Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
For the most part, we are naturally aware of these sensory limitations. But, somehow, we tend to overestimate our cognitive capacities — our ability to concurrently process multiple streams of information or to work on several tasks at the same time.
Ness Labs • Cognitive bottlenecks: the inherent limits of the thinking mind
All information is grounds for knowledge, whether empirical or aphoristic, no matter its truth-value. We should embrace the scientific-poetic synthesis and informed naivety of a magical realism. Error breeds sense.
Luke Turner • Metamodernist // Manifesto
we are losing our capacity to “conceptualize a tomorrow that [is] radically different from our present.
walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
We’re absolutely game for interoperability. It’s not really the issue right now. It’s figuring out how to get everything to work together. Right now, at least in the immediate future, there will probably be multiple metaverse platforms that will then interoperate. Those boundaries will get increasingly blurry over time.
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
Brands that offer memberships see them as something that allows the brands to offer better value to customers, while also hopefully locking them in to make future purchases.
Thingtesting • Why more direct-to-consumer brands are exploring membership models
When there's no friction, there's no imagination. You're left as a pure consumer - a medieval king feasting in front of a court jester. You grow overstuffed and lazy upon your throne.
Friction: The Cure for a Society Bored to Death
Start by releasing AI from the limiting mental model of “technology.” Start thinking of AI as talent, not tech.
Mike Arauz • August Newsletter: Start Thinking of AI as Talent, Not Tech. 🤖
Generative AI and