Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Invasion, consolidation, and innovation can, I think, explain the pop oligopoly from the supply side. But all three require a willing audience. So why might people be more open to experiencing the same thing over and over again? As options multiply, choosing gets harder. You can’t possibly evaluate everything, so you start relying on cues like... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
When it comes to these services, some clients have a perception that while the work will be interesting, it may not necessarily be useful – a mere coffee table book to spark conversations. For these semiotic insights to succeed and inspire action, we must go beyond just the research and into the realm of application. It’s not enough to paint a... See more
Matt Klein • The Radical Potential of Semiotics & Cultural Strategy
Malesic, however, is interested in more than tracing burnout’s clinical history. A scholar of religion, he diagnoses burnout as an ailment of the soul. It arises, he contends, from a gap between our ideals about work and our reality of work. Americans have powerful fantasies about what work can provide: happiness, esteem, identity, community. The... See more
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
A sizeable majority of the world’s population (more than three in five) now believe the world is getting worse.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
If I believe my inner world is an “ecology” and social media’s algorithms are “incursions” and “extractive”—then I have to think hard about my own part in sustaining the fragile space of my attention, a place I’ve been cultivating with great care all these years.
Lia Purpura Published • The Ecology of Attention
“I suggest that the death drive has something to do with it,” the piece reads. “Our aesthetic and behavior are certainly shaped by a sense of doom. There’s a nihilism to the way people dress and party; our heels get higher the closer we inch to death. It’s why people are smoking again, so says the New York Times.”
rayne fisher-quann • The cult of the dissociative pout
Chargaff speaks to the immense yet endangered value of a robust and indiscriminate curiosity in grasping the big picture: Without a firm center we flounder. The wonderful, inconceivably intricate tapestry is being taken apart strand by strand; each thread is being pulled out, torn up, and analyzed; and at the end even the memory of the design is... See more
The Marginalian • Pioneering Biochemist Erwin Chargaff on the Poetics of Curiosity, the Crucial Difference Between Understanding and Explanation, and What Makes a Scientist
So, with regard to the principle that life cannot be delegated, we might helpfully ask, “What are the thresholds of delegation beyond which what we are left with is no longer life in its fullness and wholeness?”
The Convivial Society • Life Cannot Be Delegated
It’s one thing to be widely networked. Another thing to be strategically networked. And yet another to have created networks that compound over time (e.g Thiel Fellowship, Paul Graham and YC).