Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
“For me, revival culture is gaining a sense of control over an ever-shifting cultural landscape and relocating oneself in the recent past in order to fully process the present. [It’s] a way of temporarily stopping time.”
The Face • Our obsession with nostalgia is driving a trend revival spiral
The looseness or tightness of a culture in a category is tied to its norms, or lack thereof . Simply having an abundance of choices doesn’t mean the category is loose. What matters is whether among those choices there are clear, culturally agreed-upon rules and guideposts that help people consistently move forward with confidence.
Jasmine Bina • A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures
🏚️ Domicide
First time I come across this term (and framing), but it makes a lot of sense as an overarching theme. Our present is already very much defined by what one could generally describe as the disappearance of home **. And this will be even more so in the future due to wars, financial crises, housing prices, loneliness (or
... See moreCreative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #121
"The new creative mindset, I think for me, just meant looking more inward and being like, what do I actually want to make?"
We had the pleasure of sitting down with @alisoneroman to discuss her journey from First Book to First Bloom at VISIONS Summit: NYC.
instagram.comthe community is treated as some technicality on the way to platform adoption, as opposed to a new society and a new social context. There’s no small-town feel with Horizon, like there was when people were first coming into Second Life.
The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse
Words shape our ideas, how we see the world, and how we relate to one another. As design teacher and researcher Anne Galloway says:
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements;... See more
“Language doesn’t just make things—it assembles, cobbles together, entire worlds and all the relations within.”
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements;... See more
Nicole Fenton • Words as Material
highly flexible, participatory brand system
Grace Gordon • How to Build Brand Energy
I find most meetings are best scheduled for 15-20 minutes, or 2 hours. The default of 1 hour is usually wrong, and leads to a lot of wasted time.
Sam Altman • Productivity
One person in the United States’ easy pleasures are another person’s and ecosystem’s burden. This is what writers Markus Wissen and Ulrich Brand have called “the imperial mode of living.” Their book of the same name breaks down “how normality is produced precisely by masking the destruction in which it is rooted,” and this sense of normality... See more