Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
For a technology that’s billed as an architecture of the future, crypto is powered by a discourse that’s rooted in the past. Perhaps that’s why so few cryptocurrency-based, Web3-style projects meaningfully address big, future-facing problems. Instead, they seem to want to re-create financial structures that already exist, only with new people at... See more
Charlie Warzel • How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star
for most of us, our work would benefit from reaching out to others more, trusting more in our readers. I have seen, in many of my students, that the first proof of progress is that their stories become more cognizant of the existence of the reader – more fun, less unnecessarily dense, truer to life, fairer, warmer; they start engaging with issues... See more
George Saunders • Art vs. Commerce
Creativity is an organic, otherworldly, ever-mutating, metamorphosing act of wonder-wrangling. It doesn’t adhere to hard-and-fast rules, and it doesn’t care who you are or what you’re working on as long as you are willing to collaborate with it. It doesn’t require fancy materials or a giant worktable or endless resources of space and money and
... See morePam Grossman • Magic Maker
Consider a classic public good: a public park. We might say park visitors are generically "users" of this public space, or that anyone within driving distance is adequately served. But this categorization feels distinctly unsatisfying. "User" does not capture meaningful detail about a population that collectively values free access to protected
... See moreSam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
LARP world has limits and rules, as opposed to the relentless and grinding unknowable logic of our own world. Fantasy, in a sense, has become more stable than our reality.
Blaise Lucey • The Death of Calvin and Hobbes
Whereas in the past a person wearing a Nirvana t-shirt was probably a fan of the band’s music, today no such guarantee exists (and many more shirts are sold). This often precludes one of the original purposes of merch, a signaling of belonging to a certain (sub)culture.
Still, the meaning-making of merch has not disappeared, but merely shifted. A
... See moreAna Andjelic • Everything Is Merch
As always, it appears commerce is the death of art. Decisions are based on what has already been sold to people already buying, not what could sell to people who didn’t even know they needed king crab with XO sauce chips in their life.