Keely Adler

@keelyadler

brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.

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Tech boasts a frictionless existence, but friction is part of what makes life worth living. Every time we exchange our fallible, friction-filled world for a smoother, more convenient, more predictable experience, we are chipping away at what makes us human: our souls.

The Healing Power Of Social Friction | NOEMA

benefits of friction

What is authenticity? Of course there’s no such thing, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from believing in it. Nearly 80 years of anthropology research on authenticity-seeking behavior reveal authenticity to be one of the stickiest modern superstitions. The bulk of the early research is about tourism, an activity frequently motivated by a search for... See more

subpixel space • After Authenticity

All promise a future far brighter than the present. But it’s only manifesting that also requires you to put on happy face.

Stuart McGurk • Making dreams come true: inside the new age world of manifesting

Several Facebook-group administrators and members described to me the conundrum of relying on an imperfect platform to create strong, and for many people invaluable, communities. They understand that their groups exist on a controversial site, but they also say that not many alternatives have the capacity to build fellowship the way that Facebook... See more

The Atlantic • The Communities Trapped on Facebook

In the new work culture, enduring or even merely liking one’s job is not enough. Workers should love what they do, and then promote that love on social media, thus fusing their identities to that of their employers. … This is toil glamour, and it is going mainstream.

Stowe Boyd • The Problem of Productivity

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Professor John Ousterhout gist.github.com

Wisdom and

“It's about how our brand shows up in more interesting ways to get people to not be excluded but to participate more fully in what we either want or what they need to do with them.” From On Strategy Showcase: Adam Morgan on the cost of dull advertising, May 5, 2024

future mapping

this is the point - i think this interview misses an opportunity to talk about the fact that what we have to talk about isn’t interesting. and that’s a business problem. it’s not just how we say what we have to say, but what we do so that we are able to go to market in interesting ways.

Compliance feeds on anxiety, and America manufactures anxiety better than anyone

Chor Pharn • Human Surplus and Its Leftovers - By Chor Pharn

ours is an era of decline that has turned from the outward to the inward obsession with identity and “authenticity,” both personal and tribal, fueled by digital connectivity. Paradoxically, social media in this sense is anti-social, leading to the disintegration of community through a kind of connected isolation.