Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
There are investments you can’t make from a structured, nine-to-five, narrowly teleological environment. You have to let your life go fallow sometimes, like a crop rotation giving the land time to bring forth new fertility. This is actually a consequence of a fairly general theorem about how to find treasure in complex search spaces: The best... See more
palladiummag.com • Quit Your Job
possibility beliefs , for the purposes of this paper, are simply beliefs about our actions and their limits; they help us enumerate options and carve out pathways for action.
Tamar Kushnir • How Children Learn to Transcend Limits: Developmental Pathways to Possibility Beliefs
When you have groups of people who are especially tenacious and especially creative, magic happens.
Alexandr Wang • Betting on Unknown Unknowns - by Alexandr Wang Betting on Unknown Unknowns
there is a difference between destigmatizing mental-health problems and popularizing them to the point that millions of young people are searching their normal feelings for signs of disorders.
Work in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
The deep knowledge about a place is most likely held by farmers and engaged locals. But it is not likely to be in a form demanded by policymakers to substantiate calls for spending. It’s not just about quantifying, it’s about qualitative data of the kind that amounts to a form of collective intelligence.”
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #84
Part of manifestation, I was learning, essentially involved looking on the extreme bright side of everything. After all, once you believe events are the direct result of your manifestations, then the logic follows that even negative consequences must be the result of them, too – and therefore must actually be positive.
Stuart McGurk • Making dreams come true: inside the new age world of manifesting
Minds and societies defined by diversity and dialogue are, consequently, open to new possibilities in ways that monological, fixated, and totalitarian worlds and mindsets are not.
Vlad P. Glăveanu • Possibility Studies: A Manifesto
When you are working on diversity, equity, and inclusion, what you are really trying to get to is a feeling – the feeling of belonging.
Stanford Engineering Staff • Design to make a difference: How do we foster a culture of belonging?
By design, the interface—coupled with the nature of voice memos—causes you to slow down and listen to other people as they unpack their thoughts as mini monologues. It’s an experience that works at a beta scale, consisting of a small, curated group of testers. And to scale it up will naturally invite more problems