Keely Adler

Who thinks about the future today?

Brands after their own self-interests. Agencies after their own self-interests (or, if we’re lucky, after their clients’ interests). Employees in trendy offices surrounded by like-minded co-workers and like-minded networks, courting cookie-cutter clients with cookie-cutter visions of tomorrow.

At least, that’s... See more

Combine two skills that are valuable but even more rare and therefore more valuable together. Like a computer science degree and a law degree, or extreme knowledge of finance or mathematics plus public speaking. […] You’re not dabbling as a dilettante in a million things and never going a mile-deep, but you are spreading yourself across multiple... See more

The terror of incoherence. Not as dramatic thing, but as constant low hum underneath everything else. The body that might not hold together. The self that formed in fragments because the context wasn't safe enough for continuous narrative. The organization shifting into something unrecognizable. The culture disassembling. The words that don't land... See more

We knew we wanted to create a multiplayer moment that engaged builders in bringing A Future In Sync closer to reality — and we successfully did it. But what we didn’t count on was just how much energy we’d generate, how many connections we’d make, and the kind of network that would start to gather full of individuals aligned behind the desire to... See more

Get enough of each, and you will understand the data of the world.