Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
chores—the verbs of building community are what made my experience meaningful.
Simone Stolzoff • Against Ikigai
This could look like financing mechanisms for open-source vs. closed-source infrastructure in order to enable community resourcing and abundance, navigating careful partnerships with existing institutions to build polycentric governance in the face of corporate control, and empowering data and platform cooperatives modeled after the worker... See more
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
When it comes to network building, most people make the mistake of focusing on brand awareness, instead of expertise. They focus too much on the “legible” side of things, rather than knowledge and skills.
Substack • See your Career as a Product
"The future rewards clarity and punishes certainty" - Margaret Heffernan
we should also remember that so much of what we call ‘madness’ or ‘mental illness’ is actually just behaviour that does not lend itself well to the capitalist economic system
Dazed • This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy
neurodivergence and
the domino meme (courtesy of visakan, i’m pretty sure)
The strategist is no longer a domain expert in isolation, but a pattern recogniser across disciplines - someone attuned to the logic of living systems.
Why does this matter? Because traditional strategy was built on fragmentation. On dividing markets from cultures, insight from intuition, brand from business.
But these divisions were always
... See morezoe scaman • The Work
what enables this derivative creativity and cross-pollination of ideas is a rich pool of mental resources to derive from. And I believe the two main mechanisms of how we fill that pool are curiosity…and choice.
The Marginalian • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
The second additional sin—“the 9th sin”—is Acedia, a word which has faded from our vocabulary. Acedia is effectively apathy or listlessness, “not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world.” It’s the sin which I think most succinctly sums up Gen Z nihilism. Acedia is evident in the gallows humor, the 💀 emojis, the... See more