Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
It only recently occurred to me that what we actually needed was to grow up—get to know ourselves, learn to communicate. Trying to weasel out of all that with an app is, well, basically the entire value prop of Silicon Valley, but more importantly antithetical to growth.
Haley Nahman • #95: Are you baby? A litmus test
“Ideologies are never interested in the miracle of being.”
The Convivial Society • Amulets Against the Spirits of the Age
A Brand Universe is a harmonious and interlinked ecosystem of internal (image, attitude, and codes) and external (narrative, entertainment, and product) touchpoints that combine to make a brand or individual distinctive, sought-after, and influential amongst its target audience.
Christopher Morency • What Even Is a Brand Universe?
We now have communities online for anything and everything you’re interested in. Online communities are not just helpful for finding yard sales in your local area, but also for making genuine connections and building relationships.
Jason Levin • Decentralized friendships
challenges to long-held assumptions take place when individuals dive deeper and deeper into anticipatory imagination and provocation, and this opens the door to transformative realities that profoundly change the perspective of the foresight practitioner. Consequently, the possibility of these new worlds become an internal experience that can no
... See moreTFSX • The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
Exploring where impediments are hard, where they are soft and when they can be ignored is powerful.
Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism
To get a place wrong, over and over again, is at once an insult to and an invalidation of its people. To get a place right, then, is a healing of sorts.
Sarah Smarsh • From Kansas, with love: like it or not, my home defies stereotypes
As our day-to-day lives become so encumbered by expensive necessities, housing insecurity, and looming natural disasters, the question I consistently ask is: Where is lifestyle media? It’s pondering whether burger rankings are still important; it’s accepting defeat and painting a picture of the future of food that relies on lab meat fantasies.... See more