Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
“If you are uncomfortable—in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused —you don’t have a problem, you have a life. Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.” – Glennon Doyle
Rather, the new territory of the future is described by philosophers as “plastic” or “liquid,” shapelessly shifting as each disruptive innovation or abandoned certitude washes away whatever fleeting sense of meaning that was only just embraced. A kind of foreboding of the times that have not yet arrived, a wariness about what’s next, settles in.
Nathan Gardels • The Perils Of Smashing The Past
What would it look like to have an online platform that is about meaningful connection, that is also about putting marginalized people first and not treating them as an afterthought?
Katja Vujić • Is Somewhere Good the Future of Social Media?
Science, I believe, consists of the search for similarities among things that are apparently different; the humanities consist of the search for differences among things that are apparently similar. Science and the humanities are the head and tail of reality—viewable separately, but not separable. It is for this reason that I have come to refer to... See more
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
to sustain this solidarity economy the squad may look for ways to translate vibes into monetizable modes of public engagement
otherinter.net • Squad Wealth
Both kinds of optimism alert individuals to fresh opportunities and to the resources needed to pursue goals. Where pessimists may avoid problems, optimists cope and solve. They are specially productive because optimists are more likely to reach out for help, to collaborate and trust others. That gives them more capacity and resilience than they
... See moreMargaret Heffernan • Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future
Dunning called this effect ‘the anosognosia of everyday life’, referring to a neurological condition in which a disabled person either denies or seems unaware of their disability. He stated: ‘If you’re incompetent, you can’t know you’re incompetent … The skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Put it all together—diagnostic inflation in medicine; prevalence inflation in media; negativity inflation in news—and one gets the distinct sense that Americans might be making themselves sick with pessimism, anxiety, and gloom. But that’s not all. Just as the U.S. has long been the global economy’s chief cultural exporter—from Coca-Cola to Mickey
... See moreWork in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
highly flexible, participatory brand system