Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
to be helpful futuring, your imagination should be disciplined.
Ideally your imagined future would have a history. Whatever happens has to happen one-step at a time. So for every new technology or cultural innovation there needs to be versions that are economically viable one step at a time.
the game for the futurist is to try and imagine what led to... See more
Ideally your imagined future would have a history. Whatever happens has to happen one-step at a time. So for every new technology or cultural innovation there needs to be versions that are economically viable one step at a time.
the game for the futurist is to try and imagine what led to... See more
Kevin Kelly • How to Future
Advice for people who want to do something big, interesting, or important, but who utterly lack the ability to commit themselves to a particular action (because they can't convince themselves it's worth doing):
Nate Soares • Dive in
when free speech was a perilous exercise, and when to declaim against vice and folly was to court personal risk, the fable was invented, or resorted to, by the moralist as a circuitous method of achieving the end he desired to reach—the
Thomas Newbigging • Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern
The ideas that travel furthest are the ones that find companions, partner ideas with which they resonate.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
For you, a respite of uncontainability.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles
How do we learn to do things better if we’re so cautious about harm that we are afraid to try new things? It’s impossible to learn how to do things better without feedback loops connecting hypothesis and action to outcomes and, one hopes, insights about what has worked and what has not.
Patrick Tanguay • Conscientious Urban Technology
In addition to identifying the emotion you're feeling, the Feelings Wheel can also help you identify the opposite emotion . The opposite emotion is located on the exact opposite side of the wheel and can give you information about what emotion might help you at any given moment. For example, if you're feeling powerless, the opposite emotion might
... See moreInsights of a Neurodivergent Clinician • Emotional Identification: 5 Proven Activities for Better Emotional Literacy
Alison Roman: “It’s well-emulsified, it’s perfectly salted, it’s deeply roasted, it’s the right texture, it’s not too expensive, it’s just good. And it doesn’t claim to be anything. It’s not, like, pushing a story or narrative on you. It’s just, ‘We’re peanut butter.’”
Blackbird Spyplane • Everyone's Disrupting and It's Exhausting
**THE CLUB AS A LIFESTYLE PLATFORM: IT’S BIGGER THAN BRAT
**Bushwick circa 2022 onward is one of the most meme’d lifestyles, identities and ‘vibes’ that New York City has produced. The growing crop of club venues even amidst record rent raises demonstrate an urgent appetite for community, connection, and escapism that has emerged from that year or
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