Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
The selling of spirituality and personal fulfillment outside houses of worship and therapists’ offices is nothing new in American life, said the historian Natalia Petrzela, an associate professor at the New School who has studied cultural movements.
New York Times • SoulCycle Without the Bike: Here Comes Peoplehood
the actual root of being good at consistently showing up across all the various platforms and mediums you need to as a leader is to have something real to say.
You need to know yourself and know your values in such a way that you can hold the same shape regardless of the format.
The substance is what makes the style possible.
Substack • What the Staples Baddie Should Teach Us About Politics in 2026
ultimately how this is going to evolve in a lot of ways for brands is that this is almost going to seem for a lot of them like the next generation of social media.
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
Designer Simon Porte Jacquemus has reimagined his bathroom, no less, for a retail concept that overloads the senses to playful effect and replicates the sense of humour that ripples through Jacquemus’s Instagram posts.
Vogue Business • From Jacquemus to Balenciaga: Luxury fashion brands go hyperphysical
[T]hey identified a small group of the foxiest forecasters—bright people with extremely wide-ranging interests and unusually expansive reading habits, but no particular relevant background—and weighted team forecasts toward their predictions. They destroyed the competition. […] They were “curious about, well, really everything,” as one of the top... See more
Patrick Tanguay • Why Is It So Hard to Predict the Future?
In the design of lives, as in the design of most other things, you get better results if you use flexible media.
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
It's all parts of our soul exploring consciousness in different ways, and we're basically building up huge amounts of information.
Every new thought we have, every new idea we have is new information. And that way, we're expanding the cosmos because each new piece of information that we come up with then goes into this library of his and becomes
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when it comes to belonging, what the Long Tail, A.I. and mass-customization offers on a personal scale, it erases in the macro sense.
ZINE • Will Smith, Cultural Synchrony & A Climate Crisis
In only three generations, children in the British Isles as well as the United States have lost their freedom to roam, their independently explorable territories shrinking from hundreds of acres to the dimensions of each child’s own back yard. This is not an accusation toward parents; their decisions reflect their judgments about their children’s
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