Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Here no doubt one has to avoid Berlant’s “cruel optimism,” which is perhaps thinking and saying that things will get better without doing the work of imagining how.
Kim Stanley Robinson • Dystopias Now | Commune
Relational power is the power to receive and absorb influences from others in a generous way, and then to respond with creative generosity, guided by the hope of mutual well-being.
Ecological Civilization
perhaps it is fitting to say then that inspiration comes from everything. But we have no exact way of pinpointing what part of everything it derives from, and so open, freethinking is essential for its emergence. It could even come from the interplay of everything with everything else, in which case inspiration is most at home in highly... See more
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play.
Numbers tell you what. People tell you why.
Qualitative research – interviews, ethnography, case studies and so much more - puts lived experience at the centre of economics. It surfaces context, power, and meaning that models miss.
Interviews aren’t “just chats”; their purpose, style, and interpretation... See more
instagram.com“The imagination creates the future,” writes Lewis Hyde, professor and author of the book The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World .1
walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Philosophy and
Here, you're architecting memory. Establishing logic. Encoding rhythm. Strategy becomes an infrastructure for cultural engagement. Not reactive. Not tactical. But deeply intentional.
This is what lets a brand metabolise change without losing itself. Because culture will keep moving. And brands that don't have an OS? They glitch.
zoe scaman • The Work
But places aren’t tests. Indeed, one of the signs of a healthy community is that it’s robust enough to tolerate a little difference.