Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
exploring the potential of what have been called hyperphysical stores. The macro trend was identified by The Future Laboratory, a trends and strategy company, to describe retail spaces that are enriching and emotional. They “create a really sensorial and holistically memorable store experience that goes beyond the original idea of retail,” says Abi... See more
Vogue Business • From Jacquemus to Balenciaga: Luxury fashion brands go hyperphysical
Rhythm eases people's interactions by synchronizing brain waves (Escoffier, 2015). Rhythmic sound not only coordinates the behavior of people in a group but also coordinates their thinking. That is, music can create a feeling of group cohesion and agreement.
Shahram Heshmat • Four Ways Music Strengthens Social Interactions
There’s something deeply compelling to me about the idea that research—in some form—can be done by anyone with a serious commitment to intellectual inquiry.
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
ChatGPT is a collective voice, not a specific one, and so even as the algorithm improves, we will likely continue to find its writing emotionally inadequate
Laura Hartenberger • What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing
anthropologist Anna Tsing’s ideas about ruins as fertile ground for new life: ruins are places that support the unruly, entwined strains of existence, proving that life can thrive long after apocalypse occurs.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
We need to deepen our storytelling of one specific kind of story, however – namely, the kind of story that can allow us to imagine a future replete with possibility.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
“If I told someone to be more vulnerable in an essay or book, what I would mean is that not everything the reader needs is making it onto the page,” I wrote to her. “You want people to understand and relate to your story, not just intellectually but viscerally—but there are certain tools and information you have to give them to do that.
Jess Zimmerman • A Cow with a Hole in It
belief magic is ultimately decentralised and community-led
Medium • Magic, belief systems + web3
The world into which we are born was shaped by a capacity to generate the new through billions of years of evolution. Now, for us, a comparable capacity to imagine, together, is a vital aspect of what it means to be free and alive. Imagination liberates us from the illusion that the way the world is now is the only way it can be. In this sense,
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