Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Refusal
the current structure will not hold. it’s breaking, and now is our time create something anew. it is time to revisit the terms and conditions of our current systems that obscure their extraction of our data and our agency, and take our silence as agreement. my personal struggle with refusal teeters on how to refuse without withdrawing from... See more
the current structure will not hold. it’s breaking, and now is our time create something anew. it is time to revisit the terms and conditions of our current systems that obscure their extraction of our data and our agency, and take our silence as agreement. my personal struggle with refusal teeters on how to refuse without withdrawing from... See more
Notes on Refusal, Repair, and Reconnection*
The citizen, stripped of initiative, becomes an operator of forms — a node in a bureaucratic exoskeleton that stretches from classroom to capital market.
Chor Pharn • Human Surplus and Its Leftovers - By Chor Pharn
I used to go online in search of things. Now, a huge part of my online experience is based on me waiting for platforms to serve me what they think I will like.
Charlie Warzel • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
Efficiency is great in an unchanging environment, but to expect an environment to remain static is unrealistic. Environments change all the time. When workplaces value efficiency in a changing environment, they become fragile. Inefficiency, like a genetic mutation, can allow for serendipitous discovery. Sure, it may produce the same mistakes as... See more
Shane Parrish • Getting Ahead By Being Inefficient
Practically speaking, a brand universe strategy allows:
- Flexibility for the Evolving Landscape: The Brand Universe Strategy isn't a rigid script, but a dynamic framework. It allows you to adapt messaging, content, and experiences across different channels and platforms as trends and customer preferences evolve.
- Deeper, imaginative storytelling:
Nikita Walia • this is your brand with a universe
For millennia, new ways of organizing social relations have emerged when philosophers, theologians, reformers, writers, and other visionaries imagine them elsewhere, in some idealized world that serves as a mirror to reflect the deficiencies of the accepted state of things.
Kristen R. Ghodsee • Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
It is important to take on tasks and roles , and then continue to develop and grow into other roles. Explore the edges of your comfort zone. Cultivating a growth mindset is critical to thrive in DAOs and is required to create an active, engaged community around a shared mission or purpose.
Ryan Sean Adams • DAOs as Playgrounds for Growth and Development
Learning is a political act because all learning consciously or unconsciously impacts our ability to contribute to a more—or less—moral world.