Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
First definition: Something is real if it makes a difference.
David Chalmers • Our Virtual Lives Are Real Lives
My official statements on recent electoral events in America’s largest city
instagram.comWe need also to cultivate the courage to think about all the things that could happen, the things that are unpleasant to think about, the unusual, the unexpected, the unlikely. It’s not just a matter of reducing our anxiety about exaggerated uncertainties, it’s also about finding certainty in the unknowns—the risk factors, what goes bump in the
... See moreRyan Holiday • Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series)
In her excellent book Forced to Care, Evelyn Nakano Glenn refers to this ongoing scenario as a care crisis. It’s not just that there isn’t enough care — it’s that those who end up providing it are coerced, in some form, to do so.
Anne Helen Petersen • Forced to Care
we each inhabit a “non-time,” a gap between the past and the future that only exists if we can hold it open with our imagination.
Jenny Odell • Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You
You’ve never fully seen yourself in “proper” references.
So you’re good at making things for people who live between categories too.
• Work that feels like an art, not just more content in the feed sea
• Output that doesn’t read as another Canva template.
That’s differentiation. It’s also relief—for you and for the people who find it.
Substack • How to Turn Feeling Like an Outsider Into an Enormous Advantage
The earlier era of prestige TV was predicated on shows with meta-narratives to be puzzled out, and which merited deep analyses read the day after watching. Here, there is nothing to figure out; as prestige passes its peak, we’re moving into the ambient era, which succumbs to, rather than competes with, your phone.
Kyle Chayka • “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
The problem with JC Penney isn’t that the department store business is a bad business (you could argue that the online bookstore business for Amazon was also a bad business). The problem is that JC Penney doesn’t have a high density of people who are either deeply tenacious or deeply creative. The unknown unknowns at JC Penney are 1,000 times less... See more
Alexandr Wang • Betting on Unknown Unknowns - by Alexandr Wang Betting on Unknown Unknowns
Rituals can be defined as temporal technologies for housing oneself. They turn being in the world into being at home. Rituals are in time as things are in space. They stabilize life by structuring time.