Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
How do we learn to harness the power and wisdom of pleasure, rather than trying to erase the body, the erotic, the connective tissue from society?
How would we organize and move our communities if we shifted to focus on what we long for and love rather than what we are negatively reacting to?
brown, adrienne maree; Rodriguez; Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi • Pleasure Activism
lore is working knowledge that knows its own limits.
Venkatesh Rao • Epics vs. Lore
Plato believed that it was essential for them to guide human societies. His entire political philosophy revolves around the need to aspire towards ideals, and so to uphold universal standards of beauty, bodily health, and all-round excellence or arete.
the critic • The death of Ideals
What interested me was the way that different subcultures and brands were feeding off one another. Lifestyle brands and DTC needed to draw on these subcultural elements—they needed to be the products people buy in order to participate. And in the other direction, product imagery was beginning to play an important role in subcultural formation. In
... See moreToby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
What's something readers can do to improve themselves after reading your book? Make sure they're constantly hunting for match quality, which is the term economists use for the degree of fit between an individual's abilities and interests and the work they do. It turns out to be incredibly important for one's sense of fulfillment and for... See more
Alex Hickey • A Conversation With "Range" Author David Epstein
But these tasks of meaning making require the small town, precisely, not to change too fast. Meanwhile, we demand that such places upend their entire local economy as soon as their fragile node in the regional economy is disrupted, often by some far-off decision over which the town had no control. It’s impossible. A place will certainly be grumpy... See more
phil christman • Small-Town USA
And yet what they offer is not simply a fantasy of wealth itself. It is the fantasy of a well-lived life — the sense of having reached a place of power and inhabiting it comfortably. In a landscape where women their age are portrayed as either powerless and pitiful or powerful and despised, this feels revelatory.
New York Times • The Rise of the Over-50 Fashion Mentors (Published 2022)
A value system is fostered through storytelling and negotiation in forums of public discourse.
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
Life has been busy, and in the general rush of things, these vital fragments of my identity have been squeezed out. I have missed them, but in a shrugging kind of way. What can you do when you’re already doing everything?