Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
The age of anti-ambition.
Doing the bare minimum, retiring early and idling for pleasure is increasingly aspirational as a new generation opts out of productivity culture and an unhealthy obsession with success.
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Group identity. Shared space. Vibes. These not only enable the creation of social capital, but strengthen the squad's capacity to organize, minimizing transaction costs and leading to greater productive capacities and resilience; this is "the nature of the squad."
otherinter.net • Squad Wealth
They were selling processed sauces in jars, but to my mind something bigger was being sold: a reality in which a mundane routine could spontaneously give way to a goofy public party.
They were selling freedom. And I’m still buying it.
Shane O’Neill • The Joy of Letting Loose
Every great product should have a moat, and careers are no different.
Product Tropes that Apply to Careers: Capitalize on unfair advantages, insights, or relationships. Disrupt orthogonally, often from below—try not to compete head on. When you’re younger, take more market risk; when you’re more experienced, take execution risk.
Product Tropes that Apply to Careers: Capitalize on unfair advantages, insights, or relationships. Disrupt orthogonally, often from below—try not to compete head on. When you’re younger, take more market risk; when you’re more experienced, take execution risk.
Substack • See your Career as a Product
the degree to which attention discourse is invested in a clear “subject” looking at an “object”: a binary relation that many of those other methods have challenged.
Dirt • Dirt: Disordered Attention
Here are the first two sentences of Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle: “In post-industrial societies where mass production and media predominate, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly experienced has been replaced with its representation in the form of images.” He wrote that in 1967! Imagine... See more
Haley Nahman • #100: New idea trending
The nature of the medium of token ownership and unstoppability means we no longer need to extract profits to realize value creation. We can create ‘for-public’, with a new underlying value system that means the value created in Hyperstructures far exceeds any amount of profits that can be extracted in the immediate term, and can be recognized for... See more
Rex Woodbury • Zora and the Rise of Cryptomedia
we do have the energy and the capacity to divest from these violent realities and to recalibrate by stepping through these access points.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
Challenging essentialist claims is not meant to absolve religion—rather, it helps us understand how religion is embedded within societal power structures.