to all of it, all at once, and none of it in its real, embodied, sensually lived and shared forms
New York Times • I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.
We are cells just realizing we are inside the body of a larger entity. Who/what is this entity? What is it doing, what is it about? My favorite question that has “humanity” as its subject is: What are we trying to do, as humanity? Or put another way, What is humanity doing / trying to do? Do you have a clear answer at the ready?
Medium • Humanity, the Ecosystem
Vanessa Andreotti: "Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity" | The Great Simplification 125
youtube.comVulnerability in writing is a precision tool.“ If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known,” Tim Kreider wrote in a New York Times opinion piece that has since become a wildly popular Tumblr meme.