Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
now, as Dena Yago says, “you can like both Dimes and Doritos, sincerely and without irony.” If we no longer see brands and commodity capitalism as something to be resisted, we need more nuanced forms of critique that address how brands participate in society as creators and collaborators with real agency.
subpixel space • After Authenticity
something like autoimmune disease or long COVID falls into the third category of illness; it combines biology and biography in ways that are difficult for most of us (whether scientists or laypeople) to conceptualize.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Intentional overexposure vs. ambiguity maxxing – choose your fighter.
In a world obsessed with likes and followers, people are increasingly choosing mystery – keeping secrets and making you work to get them 😶🌫️
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instagram.comWhen ruins become places for celebration and growth, they challenge the narrative of inevitable decay. They offer us the chance to cultivate Lefebrve’s ideas of “the right to the city” through the experience of everyday inhabitation.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
In the words of speculative fiction writer Ursula Le Guin: ‘As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.’
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
We all have periodically IRL friendships: the friends you only see once every few months, but see on social media everyday. Based off recent trends in globalization and remote work, I predict 2 things: 1. As remote work grows, more of our past frequently IRL friendships will become periodically IRL due to the rising ability to travel as a digital... See more
Jason Levin • Decentralized friendships
What’s important is that points must credibly link their holders to the source (or driver) of reputation.
Jad Esber • A Novel Framework for Reputation-Based Systems - a16z crypto
On the one hand, Octavia Butler has this to say:
“The only lasting truth is Change.”
On the other hand, Bill Bernbach would counter as such:
“A communicator must be concerned with unchanging man, with his obsessive drive to survive, to be admired, to succeed, to love, to take care of his own.”
And you know what, they’re both right!
When we think
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