Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
The negative side effects from this new way of living are too countless to list. We don’t have the patience for anything, let alone the slow unfolding of human emotion. Ask anyone on a dating app how that looks up close, how it plays out over time. Pundits lament that the global populace is enduring a plague of psychobabble that adds up to
... See moreHeather Havrilesky • The Rise of Emotional Divestment
Embodied sense-making isn't "soft." It's often sharper. Faster. More culturally fluent than a 50-slide deck of abstractions. Because when you can feel the dissonance, you don't need another round of data. When you can sense the signal, you don't have to wait for the insight to calcify. The best strategists aren't just clever. They're tuned in.
zoe scaman • The Work
You can only bet on unknown unknowns near the frontiers of human tenacity and creativity.
Alexandr Wang • Betting on Unknown Unknowns - by Alexandr Wang Betting on Unknown Unknowns
there are no futures without histories.
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
Enter: web3, where participants use a wallet application like MetaMask, or Rainbow, to interact directly with the blockchain. Rather than logging into each individual website with an email and password, only to upload your files over again, your wallet acts as your login.
Eileen Isagon Skyers • Dirt: Are we post-platform?
To learn is to broaden, to experience more, to snatch new aspects of life for yourself. To refuse to learn or to be relieved at not having to learn is to commit a form of suicide; in the long run, a more meaningful type of suicide than the mere ending of physical life. Knowledge is not only power; it is happiness, and being taught is the... See more
Shane Parrish • What Can We Learn From the Prolific Mr. Asimov?
Our elders say that ceremonies are the way we “remember to remember
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass
In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
With all of these companies, the future prediction at the center of the brand was moving from the technology to a larger idea. Kia President and CEO Ho Sung Song made it clear that, “It’s no longer about machines, it’s about people.”