Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”
The On Being Project • Living the Questions
A comfortable, certain, and tracked-out existence is necessarily one of little vitality and low growth. This is a key reason to quit especially “good” jobs where you have become comfortable.
palladiummag.com • Quit Your Job
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
“The imagination creates the future,” writes Lewis Hyde, professor and author of the book The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World .1
walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
We have people that build experiences on our platform. We have people who build tools for other creators that work on our platform. We have people who build assets. It’s a very complex creator ecosystem that we’ve spent the last 15 years building.
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
The niche is flourishing — winning even — and we’re beginning to finally find representation in our products and titles. There’s something for each of our tastes. Communities too. It’s never been easier to find your tribe. And with that, tribalism.
We’re evidently in control of our view of culture. And with that, bespoke facts and realities.
We’re evidently in control of our view of culture. And with that, bespoke facts and realities.
ZINE • Will Smith, Cultural Synchrony & A Climate Crisis
So we’re all chasing novelty. The pulse of something new, something brilliant by which we can distinguish ourselves. The irony is that we don’t know it until someone else shows it to us and then we all copy them and the thing ceases to be novel or particular.
Brandon • martin luther's wordle starter - by Brandon martin luther's wordle starter
The Creator Economy is creativity in single player mode. It's every creator for themselves, with the algorithms encouraging people to perpetually make as much content as quickly as possible. In contrast, a metalabel is creativity in multiplayer mode. It's a system optimized for mutual aid and support for people collaborating on things together.... See more