Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
the offering to decode culture and derive strategies for clients is increasing in need as well as value. But it’s not just about providing a mere map of culture – it’s collaborating on guardrails, a compass and climate report to navigate culture intelligently.
Matt Klein • The Radical Potential of Semiotics & Cultural Strategy
what Yancey Strickler calls Dark Forests . According to him these are “spaces where depressurized conversation is possible because of their non-indexed, non-optimized, and non-gamified environments”.
Portable Multiplayer Miniverses • Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses
The age of anti-ambition.
Doing the bare minimum, retiring early and idling for pleasure is increasingly aspirational as a new generation opts out of productivity culture and an unhealthy obsession with success.
ambition and
The revolutionary technology that makes DAOs so forward-thinking is that these functions are digitized and on the blockchain so that everyone in the community sees what decisions were made in one central source of truth, the public ledger.
Sarah Wood • Everything You Need to Know About DAOs… You Learned in Elementar…
All projects become memes, and then all memes become products. But the urge to celebrate the thing you love, and to communicate to others about the thing you love, is annoyingly human.
Celia Mattison • Deeper Into Smells
New research shows that we judge future positive events as both farther away and shorter than negative or neutral ones, leading us to feel like a holiday is over as soon as it begins.
bbc • The way we view free time is making us less happy
outside of their dwellings, many people are currently inhabiting the smaller pockets of space in and around their neighbourhoods: local parks, even just copses or patches of grass or playgrounds; the street corners (talking at a safe distance) of diverse, scaled-well high streets, that can actually speak to and articulate the local communities they... See more