Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Sometimes, I wonder if this will ultimately result in a state of cultural affairs in which fresh artistic creation stops entirely. Unable to have a satisfactory relationship to the past from which we can create our own art, we’ll end up settling for reviewing the archive of all prior creative events.
Katherine Dee • Gen Z Lives in the Archive
It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too. In fact, I cordially invite fear to come along with me everywhere I go.
Elizabeth Gilbert • _OceanofPDF.com_Big_Magic_-_Elizabeth_Gilbert
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.
The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
In 2024, it’s easy to forget that iconic brands—those that win by riding cultural waves and becoming deeply associated with new cultural aspirations—must look to cultural idea markets first. A cultural idea market comes from the collective consciousness; it’s an aspiration or belief that a culture can unite around and become excited about.
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From Brand Strategy to Brand Anarchy
What’s important about the bitter bias is that it’s unethical and dishonest. Of course, sometimes we moralize people’s behavior because it’s actually immoral, but I think just as often we refashion it that way so that we can claim the moral high ground, thereby countering our feelings of inferiority.
“tiny touches” (when someone you live with is... See more
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Substack • #93: 5 new terms (that I made up)
As Kader Attia writes in Repair: Architecture, Reappropriation, and The Body Repaired, “While in the Western world, the act of repair aimed at simply restoring an original shape, in traditional cultures the repairs aimed further, towards the creation of a new aesthetics. For the West, repair was an illusion of reappropriation of the self, but for... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Reputation tokens on digital platforms typically serve two purposes: * To identify and reward the users who have contributed value to the platform—a form of signaling, which those users can parlay into public reputation. * To provide a form of compensation that enables contributors to liquefy some of the value they have created into an exchangeable... See more
Jad Esber • A Novel Framework for Reputation-Based Systems - a16z crypto
Here are just a few examples of the brown rice and potatoes versus peanut M&Ms and Swedish fish tradeoff that most people face every day: junk food vs. nourishing food; deep-focus work vs. distraction; scrolling social media vs. reading a book; porn vs. intimate relationships; retweets and likes vs. building a deep community; heavy drinking vs.... See more
Fred Dreier • Finding Meaning in Our Never Enough Culture
pleasure is hard-won, small, ephemeral; singular to each person