Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Here at Them, we're pro being a "weird little guy."
What exactly does that mean? It's about unapologetically leaning into what brings you joy, no matter how “cringe” or niche it might seem. It's about finding weird little hobbies to become kind of obsessed with; it’s a survival strategy for politically turbulent and str... See more
instagram.comWhat we need are visions of the future of technology that are values-driven, but we don’t need just design fictions. We need business model fictions, engineering feasibility study fictions, interop protocol specification fictions, investment return fictions.
Matt Webb • Towards the Orthogonal Technology Lab, V0.1
This could be happening across all of culture at once. Movies don’t just compete with other movies. They compete with every other way of spending your time, and those ways are both infinite and increasing.
Adam Mastroianni • Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
Belonging feels like you are seen and heard. You feel alive. You’ve been invited into any given group, and you know you can be honest with the people in it.
Stanford Engineering Staff • Design to make a difference: How do we foster a culture of belonging?
The rise of a decarbonization-as-a-service sector may make it easier to commodify and exchange carbon. But what if it doesn’t actually help address climate change? There is always the risk that the platforms could be algorithmically flawed—that their software isn’t accurately quantifying emissions, whether positive or negative. But there are also d... See more
Holly Jean Buck • Decarbonization as a Service
Sci-fi prototyping allows us to creatively explore and iterate how technology and social developments can shape and be shaped by the people who use it and explore its implications on the everyday lives of people.
Marjolein Pijnappels • Designing the Future Using Science Fiction
I’m especially taken by the idea of exploring how material culture changes the texture of our experience because the phrase itself points us toward a more tactile mode of exploration.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
The chief reason why ideation is now so important is that it starts at the beginning; in the truest sense of exploration. The main argument as to why generalists can offer such valuable assistance with this is that they can hunt down and recognize more different possibilities than can specialists. Generalism is not simply a nice-to-have; it’s essen... See more