Keely Adler

The new vocabulary—mortgage, legislation, perspective, involvement, improvement, assumption, evaluation—are words you can’t weigh, point to, or hold i

Concrete words travel through two channels, verbal and sensory; abstract words travel through one. Two channels mean two retrieval pathways, which is

Among the removed abstract words: courage, wisdom, mercy, loyalty, greed, fate, revenge, and honesty... Abstract, yes, yet carrying emotions grounded

Bread survived both lists. Flour, wheat, harvest and bake didn’t. The word for what sustains us remained essential, while the words for how we’d make

great strategy is more about facilitation than it is about creation. It’s the process of unearthing what is true for an organization, matching that wi

‘exploratory social science’.

the idea of an important conversation that helped bring me home.

i’m tired and my window to the world has no curtains