Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
“I have come to see the profound value of taking in the whole landscape of life and not rejecting or denying what we are given. I have also learned that our waywardness, difficulties, and 'crises' might not be terminal obstacles. They can actually be gateways to wider, richer internal and external landscapes. If we willingly investigate our... See more
Dan Shipper / Superorganizers • You Grow from Your Edges
In separating the different lines of causality, the attention is fragmented, leading to a multitude of mixups and follow up action plans.
Not only is the assignment of causation fragmented, but the issue itself is often cut from its nest of contextual entangling and isolated.
The responsibility for health is perceived to be located in the health
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Imagination and
in a country where childcare costs over £7,000 a year, for just a part-time nursery place. It’s little wonder that we have turned to frivolous spending on a micro level (termed ‘treat brain’) we can afford. So, yes, that means our bottomless brunches and trips to Ibiza and online shopping binges. Let us blow what we can, on what we can.
marie-claire chappet • ‘What’s the point?’ syndrome, and why we all feel so disconnected right now
We should be optimistic not because our problems are smaller than we thought, but because our capacity to solve them is larger than we thought.
Kevin Kelly • 💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
Optimism and
Stories are not just things that we tell as individuals. Communities can tell stories too. And it is when communities come together to start telling new stories about what their future could be that I start to get really excited. It is something that many Transition groups around the world do – bring people together to facilitate a collective
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
emotion and
We need bubbliness. We need excitement. We need new ideas. And it’s not that I have any idea what the outcome needs to be. I just know that we can’t keep on doing what we’ve been doing. That we need to shift. We need to adapt because our circumstances are adapting. This is another way in which the metaphor of fermentation really is powerful because... See more
Sandor Katz • Fermentation as Metaphor
social-media platforms now create this real distance, in part by being text-heavy. And that distance can lead you to say things or do things you’d never do in the physical world. It also lowers the bar for engagement, which means that firing off a shitty tweet is easy and people do it without thinking. But there’s so much engagement and visibility... See more