Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
For so many people, this lack of options — this coercion to care — breeds intense resentment of a role that, when chosen of one’s own volition, might feel incredibly satisfying.
Anne Helen Petersen • Forced to Care
Interdependence offered a route that honored the care of the self alongside the care of others and showed how those two are actually in loving relationship.
Katja Vujić • Is Somewhere Good the Future of Social Media?
It’s not that we should be wary of stories themselves; rather, we should be wary of losing ourselves inside them. We need to acknowledge how stories can become tidal waves that overpower us and swallow us whole. We can become the characters that others assign to us, unwittingly performing a role that constrains our self-aware choices. Without
... See moreSeth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
When we say that changes only have to occur on the level of big policy and systems, we leave out the significance of public participation and the fact that how we each live our lives is part of a greater whole.
Mold • Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
Spotify optimised for engagement and brand love without considering how their model would teach an entire generation that intimate behavioural tracking should feel like birthday presents. They didn't just create marketing content - they normalised surveillance capitalism as self-care.
zoe scaman • The Work
Esther Perel Thinks All This Amateur Therapy-Speak Is Just Making Us Lonelier
Delia Caivanityfair.comprecarity, fear, competition, and ruthless self-optimization direct us away from the sort of solidarity and small and large sacrifice and patience that would enact change. And so we flounder, eager and anxious, wondering what it will take to actually act .
Anne Helen Petersen • Themes of a Year
The idea doesn't have to be good, and it doesn't have to be feasible, it just needs to be the best incredibly concrete plan that you can come up with at the moment. Don't worry, it will change rapidly when you start slamming it into reality. The important thing is to come up with a concrete plan, and then start executing it as hard as you can —... See more
Nate Soares • Dive in
So as I approach the mystery of telling these stories again, the uncertainty of working into my mythmaking, I wonder if we could do something similar with our own narratives. What are we bored by, what needs to stay buried? What deserves to be re-imagined, re-seeded, re-beheld? That’s where the joyful work is. I’m handing you a spade.