Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Imagining is a rigorous discipline. Imagination is our greatest national resource, one that drives value creation across the sciences, the humanities, the arts, and business. All compelling entrepreneurial ventures, transformative social movements, and technological breakthroughs begin with an inspired sense of possibility.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Points lack context. And that's exactly the problem with zero-dimensional history: a true point contains very little data.
Étienne Fortier-Dubois • History in the Space-Time Continuum
Easier, then, to strip the art of these larger contexts and references from the art, which conveniently also makes it easier to sell.
Jessa Crispin • Culture, Digested: The Worst Book I Read This Year Culture, Digested: The Worst Book I Read This Year
Influencers, now a slowly fading cliché in the Internet’s tableau vivant, found success articulating the cult of personality, and marketing themselves as direct-to-consumer-goods. The shift away from this algorithmic surrender can be traced to the macro and micro “creator economies” spawned by the likes of Patreon, Substack, OnlyFans and even... See more
Eileen Isagon Skyers • Dirt: Are we post-platform?
Magic Color Picker
text2color.comFairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Humans are social creatures—cooperative and interdependent almost by biological definition. So if it’s not actually natural to our species to be self-sufficient, why is it considered aspirational?
Haley Nahman • #96: Why Do We Aspire to Live Alone?
Resilience requires a kind of elasticity, an ability to stretch and reach but then to return, to spring back into a former shape—or perhaps to shapeshift into something new if the circumstances require it. Resilience is stretchy where optimization is brittle; resilience invites change where optimization demands continuity. But whether we’re talking
... See moreMandy Brown • Against Optimization
Even though we have attained a level of material abundance that would astonish our ancestors, we seem to have less and less time for what really matters: strengthening the bonds of love that sustain a civilization. Loving