Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Our emotional experience of a place is never the true, actual reality, but that doesn’t mean those feelings don’t matter.
I’m not out here to shame anybody who is more fatalistic, who feels the call to ring alarm bells, to shout the direness of this moment from the rooftops. That’s an important part of social change. Alarm bells don’t ring... See more
I’m not out here to shame anybody who is more fatalistic, who feels the call to ring alarm bells, to shout the direness of this moment from the rooftops. That’s an important part of social change. Alarm bells don’t ring... See more
garrett bucks • The greatest saints in the world
Vulnerability in writing is a precision tool. The process of spilling your guts isn’t vulnerability—it’s purgation. (Still useful, from an emotional perspective! But not necessarily in the service of art.) So maybe what we actually need is a better word than vulnerability to describe the specific kind of peephole we open up in personal... See more
Jess Zimmerman • A Cow with a Hole in It
what happens to a feeling that has no word? It doesn’t disappear, but it becomes invisible. And when it can’t be expressed, it opens a distance between me and everything around me.
Anna Branten • The Collapse of Communication
as long as we build our groups like machines - with interchangeable parts, standardised processes, and measurable outcomes - we will continue to feel lonely, even among people who understand us.
We have built our lives like grids, not like trees. We wear our roles like uniforms - not as chosen expressions, but as inherited ones. And when we try to
... See moreAnna Branten • We Were Never Meant to Be Complete
An example: J.R.R. Tolkien, Adolf Hitler, and Anne Frank's father participated in the same World War I battle in 1916. Those facts are surprising because they join together what we usually think of as distinct narratives. Put another way: There's a Wikipedia list of Roman emperors. There's a Wikipedia list of Chinese emperors. But there's no... See more
Étienne Fortier-Dubois • History in the Space-Time Continuum
the New England village, in literary depictions, can have some of the wildness, the unpredictability, of country life. It can be strange, not simply flat.
phil christman • Small-Town USA
Most of us really have very little say in the diagnoses we get, even though we all carry a lot of self-knowledge about our bodies and minds. You see the impacts of this a lot when it comes to mental health and neurodivergence: people fighting for years for their autism or ADHD diagnosis, or trying to get an eating disorder diagnosis despite their
... See moreDazed • This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy
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